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When does it cease to be hunting and start to be farming?

When you begin growing their rack size.

Lakoskys do it. Drurys do it. Still technically free range wild deer but there's no question they are bigger than deer typically grow in the wild.

Not sure if they still have it but Lakosky had a 24/7 live feed showing one of his trough feeders. The thing would hold about a pallet load of feed and he kept it full year round. Within a number of years he begins dropping 200 inchers and his wife killed a nearly 200" 8pt. How much does it cost? I'd guess all in probably in the six figures annually for many years. But he proved it can be done.

Not my thing. I'm not even interested in hunting shows. But that one had me intrigued enough to look into it a little. While not technically a deer farm where the deer are confined, it's as close as you can get. And he gets results somewhere below deer farm quality racks but obviously well above what good habitat alone produces.
 
When you begin growing their rack size.

Lakoskys do it. Drurys do it. Still technically free range wild deer but there's no question they are bigger than deer typically grow in the wild.

Not sure if they still have it but Lakosky had a 24/7 live feed showing one of his trough feeders. The thing would hold about a pallet load of feed and he kept it full year round. Within a number of years he begins dropping 200 inchers and his wife killed a nearly 200" 8pt. How much does it cost? I'd guess all in probably in the six figures annually for many years. But he proved it can be done.

Not my thing. I'm not even interested in hunting shows. But that one had me intrigued enough to look into it a little. While not technically a deer farm where the deer are confined, it's as close as you can get. And he gets results somewhere below deer farm quality racks but obviously well above what good habitat alone produces.
He also puts in multiple very large food plots, grows corn and soybeans strictly for the deer and does habitat improvement. That feeder is more for advertising than it's for hunting over. Yes the deer get the nutrients but that's not the sole source. He also doesn't shoot deer till they are 6-7 years old.
 
He also puts in multiple very large food plots, grows corn and soybeans strictly for the deer and does habitat improvement. That feeder is more for advertising than it's for hunting over. Yes the deer get the nutrients but that's not the sole source. He also doesn't shoot deer till they are 6-7 years old.

That's all true but also harkens back to my initial post. It takes an all above approach. One thing by itself doesn't do it. And missing any one thing will prevent it. The feed alone is not the only deciding factor, but it is a critical one. Without it they wouldn't be producing the deer they do. And while I 100% agree the live cam on the feeder is a marketing stunt, it's not the only feeder they're running and the deer are absolutely benefitting from all the supplemental feed.

Could they be getting those results from habitat and food plots alone? There are thousands of other farms that suggest no. It's hard to deny that a bigger factor isn't the supplemental feed.
 
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