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Our best wishes go out to the Turpin Family in Syracuse, Missouri.
Jamie and Kendra Turpin purchased a number
of our whitetail deer for their brand new deer farm, Richland Creek Whitetails.
Their new website,
RichlandCreekWhitetails.com has a guest book you can sign.
We welcome visitors to our farm. Our neighbor, Mr. Ibinger, brought his out-of-town family
to see the babies and give them treats.
Richard and I enjoy showing off our deer and the fawns love the attention.
Perhaps because our fawns meet a lot of different people, they adjust well to their new
owners when we sell them.
Our many thanks to Ohio deer breeder, Ron Haynes, for purchasing these three doe fawns.
Sally May Rambo, Miss Impact, and Martha Sue Impact bring fantastic genetics to Mr.
Haynes' deer farm.
The three doe fawns are on their way to their new home in Ohio.
In 2010, we sent fawns to new homes in
Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Ohio. We shipped mature bucks and does to
Oklahoma and throughout Missouri.
Semen sales were made to breeders in Ohio, Illinois, and Texas. We appreciate
our buyers and offer our heartfelt thanks.
How to Start a Deer Farm
We get a lot of inquiries from folks thinking about getting into the deer
business. Other folks simply want to own deer as a hobby or have a pet deer.
(Richard and I welcome phone calls, emails, and farm visits.)
Each state has regulations pertaining to whitetail deer ownership and breeding.
Some states don't even allow it.
The first step to starting a deer farm is to learn your state's requirements.
The state department that regulates deer breeding is often your state's
Department of Agriculture.
It might also be your Fish and Game Department, Department of Natural Resources,
or Department of Conservation. It might be the same state department that issues
hunting and fishing licenses.
Good luck. It's easy to get lost in government websites. When typing-in search
words, use the word "cervid" or "cervidae" if you're not getting results with
"deer breeding".
I've found that some states don't post their regulations online, perhaps because
the laws change frequently.
Starting a Deer Farm in Missouri
Getting a permit to own whitetail
deer in Missouri is relatively easy. Here are a couple of links to wade
through:
Class I Wildlife Breeder Permit application:
http://mdc.mo.gov/sites/default/files/resources/2010/06/8566_5553.pdf
Chapter 9 of the Missouri Wildlife Code:
http://www.sos.mo.gov/adrules/csr/current/3csr/3c10-9.pdf
Simply put, you put up your
eight-foot-high fence, create some sort of
shelter, have a feed and watering station, and have a veterinarian agree to
provide services when the need arises.
Then you fill out your application and send it with $50
to the Missouri Department
of Conservation in Jefferson City.
Your county agent will inspect your pen and has the power to approve your
application. He'll give you the forms to fill out to keep records on your
deer. The fee is $50
annually
You obtain your deer from
deer breeders, either directly from the farm or through auction services.
Deer sellers cannot sell deer to anyone without a
state-issued permit.
Deer need to be ear tagged. You need to keep track of
from where your deer were purchased, where they go
if you sell one, the date when they're born, and
the date one dies.
If a deer aged six months or older dies, it needs to be tested by
your vet for Chronic Wasting Disease.
Do your research. Check out
www.nadefa.org and
www.mwbhra.org . I
strongly suggest you personally visit some deer farms.
It's very helpful to see how other deer producers have their pens and
handling facilities set up. Draw out your pen design a
dozen times before you pound the first post.
Richard says, "Anyone can own deer, but handling deer is a
whole different story."
Trees in the deer pen are a good thing.
Deer need the shade and security trees offer.
Trees in the pen need careful monitoring and maintenance, especially those along the
fence line.
To remove hazardous dead trees in the deer pens, we recently used the services of Colt Tree Service of Camdenton, Missouri.
We were very impressed with the professional performance of owner Jason Coulter and his
crew.
Missouri Federation of Animal Owners
www.mofed.org
Mission Statement:
"Our goal has always been and shall always be to protect the rights of
animal owners and enthusiasts against the devastating effects of the animal
rights movement."
In November 2009, we opted to use laparoscopic A.I. and all went well
under the direction of Glen Erickson from Wellsville, Utah.
Semen from the amazing whitetail bucks Ramsay
and Pure Impact was used.
Deer handler Terry Williams shaves and disinfects sedated Chateau's area of surgery.
Richard wheels her into Glen Erickson's mobile operating room.
Glen inseminates Chateau laparoscopically.
Update: Our artificial inseminations were incredibly 100% successful!
Trouble:
Y-C679 was in a fighting mood and took out his aggression on an interior fence.
Headgear in years past.
I donated my pony tail to Pantene Beautiful Lengths
in honor of friends Jan, Mary Jo, Liz, Barbara, and Marti.
Each of these women have battled or are battling cancer.
There are several worthwhile organizations accepting long hair donations.
I chose Pantene's because they accept hair with a bit of gray.
They partner with the American Cancer Society to give real-hair wigs to women fighting
cancer.
How to make an apple pie:
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
While driving between Missouri Conservation Areas on a morel mushroom hunting expedition,
we took a side trip near Syracuse to view this tower. Richard and I were awed by its 2,000
foot height.
This KMOS TV tower is the tallest structure in Missouri and the fifth tallest in the
world.
Oh yeah, we found a few morels, too.
The Missouri Department of Agriculture purchased a mobile drop chute trailer
for Missouri's deer producers to use when handling deer.
Whitetails of Greenview was the first to put it to work.
Shown here inside the trailer are state veterinarian Dr. Good, federal veterinarian Dr.
Henry,
our farm veterinarian Dr. Howerton, and deer handler Mr. Porter.
Richard and Sam worked the gates and tunnels in the barn as they moved deer in and out of
the trailer.
I handled the paperwork, the syringes, and very briefly the camera.
Each deer in the herd was vaccinated, tested for tuberculosis and brucellosis, and tagged
with new RFID tags.
We attended the Chupp Deer Auction at the Chateau on the Lake in
Branson, Missouri.
For future artificial inseminations, we purchased semen out of two extraordinary whitetail
bucks, Ramsay and Timberjack.
The auction was well attended by whitetail deer producers from across the country.
Richard checks out the antlers at the Missouri Whitetail Deer and Hunting Ranch
Association booth.
Representatives from deer farms, state deer associations, taxidermies,
and farm equipment suppliers set up displays around the banquet room's perimeter.
The almost brand new mobile deer chute trailer was on display outside the Chateau on the
Lake.
Radio Frequency Identification tags (RFID) will most likely become mandatory in livestock
as part of the National Animal Identification System (NAIS).
Also on display outside the auction, was an RFID reader that the Missouri Department of
Agriculture can set up at a farm.
As the animal passes by the camouflaged reader that's set in place by the feed or water
trough,
an electric or solar-powered reader "reads" the tag for identification and
inventory purposes.
Good record keeping is an important part of deer farming.
Here's Camden County Conservation Agent, Sean Ernst, reviewing deer records as part of our
annual inspection.
Richard measures and records the bucks' shed antlers in the barn office.
We introduced new genetics to the deer farm in 2008 and 2009. Meet our
doe, Chateau, purchased from Edwin Ropp:
Chateau boasts some well known bucks in her background including Maxbo, Max, Little Boomer, Boomer,
Missouri Geronimo, Flees' Rocky, Flees' Magnum, Bruiser, Flees'
Bucky, and Maverick.
Here's Betty, from Lavern Beechy's L & S Whitetail Farm:
Her background bucks include High Max, Maximus
CR, Max, BJ,
Sundance,
Little Boomer, Boomer, Flees'
Magnum, Thunder, and Buckeye.
She came to us bred to Double Impact, son
of Double Down. Additional bucks behind him
are
Maxin, PJ, BJ, Poncho, Max,
Flees' Bucky, Little Boomer, and Boomer.
Betty's grandmother sold for $190,000 at the 2009 Top 30 Auction! My goodness!
Introducing Baby Double Max McKinley, son of Betty and Double Impact.
He'll be a breeder buck.
Cats have a reputation for being overly curious. We have cats. We have
deer.
No creature's curiosity tops a deer's!
Where's the baby?
There's the baby!
The rate of antler growth is amazing. A difference can be seen daily.
Pictured above is four year old Y-C679 on May 30, then again just five weeks later July 6,
2008.
Former executive director of the North American Deer Farmer Association,
Holly Johnson, performed an exhaustive
milk replacer study a few years ago. She compared Fox Valley milk to another brand in a
birth-to-weaning experiment.
I was so impressed with the results of Holly's study that I switched to Fox Valley milk
replacer.
Our happy, healthy, robust fawns have never scoured on Fox Valley milk replacer.
It smells good and dissolves easier than any other brand I've used.
A bonus: the milk comes in a five-gallon bucket (which can always be used on the farm).
Maggie's not allowed to herd the deer, but Chicken is fair game!
The hen showed up on the farm this summer and has made herself at home among the deer,
dog, cats, and humans.
She created a nest on the back patio and faithfully provides us with an egg every day.
Thanks, Chicken!
Dear Maggie recently passed away. We'll profoundly miss her.
A couple of years ago, we started using a new style of perma-flex ear tag with a "daisy" stud.
The daisy design is snag resistant and we've had fewer ripped ears.
Giving treats to the deer is always fun. Here's Sam with Largo and
Whisper.
Every deer in the herd loves apples, but only Duke will eat the oranges.
Our son, Sam, is attending college, working toward a bachelor's degree in cyber security.
Cute Baby Harrison has grown into a handsome Little Man.
Here's our grandson with his mom, Becky, and his dad (our son), Steve.
Good news! Baby Evelyn arrived!
Richard enjoyed yet another successful archery elk hunt in
Colorado.
Eight elk in eight years. Wow! Great hunting and good eating.
A bit of fame for Richard: a photo of him and his elk
on the cover of "Release", a Missouri Bow Hunters publication.
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