Planning Your Habitat Design

[@heycatmon]

Awesome video

[@HobbyHarvest]

Thanks!

[@johnkoehler4834]

Good info! Thanks!

[@markhaskins6558]

Great info

[@stanleybuck4195]

Its fun to improve habitat. My sons and spend more time together out outdoors making trails, digging ponds, logging, building blinds, planting trees, making food plots with different food items and checking trail cameras to know what deer live on our land. We have more fun than just hunting.

[@HobbyHarvest]

Glad to hear it! That's where I'm at too. I've hunted my whole life but now my focus has shifted a lot more toward improving the habitat. It's very fulfilling and with great habitat you're all but guaranteed a successful hunt.

[@Browneyemafia]

Real good info...new owner of 30 acres in Michigan,and this will help a ton!!

[@HobbyHarvest]

Thank! Glad it helped.

[@gnutersgnuters5572]

Great video can’t wait to see the next one

[@HobbyHarvest]

Thank you!

[@carlmize3251]

Just saw this video, one question... You mentioned your WI property with no AG around. If you have the best food source (plot) would they not then release to you at night making you a Nocturnal plot?

[@carlmize3251]

I have a similar situation in TN and am curious

[@HobbyHarvest]

Deer will typically start to head to their favorite food source about an hour or two before dark so if you provide them with cover and bedding close enough to your food plots, you'll see them there right before dark. If you're seeing them after dark, you probably need to work on establishing cover closer to your plots. However, on this NW WI property with no AG, I have a different problem. Because those food plots are so much higher quality than anything else in the area, the deer spend all day on them and put a lot of browse pressure on them. Because of this, I've had to put in far more acres of food than I would elsewhere and I've had to work on my blend (seed rate and mixture) over the years to make them as browse resistant as possible.

[@stepoutdoors1161]

@@HobbyHarvest great video. My property is in western Pennsylvania (north east of Pittsburg) There is no agriculture but its very steep, timber and a ton of rock. I have soil ph built up to about 5.75. Problem is with to many deer and high browse. What’s your seed mix you spoke of? with tons of

[@lloydduston707]

Great content. Love your delivery. I subscribed. How many acres is your property & do you live on it?

[@HobbyHarvest]

Thanks for the sub! I only have the back acre of the SE WI property that a family member lives on the front of. That's where I work on a lot of micro parcel things. My NW WI property is where I have a lot more room to work on overall habitat designs. Both properties bring unique challenges so I share everything I learn on this channel.

[@davidvankainen6711]

Thanks for sharing! Just subscribed based on one of your switchgrass videos. Love the background screen of the property behind the Under Armor logo. You touched on some good concepts, but kinda hard to visualize the overall property design vs. just a bunch of habitat improverments that might not all jibe together. Suggest searching "depth of cover". Merry Christmas! Hope the young ones had a great one!

[@HobbyHarvest]

Thanks for the sub! As we dive into winter I'm sure the weather will push me indoors and I'll be doing some example property layouts on the white board so stay tuned for those. In this video I go over some of the basics of setting up a property but it's important to consider whatever natural habitat and topography you have in your specific situation in addition to this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJymhHeGp8-nnZo

[@paulmcdonald9901]

Deer are more accurately crepuscular, not nocturnal. They move most during twilight hours, morning and evening. Of course, "it depends." Hunting pressure or other factors could push them to move more after dark than late evening or morning. In any case, enjoying your content. Working on improving a small parcel down here in Mississippi. I've grown a strong distaste for pine trees!

[@HobbyHarvest]

Glad you enjoy it. Yeah, I only like pine trees for cutting down sight lines. Not much other use for them.

[@steved5023]

How was your hunting season?

[@HobbyHarvest]

We had a pretty solid gun season. Everyone filled their gun buck tags and the guys hunting with bows all saw bucks but nothing in range. I'm waiting around on one big boy for my bow tag yet.

[@Arthur-qp3xc]

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