This film shares a little behind the scenes efforts from one private land owner's perspective as our deer and elk herds in Utah are dealing with a very challenging winter. Record snowfall and externes periods of time with below freezing temperatures are creating significant stress on many of our animals. We've joined Daniel and Travis with R&K Hunting Co. to get a look at how they are helping out in these difficult times and a bit of an education on how this collaborative effort between state and private citizens are making a positive impact this winter. This is part I of a 2 part series called, "Feeding Deer"
Thanks for clarification provided on the timing of when/how to feed the deer so they can cope with eating hay. I learned something new and appreciate the efforts made to help our herds make it through the winter this year!
Thanks guys ! I am not from Utah but I really appreciate seeing educated land owners who feed wildlife appropriatly. It is not cheap and takes lots of effort. Refreshing to see a land ower who treats the wildlife like the privilege they are to have around not a burden that needs eliminated.
Matt, thank you for this video. A great thank you to R and K owner for doing this and to everyone else taking care of our natural resources. For the good of the animals just awesome!!!!
Thank you HUSH Crew! This is the best conservation video I've seen in a long time. You guys are leading the effort to get the conservation message out. Can't wait to see Brush for Bucks! Keep up the great work!
Dope! Knowledge is everything, and love this style of video. Keep sharing, especially for the people who need to learn. Great video Matt and much love to the entire hushin crew!
Kudos to the ranchers who work hard to feed the elk and deer. Hay isn’t cheap. Now days $350/ton. Management is key for future generations. Education for the public is so important. Keep up the hard work guys. Thanks for sharing. Take care, see ya :)
Super informational video. Where I grew up and still hunt, there is a big mule deer hunt area. The owner's have always done the same thing on bad winter's. This farm has several irrigation circles that also provide food thru the winter. It amazes me the amount of people that don't understand how it work's and how it also helps the surrounding area's.
Great video Matt. Thanks for giving us a behind the scenes look at what is happening during these harsh winters. Especially us easterners that come out in the fall to hunt and rarely even think of how the deer and elk struggle to survive these long cold seasons.
Hey, Joseph, did you follow up on the text-to-claim-prize thing below? I got one of those and explored it a little. Seemed too fishy for me to actually pull the trigger on. Person on the other end was claiming to be Casey Lavere, but using an Oakland California phone number... 🤔
I’m glad to see stuff like this going on it’s unreal the effects that a bad winter has on these animals. thanks for sharing guys I learned a lot! Awesome video!
Everyone that talks down the Sportsman’s of America should really watch this and see how much we care about our wildlife and helping them keep the population in check. Like he said we aren’t a bunch of blood thirsty animals. Thank you R&K and Hush for shining some light on this controversy
Appreciate anyone that helps animals! Especially in rough winters. Here in ND they struggle all the time. That’s way they eat the hay bales that we feed the cows. Cuz there not much out there for them
Awsome video , to see the behind the scenes what big outfitter do to help the animals in hard winter it Was a very knowledgeable video to hear and see what really going on with the animals herd and how to see how some people help them get through the winter !!!
Excellent footage and information, Hopefully the big snowstorms the west is getting this winter will be followed with good rain this summer to help with the drought’s. I had a uncle that would keep in touch and would go and hunt every so often some of our distance family members that had land on the north west side of Yellowstone, they would set aside some acres of hay for the deer and elk for feeding during winter. That was 20+ years ago but they would lose so much wildlife and cattle to mountain lions 👍✌🏻🇺🇸
Very educational, in my home State of Oregon and where I live (Central Oregon) they put up large signs along Hwy 97 during Migration to let people know that it is Migration Season for the Deer, in hopes they will not only watch how fast their driving, but to be aware that there is a likelihood herds of deer crossing the Hwy, I've seen up to 30 deer crossing that Hwy during Migration, it does help, I just hope people driving understand how important it is to pay attention👍
I'm really glad you showed this to us. It's very interesting exactly what they are doing that most people don't know happens or why. Also how much benefit there is and that it's not making the animals dependent all year as some believe
Good to see ranches doing this to help out the herds but also brings an underlining thought on how many cases of CWD are in the area? Having feeding sites like these makes the spread a little easier but im sure its very minimal. Maybe a future video?
Great video Truly admire this rancher for helping the wildlife in a hard winter. Is there a program in Utah that you can donate time or money to help wildlife. Thanks
As of right now not that we are aware of. Matt and Brayden have reached out to local biologists to help haul feed for the deer on public land. Maybe reach out to your local biologist
Great video. I live in southwest Colorado at 9,000 feet. All of the elk have left because of all the snow expected 5 old cows that decided to stay and not go to lower elevation. They have been living with my horses. Hopefully stealing some meals from the horses will get them through the winter.
@@SHEDi21 cattle will graze and browse along with domestic sheep. That’s why you will see a lot in Montana all the cattle on public and the majority of wildlife on the private. Then in turn the private can lease out the hunting.
Agree ! The over grazing of public land is nuts . The BLM and Forest service grazing permits are relics from the past that need to be reviewed. The grazing permit programs were developed when there was zero consideration for wildlife. Today the mountainous public land is some of the most prized and utilized resources by everyone. And we let it get overgrazed down to the dirt !!! The ranchers with the grazing permits are some of the WORST land stewards and terrible on the resource. The grazing permits cost the rancher next to nothing but cost the public everything. Time to revaluate this 100 year old charity and take a sharp look at public land grazing permits ! Wake up Forest Service ! Wake up BLM !
God bless u guys for helpin the deer and elk. Without ur help the starvation rate would b greater. Where r the animal rts clowns when something is needed.
Great video!!! Hunters are the biggest supporters of wildlife in many different ways. I’m not against feeding the deer and elk. My question is if it can lead to a bigger spread of CWD?
Definitely a possibility. Unfortunately this winter the deer and elk were already pushed in such tight quarters and were running out of feed and energy. That’s why we try out best to spread the feed out over many locations along the ranch. Double edged sword in my opinion.
Does some subsistence come forth? It's a fine thing your doing for the Wildlife. Long ago it was done by Farmers when there was a huge Snow Load👍. Thank you R&K. JO JO IN VT 💞💨❄️☃️
Feeding big game only makes matters worse. You only allow more carryover on the winter range which overgraze the food sources. It gets worse as years go by and eventually leads to catastrophic die offs. Go to wildlife experts if you want an education on wildlife management. Most ranchers are livestock experts. You can’t treat big game as livestock and expect successful results. Nature is sometimes harsh, but we need to remember the reason why we have the abundance of big game in the first place. Let nature do it’s job.
Around Dad's place in WA, definitely don't need to feed any wildlife, a lot of wheat stubble, grasses, elk, muleys, white tail, turkeys, thriving. Nuisance almost.
That would be nice. The snowpack here drives all the animals down into very condensed areas, and competing with growing construction and neighborhoods they are losing critical refuge areas.
Those deer are all dead, deer have a selective diet due to highly specialized bacteria in there rumen. When deer are feed non-native forages theyll die with full stomachs because they cannot diggest hay or other cultivated plants. The Western Association of Fish and Wildlife (WAWFA) has set as a best managment practice to not feed deer or antelope for this reason.
That also is BS. We've helped deer in bad winters for 60 years, the deer do great on high quality hay. What's your experience feeding deer or are you just parroting biologist bs?
I'll be willing to donate time to help... for free. I've tried to offer help through the mule deer foundation but all they want is massive amounts of money through banquets. I dropped my membership because of this. I see that ranchers do shown on the video as more productive. If ranchers & others have connections to line me up, I'm willing to offer time. I've tried to reach out before old school style but everyone's so suspicious they turn it down. Last time someone was open to my offer by my just driving roads & looking for the need & offering was 20 years ago. For area reference, I'm in the Layton area.
Well it is great to see and just go's to show you the sportsman does more for animals then most there is the same problem with no feed in the northeast in the mountains I have seen a fox with a ear of corn eating it so that in itself no food for Predators deer bear turkey now abf is going to kill off waterfowl I hope not really hope not but time will tell
I sure wish my state would stop introducing more predators. 7 years ago I had 35+ deer in my yard every night. This year I'm yet to see one. That and the winter of 3 ft on snow then it rained for a few days. I watched deer actually go in my wood shed. Poor things had ice sicles hangin off them.
There’s no rut mule deer hunts in Utah like in Montana.. and Montana has no room to talk about conservation with the wolf and bear numbers decimating their deer and elk populations 😂
@@GENERALEEOUTSIDE I’m in Montana, the main reason there isn’t many big bucks anymore is because of all the hunting in the rut and no restrictions on size. Everyone drives around and shoots forky bucks off the road during the rut.
This film shares a little behind the scenes efforts from one private land owner's perspective as our deer and elk herds in Utah are dealing with a very challenging winter. Record snowfall and externes periods of time with below freezing temperatures are creating significant stress on many of our animals. We've joined Daniel and Travis with R&K Hunting Co. to get a look at how they are helping out in these difficult times and a bit of an education on how this collaborative effort between state and private citizens are making a positive impact this winter. This is part I of a 2 part series called, "Feeding Deer"
best vid
Thanks for clarification provided on the timing of when/how to feed the deer so they can cope with eating hay. I learned something new and appreciate the efforts made to help our herds make it through the winter this year!
Thanks guys ! I am not from Utah but I really appreciate seeing educated land owners who feed wildlife appropriatly. It is not cheap and takes lots of effort. Refreshing to see a land ower who treats the wildlife like the privilege they are to have around not a burden that needs eliminated.
Matt, thank you for this video. A great thank you to R and K owner for doing this and to everyone else taking care of our natural resources. For the good of the animals just awesome!!!!
Thank you HUSH Crew! This is the best conservation video I've seen in a long time. You guys are leading the effort to get the conservation message out. Can't wait to see Brush for Bucks! Keep up the great work!
What a video! Super educational and it really puts a perspective on what these elk and deer endure each winter especially when the winters are tough.
Aqesome information Matt, awesome vlog.... maybe my favorite yet.
Good addition to the Hush team; go Matty Ice
Dope! Knowledge is everything, and love this style of video. Keep sharing, especially for the people who need to learn. Great video Matt and much love to the entire hushin crew!
Great video Matt . Nice to see behind the seens look at how much work and money go for conservation
Thanks 👍
Kudos to the ranchers who work hard to feed the elk and deer. Hay isn’t cheap. Now days $350/ton. Management is key for future generations. Education for the public is so important. Keep up the hard work guys.
Thanks for sharing. Take care, see ya :)
Great job matty ice. Educating the HUSH fanbase on wintering ungulates is a great way to use the platform! 🤟🏼💯
Appreciate it!!
Awesome work helping our deer and elk! 🙏
Super informational video. Where I grew up and still hunt, there is a big mule deer hunt area. The owner's have always done the same thing on bad winter's. This farm has several irrigation circles that also provide food thru the winter. It amazes me the amount of people that don't understand how it work's and how it also helps the surrounding area's.
Great content, thanks for sharing! God Bless Daniel & the countless other private landowners who sacrifice for the greater good of the rest of us! 😎🤙
Daniel Richins of R and K hunting, Super job!
Love this! Best educational video I’ve seen lately.
Very educational. Good to see so much effort going to save our deer!
Great video Matt. Thanks for giving us a behind the scenes look at what is happening during these harsh winters. Especially us easterners that come out in the fall to hunt and rarely even think of how the deer and elk struggle to survive these long cold seasons.
Hey, Joseph, did you follow up on the text-to-claim-prize thing below? I got one of those and explored it a little. Seemed too fishy for me to actually pull the trigger on. Person on the other end was claiming to be Casey Lavere, but using an Oakland California phone number... 🤔
Great job guys! Love the work and video!
Thanks so much!
That was a great video and informative. That is a great way to hilight people putting in real work for the animals
Absolutely amazing. Keep up the good work. Thank you for what he does and for what you guys do.
Appreciate it!
Thank you for a fantastic educational video!
I’m glad to see stuff like this going on it’s unreal the effects that a bad winter has on these animals. thanks for sharing guys I learned a lot! Awesome video!
Amazing video answered so many questions great work guys
This is so cool. Thank you guys so much for doing this
Everyone that talks down the Sportsman’s of America should really watch this and see how much we care about our wildlife and helping them keep the population in check. Like he said we aren’t a bunch of blood thirsty animals. Thank you R&K and Hush for shining some light on this controversy
Appreciate anyone that helps animals! Especially in rough winters. Here in ND they struggle all the time. That’s way they eat the hay bales that we feed the cows. Cuz there not much out there for them
Excellent video, can’t wait for part 2.
Very educational and good insight ! Thanks for sharing this !
Awsome video , to see the behind the scenes what big outfitter do to help the animals in hard winter it Was a very knowledgeable video to hear and see what really going on with the animals herd and how to see how some people help them get through the winter !!!
Amazing video that’s awesome probably lots of sheds
Excellent footage and information, Hopefully the big snowstorms the west is getting this winter will be followed with good rain this summer to help with the drought’s. I had a uncle that would keep in touch and would go and hunt every so often some of our distance family members that had land on the north west side of Yellowstone, they would set aside some acres of hay for the deer and elk for feeding during winter. That was 20+ years ago but they would lose so much wildlife and cattle to mountain lions 👍✌🏻🇺🇸
Great video! Thanks for the information!
Glad it was helpful!
Very educational, in my home State of Oregon and where I live (Central Oregon) they put up large signs along Hwy 97 during Migration to let people know that it is Migration Season for the Deer, in hopes they will not only watch how fast their driving, but to be aware that there is a likelihood herds of deer crossing the Hwy, I've seen up to 30 deer crossing that Hwy during Migration, it does help, I just hope people driving understand how important it is to pay attention👍
Travis appears to be the only one doing the feeding. 😂🤣😂 Love you content fellas. Keep it up. 👍🏼
Living in the east I don’t really get the details of what’s happening out there.
Great documentary on what’s being done to help! Thanks!
I'm really glad you showed this to us. It's very interesting exactly what they are doing that most people don't know happens or why. Also how much benefit there is and that it's not making the animals dependent all year as some believe
Good to see ranches doing this to help out the herds but also brings an underlining thought on how many cases of CWD are in the area? Having feeding sites like these makes the spread a little easier but im sure its very minimal. Maybe a future video?
So amazing!!!
Great video
Truly admire this rancher for helping the wildlife in a hard winter. Is there a program in Utah that you can donate time or money to help wildlife.
Thanks
As of right now not that we are aware of. Matt and Brayden have reached out to local biologists to help haul feed for the deer on public land. Maybe reach out to your local biologist
Good job guys I love every minute of it got into it can't wait for the next one.... #🔥#🖐#👊#keepitup
@Hushin20 I texted that number
Great job men!! Nice looking hay! No PETA donations?? Lol
That is unreal!!
What kind of of hay did you use to feed them?
I've done it myself,its really good to see. Animal managemet
Mission accomplished, I am more educated. I don't live in Utah, but can apply some of this to my hunting ground. Thanks
I wish the division would let the public help more and be more informative.
Matti ice, I’m a local and would love the opportunity to come and help out whenever
Are the pellets essentially goat feed?
Great video. I live in southwest Colorado at 9,000 feet. All of the elk have left because of all the snow expected 5 old cows that decided to stay and not go to lower elevation. They have been living with my horses. Hopefully stealing some meals from the horses will get them through the winter.
It definitely tames them down. I think if we didn’t overgraze our public lands there would be a lot less winter kill
Interesting thought for sure!
Seems you need to learn the difference between browsers and grazers.
@@SHEDi21 cattle will graze and browse along with domestic sheep. That’s why you will see a lot in Montana all the cattle on public and the majority of wildlife on the private. Then in turn the private can lease out the hunting.
@Cal can back this up as someone who's been hunting montana for 13 years.
Agree ! The over grazing of public land is nuts . The BLM and Forest service grazing permits are relics from the past that need to be reviewed. The grazing permit programs were developed when there was zero consideration for wildlife. Today the mountainous public land is some of the most prized and utilized resources by everyone. And we let it get overgrazed down to the dirt !!! The ranchers with the grazing permits are some of the WORST land stewards and terrible on the resource. The grazing permits cost the rancher next to nothing but cost the public everything. Time to revaluate this 100 year old charity and take a sharp look at public land grazing permits ! Wake up Forest Service ! Wake up BLM !
That is a lot of deer.
Is it safe to feed the deer Wet Cobb?
Should I be using something else that’s better for them?
God bless u guys for helpin the deer and elk. Without ur help the starvation rate would b greater. Where r the animal rts clowns when something is needed.
Great video!!! Hunters are the biggest supporters of wildlife in many different ways. I’m not against feeding the deer and elk. My question is if it can lead to a bigger spread of CWD?
Definitely a possibility. Unfortunately this winter the deer and elk were already pushed in such tight quarters and were running out of feed and energy. That’s why we try out best to spread the feed out over many locations along the ranch. Double edged sword in my opinion.
I hope that the shed closure doesnt send everyone down to Az., we also have had alot of snow, with more coming....
To be fair you should cover the negative aspects of feeding wildlife. Not all positive effects.
Does some subsistence come forth?
It's a fine thing your doing for the Wildlife.
Long ago it was done by Farmers when there was a huge Snow Load👍.
Thank you R&K.
JO JO IN VT 💞💨❄️☃️
Pretty awesome
Awesome video to show the truth of what going on no matter what the keyboard warriors are saying.
You all forget the help we're here long before we were they have the right away
If you're outfitting, then it's just like feeding the cows everyday. You're still just benefiting the outfitter.
I bet they have some insane shed hunting there seems how all the deer are going to be headed down in there for the whole winter
Feeding big game only makes matters worse. You only allow more carryover on the winter range which overgraze the food sources. It gets worse as years go by and eventually leads to catastrophic die offs. Go to wildlife experts if you want an education on wildlife management. Most ranchers are livestock experts. You can’t treat big game as livestock and expect successful results. Nature is sometimes harsh, but we need to remember the reason why we have the abundance of big game in the first place. Let nature do it’s job.
And that's total BS
Around Dad's place in WA, definitely don't need to feed any wildlife, a lot of wheat stubble, grasses, elk, muleys, white tail, turkeys, thriving. Nuisance almost.
That would be nice. The snowpack here drives all the animals down into very condensed areas, and competing with growing construction and neighborhoods they are losing critical refuge areas.
Those deer are all dead, deer have a selective diet due to highly specialized bacteria in there rumen. When deer are feed non-native forages theyll die with full stomachs because they cannot diggest hay or other cultivated plants. The Western Association of Fish and Wildlife (WAWFA) has set as a best managment practice to not feed deer or antelope for this reason.
That also is BS. We've helped deer in bad winters for 60 years, the deer do great on high quality hay. What's your experience feeding deer or are you just parroting biologist bs?
I'll be willing to donate time to help... for free. I've tried to offer help through the mule deer foundation but all they want is massive amounts of money through banquets. I dropped my membership because of this. I see that ranchers do shown on the video as more productive. If ranchers & others have connections to line me up, I'm willing to offer time. I've tried to reach out before old school style but everyone's so suspicious they turn it down. Last time someone was open to my offer by my just driving roads & looking for the need & offering was 20 years ago. For area reference, I'm in the Layton area.
I think every Hunter hater should watch that video!!!!! And then watch how they’re ribeyes and chicken breasts are raised👍
I shot a elk up and echo and they where’s so close to the road
Well it is great to see and just go's to show you the sportsman does more for animals then most there is the same problem with no feed in the northeast in the mountains I have seen a fox with a ear of corn eating it so that in itself no food for Predators deer bear turkey now abf is going to kill off waterfowl I hope not really hope not but time will tell
Someone buy me some properties so i save wildlife 😉
I sure wish my state would stop introducing more predators. 7 years ago I had 35+ deer in my yard every night. This year I'm yet to see one. That and the winter of 3 ft on snow then it rained for a few days. I watched deer actually go in my wood shed. Poor things had ice sicles hangin off them.
Yet the wgaf claims if a deer eats hay will die
Feeding them in November keeps the does on the ranch for the rut, but if it's legal it's legal. Glad its not here in montana
Gotta love someone that’s got to try and find something negative about a good deed. Good thing there aren’t late November rut hunts in Utah too huh?
@Hushin if it's such a great idea, why is this illegal in other western states? Utah is a shit show for hunting, it's all about $$ there.
@@gethushin let me guess you agree with the 500 raffle tags Utah gives out also but makes you wait years for okay tags.
There’s no rut mule deer hunts in Utah like in Montana.. and Montana has no room to talk about conservation with the wolf and bear numbers decimating their deer and elk populations 😂
@@GENERALEEOUTSIDE I’m in Montana, the main reason there isn’t many big bucks anymore is because of all the hunting in the rut and no restrictions on size. Everyone drives around and shoots forky bucks off the road during the rut.
I feed blacktails off my porch in Oregon and then shoot 'em come October
They have to save them to make money.
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Too many deer and elk on the landscape.... Montana will send Utah our wolf population to help with the problem!
The world is ending soon alot going on and nobody's talking about it just a few
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The only thing this does is keep the deer and elk on the private ranch!
Collars show the exact opposite 🤷🏻♂️
And keep the deer and elk alive
@ktnjr Deer leave all the time. Look a collar info