Hunting near cows. Do deer avoid them??
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Hunting near cows. Do deer avoid them??
I know most would say no. The deer have to be used to them and know that they're not a threat. But I could swear everytime the cows (big, black angus) are in the fields, the deer seem to avoid the area like the black plague! Just a coincidence?
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RE: Hunting near cows. Do deer avoid them??
The deer prefer to keep their distance from nearly everything. They seem to be a little intimidated by the size of cattle, but they seem to know cattle are usually harmless as long as their personal space is not invaded. Deer give them plenty of room, but cattle in an area doesn't mean the deer aren't close by.I seem them grazing many of the larger fields around here at the same time, with the deer on one area and the cattle on the other.
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RE: Hunting near cows. Do deer avoid them??
This one farm I was hunting in Alberta this past season hadmany cattle and the deer would feed with the cattle. I saw two differant bucks leave a pasturethat had lots of cows (Whitefaced Herfords) at first light one morning. The farmer said they feed togeather often. They do give the cows room.
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RE: Hunting near cows. Do deer avoid them??
As others have said, deer are easily spooked by other animals. I have seen deer feeding fairly close to cattle, but theywill normally keep their distance!When cattle graze through an area, the noise alone may spook deer!Deer are SO wary, that most of the time when they hear noise, they will run first, andsee what was making the noise later!
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Fork Horn
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Millersville, Md
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RE: Hunting near cows. Do deer avoid them??
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This one farm I was hunting in Alberta this past season hadmany cattle and the deer would feed with the cattle. I saw two differant bucks leave a pasturethat had lots of cows (Whitefaced Herfords) at first light one morning. The farmer said they feed togeather often. They do give the cows room.
This one farm I was hunting in Alberta this past season hadmany cattle and the deer would feed with the cattle. I saw two differant bucks leave a pasturethat had lots of cows (Whitefaced Herfords) at first light one morning. The farmer said they feed togeather often. They do give the cows room.
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RE: Hunting near cows. Do deer avoid them??
ORIGINAL: early in
This one farm I was hunting in Alberta this past season hadmany cattle and the deer would feed with the cattle. I saw two differant bucks leave a pasturethat had lots of cows (Whitefaced Herfords) at first light one morning. The farmer said they feed togeather often. They do give the cows room.
This one farm I was hunting in Alberta this past season hadmany cattle and the deer would feed with the cattle. I saw two differant bucks leave a pasturethat had lots of cows (Whitefaced Herfords) at first light one morning. The farmer said they feed togeather often. They do give the cows room.
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Vermont
Posts: 36
RE: Hunting near cows. Do deer avoid them??
When I was growing up in northeastern Vermont, I lived on a farm part of the time. We had a small herd of milk cows and turned them out in a small pasture at night in the summer. Some times when we went to get the cows in around 4AM, there would be a few deer around them. Sometimes bedded down with the cows.
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RE: Hunting near cows. Do deer avoid them??
Ihunt right beside side a cow pasture ad i normally see 10 deer everytime i go hunting in that cow pasture. I dont think that the cows bother them that much
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RE: Hunting near cows. Do deer avoid them??
I went out with a guy in our camp & picked a spot for his new giant ladder stand. Everything looked good. Trails, prints, droppings, etc.
So he goes out in the morning and is really enjoying this giant stand. He starts hearing sounds behind him at first light and gets excited. Then he sees that it's cows! He said, "I thought right then and there - this stand is a bust! There'll be no deer with those cows here, moooving around." (I had told him that where he was seeing the cows was where deer come thru.)
He deceides to mooove somewhere else so he lowers his gear down, unstraps and starts down when he has a group of deer go running away from the cows!
So I don't think those deer give a hoot about the cows.
So he goes out in the morning and is really enjoying this giant stand. He starts hearing sounds behind him at first light and gets excited. Then he sees that it's cows! He said, "I thought right then and there - this stand is a bust! There'll be no deer with those cows here, moooving around." (I had told him that where he was seeing the cows was where deer come thru.)
He deceides to mooove somewhere else so he lowers his gear down, unstraps and starts down when he has a group of deer go running away from the cows!
So I don't think those deer give a hoot about the cows.