Jena and Jodee Prepare the Food Plots

While I filled the deer feeders, patched fences and re-worked gates so that our sheep could not get out of the pasture my wife, Jena, did a bang up job of plowing the food plots on the place.  Last year we bought a 1986 28 horsepower John Deere tractor and fixed it up.  We put a new seat on it and touched up all the paint.  Jena named it Jodee and we use her all the time at the place.  She is not very big but gets the job done even if it takes a while to do anything. We will be planting oats, rye grass, turnips and clover for the sheep and deer to graze on this winter.  The plots look pretty good and we at least got the oats and rye grass seeded today.  We will plant the others later this week and drag the surface to cover the seed.  Now if it will just rain we might grow some food for the livestock and wildlife this year.  Wild Ed

 

Visitors to the Wildlife Feeders

 As the heat of summer goes on with very little rain we have been making sure the wildlife water troughs stay working and that we have kept corn, bird seed and protein pellets in the feeders for the wildlife.  Many are having a hard time making a living in this drought and heat.  The supplemental water and feed seem to have made a big difference in the numbers we have been seeing this year.  Last summer we found a lot of dead deer and other wildlife and this year so far only one deer and one fox that appear to have died from the drought.  My brother and I have become addicted to the game camera pictures and get impatient waiting to see the visitors we have had to our feeders each week.  The really cool thing is you never know what will show up on camera.  I thought you guys might enjoy seeing some of the wildlife from our part of the world in Lampasas County.  If you have some unique or unusual wildlife camera pictures email them to me and I will post some of the best ones in the future, Wild Ed

 

 

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