Will deer graze with horses
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Will deer graze with horses
Am hunting a horse boarding farm, I have not seen it happen yet but wondering if deer will graze on clover, mineral blocks, etc. with horses nearby...has anyone ever seen this occurring? At this farm, I don't see a lot of deer tracks in the areas where the horses are but maybe because ground is hard when I have checked.
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Re: Will deer graze with horses
I hunt a horse farm and it seems that the deer will generally avoid the areas that are used by the horses. Atleast during daylight.
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Re: Will deer graze with horses
They stay away from the horses at my sisters place.
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Re: Will deer graze with horses
It seems like deer avoid cattle and horses to some degree. They won't avoid them like humans but generally give a wide birth.
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Stanley wrote:It seems like deer avoid cattle and horses to some degree. They won't avoid them like humans but generally give a wide birth.
Same as my observations.
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I've seen deer in a horse pasture with horses 1 time in my life, so I'm guessing they don't feed with them much because I can still remember when, where and what time of the year it was when I saw it. I do like hunting pastures though, they just need to be vacant of livestock for about 10 or 15 years and overgrown.
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A friend of mine has horses and they get irritated when they see and smell deer. It’s the only time I have ever heard a horse snort like a deer. We sometimes go on trial rides and we can always tell when the horses smell a deer. So for some reason deer and horses keep their distance from one another, maybe its competition for the same food sources because sometimes you will see them on opposite sides of a field.
Neighbors of mine have cattle, I never see deer mixed with them, and they rotate the cattle between fields. Years ago they had this goat that just moved around the farm, he would jump fences and just go where he wanted. I would sometimes see the goat and a small buck out in the open field away from the cattle. I didn’t know what to think, only that it was odd.
Neighbors of mine have cattle, I never see deer mixed with them, and they rotate the cattle between fields. Years ago they had this goat that just moved around the farm, he would jump fences and just go where he wanted. I would sometimes see the goat and a small buck out in the open field away from the cattle. I didn’t know what to think, only that it was odd.
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Out west Ive seen mule deer with horses in the same field, opposite sides.
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Re: Will deer graze with horses
ive seen em in the same pasture but usually far away from each other.
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oldrank wrote:ive seen em in the same pasture but usually far away from each other.
I see plenty of deer in horse pastures but rarely within 100 yards of each other.
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Deer move through our horse pasture routinely, but for the most part I have never seen them close to one another. I had to move the salt block into the barn to keep the deer from eating it all.
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Re: Will deer graze with horses
Deer and horses do not get along. Cows and deer tolerate each other a little more but still keep to themselves. I own a 10 acre horse pasture that has deer go through it...when there are no horses there.
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