They didn't fare too good in the recent ice storm we had. This is just one picture of many that froze to death in the county where I live.
Black Buck antelope as well as native white tails, calves, lambs, and many birds were also lost. I have also found lots of dead wild turkeys.
I think everything and everybody in our area took a hit.

What county? I'm in San Saba county and haven't seen near that loss here. That's a dang shame for sure.

You had white tails freeze to death? Ours were living life during our week of -20 maybe there just not used to it?

Weird. They don’t make them like they do in the North.

I bet the YO ranch took A big hit.

... meals on wheels right there

.... axis is some dang good eatin... we don’t have much of them in east Tx...

Yes, they are weird up north!

Wow. That's crazy.

The deer in Michigan put on fat to get them through the winter.

That ranch is about 10 miles west of Menard and 2 or 3 miles to the north. Kimble county had some heavy losses as well and white tails were lost as far down as Boerne and Seguin, that is the ones I have heard about.
I have a few kin around San Saba and a lot of them out in the Wallace Creek Cemetery. My Mothers side of the family lived there.




Our average annual temperature here in February are 40 degrees low and 66 high. So I would say none of our animals are used to it. You reckon ?





If I were a betting man, I would wager they make them the same way.

That's a shame.

I've been told that Axis deer antler is about the best deer antler for turning spouts for powder horns... Not as pithy as whitetail antler. I haven't bought any to try yet so I can neither confirm/deny.

Hate to see stuff like this.

Mike

Didn't mean that as an insult just wanted to know your thoughts.

seems odd calves would die too. I have seen calves born in - temps and survive.

Yep

Going to make prices go up for hunts for many exotics

Sucks to see so much loss of life and waste of good eating

They probably did. I talked to two ranchers in that vicinity just yesterday and both are still without electricity and water. Hauling water to their livestock until they can get things going again.

I don't know if this is right or not but a man told me he had lost some mature black bucks and someone with the game department told him their horns froze and that in turn froze their brains.



I have also, but we had about 8 hrs. of freezing rain with a stiff north wind and some of those born during that time didn't get up to nurse and they froze to death.

Maybe y’all could ship some of those Northern deer down here and let’s see if they can survive our Summers...should be able to seeing how they are Northern deer and they’re all equal.

Your right, we lost a few. We try to have the calves born in the winter so by the time they start to wean they have green grass.

Not hard to find some shade and water. I don’t think you realize how drastic our weather changes here each season. You guys only go from hot to warm back to hot.
Send our deer down there and they’d be 300”!