Double Deer Dilemma
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- In this week's show we're seeing just how tricky a farmer's relationship with deer can be. Andy Crow has to decide what to do with a 2 hour old fawn he finds in his wheat crop. Then there's the issue of crop damage and how easy it is to get permission to shoot deer out of season.
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Why shoot deer?
There are more than two million red, roe, fallow, sika, muntjac and Chinese water deer in Britain’s countryside and semi-urban areas, the highest level for 1,000 years. Numbers have doubled since 1999, according to the Deer Initiative, the UK government’s deer agency.
Deer are an attractive and an important part of our wildlife. However, they have no natural predator in the UK so numbers must be sensibly and strategically managed to keep them in balance with their habitat and to prevent damage to crops, trees, woodland flora, gardens and other wildlife.
Deer cause £4.5 million-worth (Forestry Commission Scotland) of damage to plantations and other commercial woodlands in Scotland. Crop damage is estimated at £4.3m a year according to DEFRA, with the greatest damage on cereal crops in east and south-west England.
More than 8,000 hectares (Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology) of woodland with SSI status is currently in ‘unfavourable’ or ‘recovering’ condition due to deer impacts such as browsing and fraying. Deer can also influence the variety of wildlife in woodlands and other habitats by altering structural and plant species diversity. According to the University of East Anglia’s Dr Paul Dolman, that has resulted in a 50% decline in woodland bird numbers where deer are present, impacting particularly on nightingales, blackcaps, chiffchaffs and warblers.
Deer are susceptible to Bovine TB and may be responsible for the transmission of TB to cattle. They are also the likely driver behind the UK’s increasing tick population (Scharlemann et al 2008).
Happily, venison is a delicious meat. It is wild, natural and free range, and - almost fat-free - it is one of the healthiest meats available today. Results from research commissioned by the Game-to-Eat campaign (Leatherhead Food International Research 2006) suggest that there are real health benefits to eating game. Venison is high in protein, low in saturated fatty acids and contains higher levels of iron than any other red meat.
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Im 16 live rurally and have more urban friends who disagree with me shooting rabbit causing a nuisance to local agriculture, they say its 'murder' when i say its culling. This video really enlightened the need of culling and it also puts the antis in the boots of the modern day farmer who has to deal with the complications or culling, Andy really didn't seem too keen on shooting out of season deer, i think his consideration and respect of the season is an aspect antis should identify and acknowledge.
Great work
Amazing any good person would do the same well done mr crow
Well done Mr. Crow.
Well done on both the sides, you can see the side in controlling the damage, and I as a hunter I see the side of the young fawn been saved from the foxes, as to what happens to The fawn / deer at a later stage, thats another story but enjoyed the video report.
Respect to Andy ,Thats all i can say.
Why are field sports Britain videos so short nowadays?
Hi - uploading the big programmes took too long - rural boradband wasn't working for us - so we are now doing each show as a playlist instead. Have a look at @fieldsportsbritain240
/ Charlie
because they took the 30 min episode and now each segment of an episode is video joined in a playlist, problem is the entrance into the playlist is so fucking hard to find and nearly not worth the time looking for it.
bavariasuhl I think it's theer problem with the broadband distributor, not their fault unfortunately.
Point of fact. Upwards of 45% percent of fawns die due to predation says the decade run study performed by graduate students in my locality.
Point of fact. Strange scents do not cause maternal abandonment. We know this because the fawns were tracked with collars put on by human hands.
I fear Andy has definitely made the wrong decision here.
Collars on fawns would be limited contact, but when they are covered in spray completely masking its scent from its mother is another matter.
Well done on your study, but perhaps you need to widen your scope to encompass all things that could and does interact with these and all wildlife, It's not as easy as reading a few books, yes you gain knowledge but nothing trumps being in amongst it, living it, if you get jobs in this area you will know this after many years of being in the field. good luck.
hunter100t
Point of fact: Newborn fawns don't have a scent.
Of coarse they do, how do you think all those fawns taken by foxe's and the like hone in them, my god i can't believe i have to explain this to a so called "graduate student " that gives the impression they can teach us all, it's laughable !
Your sounding more and more like a petulant know all teenager thats been nowhere done nothing, but point of fact lol, has read a few books and sat in lectures and listened to some fool that likes to walk in the great out doors with a pair of bino's swinging round their neck, and only a few short years earlier read the same books as you lol.
So dont come on here and embarrass yourself any further untill you have gained real knowledge on the subject and can converse with the grown ups that have put the years in, have specialist knowledge, and realy do know what they are talking about.
This conversation is at an end, their will be no more from me to you, your answers are flipent and boring, FACT !
hunter100t
I'm not a graduate student. But I did participate in the study. Your reading comprehension needs work. For the first couple days and weeks, fawn will often simply not move. They rely on camouflage and the fact that they're nearly orderless for survival. Survival is good in these first few days. After a few weeks, they begin to develop a scent, are more likely to run, and more likely to be preyed upon.
unsubscribing - play-lists-extra-ads-total fuck up
I would not interfere, unless I was shooting it.
i think he done the right thing as we to are born into the world as much as any other young animal or humans we all deserve a chance to live, the antis must have being scratching their heads saying ehhhhhhhhhh!!!