I have some property behind my house that backs up to probally 300+ acres and I hunt the property behind my house. I have a 10x40 yard small plot with corn that I also feed my deer. (It is legal to bait here where I am) The problem is that I have my trail camera out there and I keep getting the same deer. 2 smalls buck and 3 or 4 does . The does come in packs of 2 and have beeen together a few times. None of these does have fawns and I have put my camera on different spots of the property and only have pictures of those does. How can I increase the herd behind my house while still hunting? Someone please help me out, Im kind of new to all this.

How long have you hunted the property? Did you harvest any this year?

The deer will eventually find the food, and as long as you keep the food there, the deer will remember and start bringing friends!

Try not to scent the place up too much either.

If the folks that own the 300 acres are doing stuff to attract deer too it would make sense that you arent getting much travel by them on your land.

No its a Developer that owns it all but there not really developing much on my side. They eat my food but its the same deer. Also I've got a doe and and small spike down there. Thought he was a big doe.

But those were the 2 I shot this year

Do you have water on your ground versus what is on the surrounding ground.

I have a creek that runs behind the property about 250 yards back in some thick thick stuff. Down here in Florida nothing is dead so I think they get most of there water out of the browse and alive plants that they are eating considering all living plants have lots of water so I don't think they visit water much. Just my thought not really sure though.

The Doe's on your place should have some Fawns come this Spring/Summer of 2010,then you could shoot the biggest Doe or don't shoot any Does at all and evenually you'll have Bucks come in during the rut!We have passed on shooting any Deer off our Farm the past 3 years because we had the EHD disease from the drought back in 2006 and the Deer have really thinned out considerably so we have hunted more on other property the past few years and have slowly started hunting a little more here on the Farm but have passed on the smaller Bucks and have been trying to harvest only 8-Points or better Bucks.

If I have say 5 does on the property how many do you think will be bread? And also can a buck bread a yearling or a doe that was born this past spring??>

If you have to shot does, don't shot the biggest ones.
It goes the same for the bucks. Leave the biggest ones if you can. They are most likely be the most healthy and vigorous ones. When you start seeing twins you know you're doing something right. One healthy buck will breed all the does that are in heat.
The biggest does are the ones that gets bred first so their offspring gets an early start and are usually bigger by fall.