{"id":9746,"date":"2023-01-06T10:51:20","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T15:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=9746"},"modified":"2023-01-06T10:51:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T15:51:20","slug":"the-winters-getting-tough-on-the-deer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2023\/01\/06\/the-winters-getting-tough-on-the-deer\/","title":{"rendered":"The winter’s getting tough on the deer"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we now have nearly three feet of snow on the ground, with two feet of that having come as heavy, wet snow, which quickly froze, the poor deer are having a hard time getting around to find food to eat. It reminds us of the winter, several years ago, with similar conditions. The deer were actually dying of starvation. We fed our herd all winter, but it was in early spring before the DNR decided to begin a feeding program. And that was too late, as the herds had already passed the point of no return, health wise. We lost thousands of deer. I hope, this year, things won’t get so dire. But we will continue to feed our deer (yes, it is legal here, only not at hunting season), hoping to see lots of twin fawns around, come spring. We don’t hunt anymore; we have plenty of domestic beef. But we do enjoy having them around. (Just not in the gardens!)<\/p>\n

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The deer are increasing at our feeding area. We started with one!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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We can plow snow and blow snow, like I’m doing here. But the deer have to wade through, breaking tough crusts and falling through.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’m having my right knee replaced on January 17th, so am trying to get all my ducks in a row before the surgery. I’ll be doing a lot of rehab afterward and want to make things go as well as possible. The doctor said after 6 weeks, if all goes well, he can do the other knee. I can’t even imagine walking, relatively pain free. Luckily, I have family and friends to help out, taking up the slack, until I get recovered. Thank God.<\/p>\n

I don’t know about you, but between the rocky economy, prices rising daily in the stores and the surge of deadly COVID again in China, we’re especially taking care to watch our supply of both foods and supplies we’ve stocked up. I figure it’s better to have too much than too little! Also, please pray for all the folks, across the country, who are in trouble with floods, tornadoes, etc. We’re so fortunate to live where we don’t have any of those problems to deal with. Snow, you can always move; a wood fire always makes you warm. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we now have nearly three feet of snow on the ground, with two feet of that having come as heavy, wet snow, which quickly froze, the poor deer are having a hard time getting around to find food to eat. It reminds us of the winter, several years ago, with similar conditions. The deer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,13,17,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9749,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9746\/revisions\/9749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}