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Yard deer

Postby wawhitey » 10 28, 2024 •  [Post 1]

I know a lot of us have them. My old favorite, "buckles" only one i ever named, died several years back. She was really as tame as a wild animal gets. Shed hear me chopping firewood and come out of the timber and lay down next to me. This old girl here, has to be 12+, when i first bought this house 10 years ago she would have nothing to do with me. She warmed up after a couple years. Shes been coming around mooching a lot lately. More than normal. Maybe shes just old and wants easy food. She just scarfed down a pretty big pile of mixed nuts ater accosting me while i was sitting on my porch. Getting pretty demanding, but still polite i guess.
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Re: Yard deer

Postby 7mmfan » 10 28, 2024 •  [Post 2]

We have a neighborhood blacktail doe with a fawn. If we leave our side gate open she'll come in thr backyard and eat our flowers. She isn't particularly tame, she keeps her distance, but is nice having them around.
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Re: Yard deer

Postby wawhitey » 10 28, 2024 •  [Post 3]

Tgis old girl will purposefully approach me. Almost aggressively. She knows ima sucker, and ill go inside and find something tasty for her. If she sees me outside, shes coming straight in, maintaining eye contact, until i make with the snacks.
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Re: Yard deer

Postby wawhitey » 10 28, 2024 •  [Post 4]

Pic of her with her little piglet, scarfing carrots a few feet from my porch a couple years ago.
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Re: Yard deer

Postby wawhitey » 10 28, 2024 •  [Post 5]

I want to see pics of other peoples yard deer, or yard coons et. I cant be the only sucker making friends with these beggars.
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Re: Yard deer

Postby 7mmfan » 10 28, 2024 •  [Post 6]

I've got one somewhere. I'll try and find it
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Re: Yard deer

Postby saddlesore » 10 29, 2024 •  [Post 7]

I was out hunting deer Saturday, 70 miles away and came home to three deer in the yard.
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Re: Yard deer

Postby >>>---WW----> » 10 29, 2024 •  [Post 8]

I had a friend I used to work with several years ago that had a young yearling mule deer doe that hung around his place. She got so tame that if he left the front door open, she would come in the house and eat candy out of a dish on the coffee table in the living room. He brought pictures to work one time just to prove it.
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Re: Yard deer

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Re: Yard deer

Postby wawhitey » 10 29, 2024 •  [Post 10]

saddlesore wrote:I was out hunting deer Saturday, 70 miles away and came home to three deer in the yard.



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Re: Yard deer

Postby wawhitey » 10 29, 2024 •  [Post 11]

My little piggy is back. Chowin down right now about 5 yards from me as i sit on the porch. Hazlenuts, black walnuts, pine nuts, cashews. All unsalted but she doesnt seem to mind one bit. Plenty of salt for her on the property.
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Re: Yard deer

Postby Indian Summer » 10 30, 2024 •  [Post 12]

Pittsburgh city bucks get big!
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Re: Yard deer

Postby Lefty » 10 30, 2024 •  [Post 13]

My guess is the old girl likes you because you popped a cougar in her home range.

My daughter was living at south end of Pocatello when their house was up for sale I was parked in my truck and a doing too fawns literally pushed against my open truck door to squeeze between the truck door and the for sale sign.
Off on a 30-in buck would lay underneath in the shade of a neighbor's deck
And now where she's at up Make Creek there's a dill that had triplets a few years ago
They still hang around quite a bit
Before she put chickens and ducks in the shed a couple of does and their fawns would often go in there to where it was nice and cool
You have now ins
pired me to catch a coyote in my pasture again

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