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Same boat here, he has spent tons on his hunting gear and has gotten zero deer, someone has to keep this family fed! If this family must eat chickens and eggs instead of some good deer tenderloin, so be it! (I do wish he'd get a deer, tenderloin with biscuits and venison gravy would really hit the spot right about now.)
he needs to buy a tractor... last thanksgiving, hubby drove the tractor down to the road to pick up our trash cans (half mile driveway). told him when he left, make sure you take the gun. he laughed at me. came back up with the cans, got the gun and drove back down (cans rattling all the while) and popped a doe down by the old horse pen. said first time he went by, the herd (8 or 9) ran off into the woods about 20 feet and just stood there watching him go by. on the way back up, they just watched him go by again. on the 3rd pass, he stopped the tractor, used the hood to steady the rifle, and BAM! the other does all just ran about 20 feet further and watched as he field dressed her and put her in the front end loader to bring back to the house. 8)
I'm looking at an auction right now and contemplating... he hasn't complained about chicks yet. just the free ranged ones hanging out by the door under the deck. "there's poop every *bleep*ing where!" so now i feed them further away from the house. LOL
as for building coops etc, that's on me to do. he's said already that whatever i want, it's up to me to make. so tomorrow i go buy some more wood for the big coop i need. 8)
I'm watching an auction too. And thinking about buying more wood tmw for something bigger and better. We're twins, except my husband didn't shoot a deer today. (Not sure he'd even know how to drive a tractor.)
Same boat here, he has spent tons on his hunting gear and has gotten zero deer, someone has to keep this family fed! If this family must eat chickens and eggs instead of some good deer tenderloin, so be it! (I do wish he'd get a deer, tenderloin with biscuits and venison gravy would really hit the spot right about now.)
he needs to buy a tractor... last thanksgiving, hubby drove the tractor down to the road to pick up our trash cans (half mile driveway). told him when he left, make sure you take the gun. he laughed at me. came back up with the cans, got the gun and drove back down (cans rattling all the while) and popped a doe down by the old horse pen. said first time he went by, the herd (8 or 9) ran off into the woods about 20 feet and just stood there watching him go by. on the way back up, they just watched him go by again. on the 3rd pass, he stopped the tractor, used the hood to steady the rifle, and BAM! the other does all just ran about 20 feet further and watched as he field dressed her and put her in the front end loader to bring back to the house. 8)
I'm looking at an auction right now and contemplating... he hasn't complained about chicks yet. just the free ranged ones hanging out by the door under the deck. "there's poop every *bleep*ing where!" so now i feed them further away from the house. LOL
as for building coops etc, that's on me to do. he's said already that whatever i want, it's up to me to make. so tomorrow i go buy some more wood for the big coop i need. 8)
I'm watching an auction too. And thinking about buying more wood tmw for something bigger and better. We're twins, except my husband didn't shoot a deer today. (Not sure he'd even know how to drive a tractor.)
