Why we love Deer

This is a Butternut Squash from my veggie patch. This type of squash is called a winter squash. That is because, unlike summer squash such as the zucchini, the winter squash can be kept for months after harvesting them. They are easy to grow and quite tasty roasted or sauteed. They also can be used to make an excellent soup. The plant itself is a vine with runners that can fork or grow 40 or more feet in length. It can climb shrubs or just lay on the ground. The squash don't care. Four or five squash on average can be produced by each runner. There are gardener's tricks that can sometimes increase the yield to seven or even more squash per runner.

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This is a Butternut Squash that has been visited by a deer wandering into the veggie patch.

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Nuff said..
rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing i love butternut squash but deer, i have allergy to red meatmoping hope your aim was spot on. I hate it when an animal suffers just to feed a face if you get mewave teddybear
Let the deer eat! laugh

Butternut fritters..mmm smitten
Local laws stipulate I must wait till hunting season before the stolen calories can be recovered. Until then it is a chase them as they approach routine. Of course deer move and browse mostly at night so some losses before hunting season are inevitable.

Regarding the implied question, mine have been one shot kills for the past 40 something years with most just going down with a plop, like a dropped toilet seat cover. Usual range (due to thick brush) is under 35 yards, sometimes under 10 yards. The last two years the harvest was taken from my front door at about 15 yards with no need to put on my boots, much less go into the woods to find them.

And you still want to have a new career as a hairdresser..?? scold
"stolen calories recovered" laugh
Do you grow Pumpkin also? This fall I'm planning on visiting a "Pick your own" Pumpkin patch.
Deer are also a vector for Lyme desease.
@Kalpataru,


Ken_19: mine have been one shot kills for the past 40 something years with most just going down with a plop, like a dropped toilet seat cover

And you still want to have a new career as a hairdresser..?? scold

Too funny!rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing
Just guessing...that gives you are great feeling to pull that trigger.....
Nah no pumpkin this year. Groundhogsm rabbir and red fox love pumpkin. LoL to the Lyyme disease thing. A disease invented by suburbanites for television consumption but not experienced at all by those with self acquired deer hide or antler collections.

Kal Here lots of women hunt and shoot, so I don't quite get the source for your question. Three weeks ago the red head was firing a sub machine gun and trying out a pistol silencer. My last housemate was faster at gutting a deer than I am. My wife had her own guns and although she preferred killing turkey, taking deer was not unknown to her. A woman down the road who yesterday expressed an interest in having her hair dyed by me, sh has her own deer rifle and takes them regularly from her deck. So really, what are you asking about?
Hello Ken,wave I tried roasted squash a few yrs back, really enjoyed them. Couldn t believe how good they were. They were roasted up, with a few garden spices, GREAT,yay
As for the deer, most of the ones I got were from 100 to 200 yards away. A lot of open farmland and pasture here on the prairies.
I always felt a bit of remorse putting an animal down, but did enjoy filling a few less fortunate people s deep freezes for winter. I have a few elderly relitives, and friends ,not in the best of health, they benifited from me hunting deer.
I love butternut squash, especially made into soup. Yum! smitten

I could never shoot those doe eyed beauties with anything other than a camera, though. blues
I'd much rather shoot a deer with a camera too but what some people are not understanding is that every year a certain percentage of a deer herd will succumb to the winter die off.It's nature's way of weeding out the weaker animals and maintaining a substainable population.


The weaker deer are going to die anyway because of food scarcity,disease,non-human predators etc.
Anyway.....venison tastes discusting...jmo.....
Hmmmmm....I always make them to pieces and cook them like Potatoes.....making soup,sounds good.....perhaps somebody could tell how the best way to make it?
Cal When I was in Haiti a few decades ago I had dog and I agree the dog meat has a different taste than does venisoon, but I would never be silly enough to say one tastes better than the other. I think it is all about how it is prepared and the recipe being used. And of course the skill of the cook,
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I've always love the taste of Acorn Squash but I don't remember eating Butternut squash.


I've heard of people making squash into soups etc.

I've always taken a Acorn Squash and cut it into two halves and place some butter and brown sugar and bake it in the oven or over an open fire.
Ken,

thumbs up tank's I,m going to try that...it looks goodwave
Here is today's pick. I am only picking a few each day, but even so, being single these days it is more than I am likely to eat this week.

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The short one was grown experimentally on a tomato trellis. I was curious to see if the squash would grow too large for hanging and drop off. However the plant realized the squash was dangling and all the squash on that plant are that size. Interesting.

I use sheet metal shears to snip the squash off. Much more authoritative than a pocket knife and a clean cut too. Only 3 tomatoes today but more are coming tomorrow.
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