In the current cattle market, yes. It wasn't too many years ago ranchers were making more from hunting than ranching cattle.

2nd time I've heard this in a week, I think my buddy said they were hackberry leaves he watched deer eat all morning...

I'm on the 2nd year of owning my place. I've had several people want to graze it. I am under a wildlife management plan to keep the taxes down. As long as I have this I see no cattle grazing in our future. Especially not during the hunting season.

Man I can relate to this..... I used to have one brown cow come right up to the blind everytime... turn his big head and stick one eye in the blind.....I could almost hear him say... " I can see you"

Just leave the gate open next time. Problem solved.

Man can I ever relate to THIS.... I swear they come to wherever I am... regardless of where I park or sneak in... I had one big brown cow always walk straight up to the blind... turn his head and put his eye right up in the window.... I could almost hear him say " I CAN SEE YOU IN THERE"

How do you know?

because cows suck.

Because deer hunting is more important to me than grazing lease money. All worked out anyway because it makes hay now.

I have cattle---there is no way you can't build a sturdy pen to keep the cattle out. Heck, build the pen and weave barb wire or razor wire along the top. A bag of cubes is $6; if you don't hunt much, then spread in a line in the grass, a long distance. You could go broke if you hunt a lot.

Leased yes retained, the averages go to cattle

Like others have said a feed pen and feed them something by the front gate.

No cattle on our place since we bought it, but the intent is to get some when we get fences cleaned up enough and hopefully the old man is retired. It would be nice to have something to eat the grass... it can be a pain in the azz from time to time!

This is from a dry summer, in a wet year I'm 6-foot and it will be over my head.

There you go thinking outside the box.

Good grazing management is the difference between cattle being a pest or a tool to help manage hunting land. Cattle can help optimize deer hunting if managed properly, on quail pasture they can make the difference between sustainable populations and none. Livestock are crucial to managing land and greatly beneficial when done properly.

Passive cattle grazing with poor management mixed with a hunter who is spending money on corn and protein is a bad recipe. Cows are dumb but when soemone shows up with a pile of food in a truck every week they are going to show up if they are hungry. They are also creature of habitat once they get on a feeder its twice as much work to get them off. Try and find quality leasers, who won't overstock, who don''t starve cows, and understand managing grassland not just pillaging it.

T-post and 3 strands of barb wire.

Some of y'all didn't read the OP. A feeder pen won't solve my issue. They follow me all over the property. My feeder isn't even working right now and there were 14 cows in front of my blind last night.

Guess feeder pens only work in certain parts of the country.

Your problem is 14 - 20 cows on 100 acres, they expect every human they see to feed them.
IMO, too many head on too few acres.

If you feed them to lure them somewhere else / out of your way, they will associate you with food and never stop pestering you.

Pen wouldn't solve my issue either. My issue is I don't want them on my place period. I don't want their crap, their tracks, their trails, their wallow holes, their bawling, their smell ....... in short, their presence.

Or sheep or goats or anything else.

ezzackly

did you see your brother in the virgina 8pt thread?

For the third time, my issue isn't that they are eating my corn. It's that they are in my way. They aren't eating my corn.

Hunt out of a head gate blind.

This place is frustrating that way.