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<blockquote data-quote="Allen" data-source="post: 391548" data-attributes="member: 389"><p>The thought of feeding deer had me curious. So, for the sake of fun I did a little math.</p><p></p><p>The number of 10,000 deer licenses being reduced, has me starting with needing to feed 10,000 deer. WT deer need 4-8 lbs of forage a day, since it will have to be deliverable and commercially available, I am going to make the assumption that we'd want to give them high quality alfalfa and that can be had for around $150/ton based on hay scarcity in a given year/area. Early to mid January going all the way out to early April is roughly 90 days.</p><p></p><p>So the math looks like this:</p><p></p><p>(10,000 deer x 8 lbs forage x 90 days)/2000 lbs = 3,600 tons of alfalfa</p><p></p><p>3,600 tons of alfalfa x $150/ton = $540,000 in feed cost</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I don't know how many feed sites this would have to be distributed over, or how many labor hours it would involve, but thinking back to when I fed 50-70 cattle, I think it's safe to say that the costs associated with equitably distributing this feed to the most starving of the deer population would likely be much larger than the cost of the feed alone.</p><p></p><p>Rough guess, we'd be looking at around $1.5 million for 100 sites each having 100 deer at them on average. In other words, it would take the revenue generated from 50,000 deer tags to pay for the program needed to feed 10,000 deer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Allen, post: 391548, member: 389"] The thought of feeding deer had me curious. So, for the sake of fun I did a little math. The number of 10,000 deer licenses being reduced, has me starting with needing to feed 10,000 deer. WT deer need 4-8 lbs of forage a day, since it will have to be deliverable and commercially available, I am going to make the assumption that we'd want to give them high quality alfalfa and that can be had for around $150/ton based on hay scarcity in a given year/area. Early to mid January going all the way out to early April is roughly 90 days. So the math looks like this: (10,000 deer x 8 lbs forage x 90 days)/2000 lbs = 3,600 tons of alfalfa 3,600 tons of alfalfa x $150/ton = $540,000 in feed cost I don't know how many feed sites this would have to be distributed over, or how many labor hours it would involve, but thinking back to when I fed 50-70 cattle, I think it's safe to say that the costs associated with equitably distributing this feed to the most starving of the deer population would likely be much larger than the cost of the feed alone. Rough guess, we'd be looking at around $1.5 million for 100 sites each having 100 deer at them on average. In other words, it would take the revenue generated from 50,000 deer tags to pay for the program needed to feed 10,000 deer. [/QUOTE]
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