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This and that and news from
Whitetails of Greenview
World Headquarters near Camdenton, Missouri

Three new additions!

1. Doe Yellow 216: daughter of Timberjack and Dream Roller doe.
She's live bred to Power Jack, son of Timberjack and Loner doe.
Her 2010 fawns will have 400" seven times in their background!

2. Doe Orange 24: out of PA Geronimo and Dream Knockout on top and RDM Goliath, RDM Fireball, and Ace on the doe side.
She's A.I.'d to Maxbo Impact, son of world record holder Sudden Impact.

3. Doe Orange 25: out of RDM Turbo, RDM Fireball, RDM Goliath, and Redoy Bill on top
and Redoy Weatherby, Redoy Ben, BP Willy, and Redoy Hightop on the doe side.
She's A.I.'d to Maxbo Impact, son of world record holder Sudden Impact.

We look forward to the fawns in May!

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.

Fawns are due in May 2010.

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.

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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.

 
This past spring, 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.
Check out their amazing pedigrees on our 2010 Fawn webpage and 2011 Fawn webpage.

       


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 McKinley, son of Betty and Double Impact.

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!

In 2008, Richard enjoyed yet another successful archery elk hunt in Colorado.
Six elk in six 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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