Buck Forage Oats vs Bob Oat

I am reading allot of forums on the Internet and there is some thing that I keep seeing allot of. People asking, is the Buck Forage Oat really worth the cost? I would have to respond with questions of my own.

What are you looking for in you food plot?

Are you planting for Deer or other herds as well?

Do you want you investment to freeze as soon as the temp drops below freezing?

Any time you get ready to plant a food plot, no matter what species you are feeding, you need to insure that what you put in the ground is what the animal needs. Do a little research on what you have “heard works” and make sure that it is backed up with sound research. Yes, believe it or not there is allot of research that goes into plant breeding. Buck Forage Oats and Chicory is what we use here at the facility because it works! We have had 7 nights that the temp has been below freezing and have had snow on the ground for a few of those days and the oats look great. Yes we do have a bob oat in the ground as well and believe it or not, they are already brown. I am not saying that the bob oat is not a good oat I am just saying that it is brown. I have also read an article that some one has posted telling the reader to taste the bob oat and compare it to the Buck Forage oat, as I recall this individual said the Buck Forage Oat was better tasting. When the Bob oat’s get tall they become “stalky” like a half boiled pot of asparagus. Well that is another reason deer will stop eating the bob oat as it get taller, it is like eating sticks (mow them down and they will eat them again). The Buck Forage Oat will stay more palatable to the deer all the way to the heading out stage.

I would love to hear from any one that has done any testing them selves on the Buck Forage Oat next to another cereal grain

Scott Roebuck

New web site.

We are under construction and I must say, I am happy with the way it is looking. We have been working long hours to get Deer Channel more informative for you. You will see we have added a new DC Institute, you will start seeing this fill up with some awesome tools to help you grow better quality deer, and if you are not a deer breeder you will find out how to attract the better quality deer to your property. Keep the questions coming to Dr Kroll and make sure you check the ask Dr Deer tab on the video player for your question.

Scott Roebuck

Temporary exhibit open downtown to honor the memory of seven astronauts

Friday, Feb. 1, marks the fifth anniversary of the Space Shuttle Columbia explosion over East Texas while it was re-entering the earth’s atmosphere. On that day the lives of the seven astronauts on board were lost, and material from the spacecraft was scattered across Nacogdoches and surrounding counties.

To commemorate the anniversary, the SFA Columbia Regional Geospatial Service Center and the click here to read entire story

The “magic” plant.

Buck Forage Chicory has been thoroughly tested and is recommended by Dr James C. Kroll a.k.a. “Dr. Deer”

For best results we recommend planting it in companion with Buck Forage Oats in the fall. “The Harvest Plot”

Unlike lower choice deer food such as clover and brassica (turnips, rape, etc.), deer have shown high preference for Buck Forage Chicory in the fall as well as the spring and summer. 

This combination converts your Harvest Plot into a highly preferred Harvest and Nutrition Plot, and only requires only one planting a year. buck Forage Chicory has a protein content of 22-33% depending on the stage of the plant growth.

Buck Forage Chicory can tolerate heavy grazing, low temperatures, and is widely adapted to areas with 30 inches or more of annual rainfall.

We have been amazed at the way our deer stay on these plots here at the research facility at Deer Channel.

Field Day Announcment !!!!!

Buck Forage Products/ Dr. James Kroll’s Institute for White-Tailed Deer Management and Research Food Plot/Intensive Deer ManagementField Day  

When:       March 08, 2008 (Open to Public and Media)

Where:      Dr. James Kroll’s Institute for White-Tailed Deer Management and Research  

The Buck Forage Food Plot Field Day offers you a chance to learn from the Experts on Food Plot Development and see the latest research on food plots, deer behavior and management. Take part in seminars by Dr. James Kroll and Ben Koerth, whitetail deer biologists with the Institute for White-tailed Deer Management and Research; Dr. Steve Harrison, plant breeder with the LSU AgCenter; and the Buck Forage Staff. Learn about the effective use of food plots and how varieties are specifically developed for use in food plots, as well as tour Dr. Kroll’s research facility near Nacogdoches, TX. In addition to food plot management, see how Dr. Kroll and Mr. Koerth have revolutionized private lands deer management. Other topics will include “landscaping” for whitetails, managing native forages along with food plots, cover management, culling and genetics, and much, much more.     

      Tentative Schedule

Saturday, March 8  

10 am                    Field Day opens – landscaping for whitetails: tours of food plot test and breeding facility 

12:00                      Lunch (Barbeque provided) 

1:00 pm                  Greeting- John Butler, The origins of Buck Forage 

1:05                       Dr. Steve Harrison – Crosses and differences between small grains and one Oat variety and the next   1:45                       Dr. James C. Kroll – What we look for in food plots 

4-5:00 (approx)        Your Questions 

6-7:00                    Fredonia Inn – Meet and Greet and Cash Bar                            

7-8:00                    Dr. Kroll and Mr. Koerth presentation  

8-8:30                    Deer Channel New Projects 

Your Questions       

8:00                       Adjourn  

Please RSVP at 1-800-299-6287or buckforage@centurytel.net     

                        Hotels and Other Phone Numbers  

Fredonia Inn (Site of Meet and Greet Social)

200 North Fredonia St.

800-594-5323

(Limited Number of Rooms will be blocked)

Comfort Inn

3400 South St.

936-569-7034

Holiday Inn Express

3807 South St.

866-270-5110

La Quinta

3215 South St.

800-531-5900

Best Western Inn

3428 South St.

936-560-4900

Hampton Inn & Suites

3625 South St.

936-560-9901                               

White-tailed Deer

Although primarily nocturnal, the White-tailed Deer may be active at any time. It often moves to feeding areas along established trails, then spreads out to feed. The animal usually beds down near dawn, seeking concealing cover. This species is a good swimmer. The winter coat of the northern deer has hollow hair shafts, which fill with air, making the coat so buoyant that it would be difficult for the animal to sink should it become exhausted while swimming. The White-tailed Deer is also a graceful runner, with top speeds to 36 mph (58 km/h), although it flees to nearby cover rather than run great distances. This deer can make vertical leaps of 8 1/2 feet (2.6 m) and horizontal leaps of 30 feet (9 m). The White-tailed Deer grazes on green plants, including aquatic ones in the summer; eats acorns, beechnuts, and other nuts and corn in the fall; and in winter browses on woody vegetation, including the twigs and buds of viburnum, birch, maple, and many conifers. The four-part stomach allows the deer to feed on items that most other mammals cannot eat. It can obtain nutrients directly from the food, as well as nutrients synthesized by microbes in its digestive system. This deer eats 5 to 9 pounds (2.25–4 kg) of food per day and drinks water from rain, snow, dew, or a water source. When nervous, the White-tailed Deer snorts through its nose and stamps its hooves, a telegraphic signal that alerts other nearby deer to danger. If alarmed, the deer raises, or “flags,” its tail, exhibiting a large, bright flash of white; this communicates danger to other deer and helps a fawn follow its mother in flight.There are two types of social grouping: the family group of a doe and her young, which remain together for nearly a year (and sometimes longer), and the buck group. The family group usually disbands just before the next birth, though occasionally two sets of offspring are present for short periods. Bucks are more social than does for most of the year, forming buck groups of three to five individuals; the buck group, which constantly changes and disbands shortly before the fall rut, is structured as a dominance hierarchy. Threat displays include stares, lowered ears, and head-up and head-down postures. Attacks involve kicking and, less commonly, rearing and flailing with the forefeet. Bucks and does herd separately most of the year, but in winter they may gather together, or “yard up.” As many as 150 deer may herd in a yard. Yarding keeps the trails open through the movement of large groups of animals, and provides protection from predators. The leadership of the yards is matriarchal. Deer may occupy the same home range year after year, and may defend bedding sites, but otherwise are not territorial. The White-tailed Deer is less polygamous than other deer, and a few bucks mate with only one doe. The extended rutting season begins at about the time the male is losing his velvet, which varies with latitude. At this time, bucks are still in buck groups, and sparring for dominance increases. (Sparring consists of two deer trying to push each other backward.) The buck group then breaks up, and several bucks begin following a doe at a distance of 150 feet (50 m) or so. They follow the doe’s scent; the largest buck stays closest to the female. A buck attempts to dominate other bucks and may mate with several does over the breeding season. He produces “buck rubs” and also “scrapes,” revisiting them regularly during the rut; glandular secretions are left on the rubs. Does visit the scrapes and urinate in them; bucks then follow the trails of the does. After the mating season, the doe returns to the subherd until spring (May or June in the North; January to March in the deep South). A young doe bred for the first time usually produces one fawn, but thereafter has twins and occasionally triplets if food is abundant. The female remains near the fawns, returning to feed them only once or twice a day. Twin fawns are separated, which serves to protect them. Weaning occurs between one and two and a half months. Fawns stay with the mother into the fall or winter, sometimes for up to two years, but the doe generally drives off her young of the previous year shortly before giving birth. The Whitetail’s first antlers are usually a single spike (the “spikehorn”). A three-year-old would be expected to have eight points, but there can be more or less, as the number of tines is influenced greatly by nutritional factors. A Whitetail’s age is determined not by the number of tines on its horns but by the wear on its teeth. Once nearly exterminated in much of the Northeast and Midwest, this deer is now more abundant than ever, owing to hunting restrictions and the decline in number of its predators, wolves and the Mountain Lion. It has become the most plentiful game animal in eastern North America and is even something of a pest in many areas, eating garden plants and contributing to the spread of Lyme disease. Thinning the deer population is best done by hunting both does and bucks, as hunting bucks only alters the herd rather than reducing it. There are two dwarf subspecies of White-tailed Deer: the Coues’ Deer, or Arizona Whitetail (O. v. couesi), of the Arizona desert, and the Key Deer (O. v. clavium) of the Big Pine Key area in the Florida Keys. The Coues’ Deer, which has somewhat enlarged ears and tail relative to the other Whitetails, reaches a maximum of about 100 pounds (45 kg). The tiny, dog-size Key Deer weighs 45-75 pounds (21-34 kg) or less. Some mammalogists classify the Key Deer as a separate species.description Size varies greatly; a small to medium-size deer. Tan or reddish brown above in summer; grayish brown in winter. Belly, throat, nose band, eye ring, and inside of ears are white. Tail brown, edged with white above, often with dark stripe down center; white below. Black spots on sides of chin. Buck’s antlers have main beam forward, several unbranched tines behind, and a small brow tine; antler spread to 3′ (90 cm). Doe rarely has antlers. Fawn spotted. Ht 27–45″ (68–114 cm); L 6′ 2″–7′ (1.88–2.13 m); T 6–13″ (15–33 cm); HF 19–20″ (47.5–51.2 cm); Wt male 150–310 lb (68–141 kg), female 90–211 lb (41–96 kg).

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Ask Dr Deer is here !!!!!!

If you have not had a chance to view the Ask Dr Deer video you are missing out. Dr. Kroll, is now responding the questions that you submit and responding with the answer personally on video. Go to the front page player and watch Ask Dr Deer #1 !

New videos almost ready!

Boy have we been busy in the editing room and I must say it is going to be worth the wait. I have had a few sneak peaks at the Hunting footage and wow what a beautiful deer that both Dr Kroll and John Butler harvested. We are only a few weeks away from launching some new and exciting things here at the research center.

Also, Dr Kroll and Deer Channel are stating a new way to respond to the “Ask Dr Deer” questions. Dr Kroll is taking the time to record a video response to the questions submitted. So if you have not sent any in please do it so we can get it in the hopper for a response. The list is getting longer and the questions are awesome.

Take me to your leader !

WOW! and you thought that deer management was tough. For the past week we have been slammed with news reporters, camera crews, UFO hunters and alot of people with stiff necks from watching the sky’s. I would like to point out a few things to keep in mind about the “UFO” sitings.

1. Roger Elston and Scott Roebuck built a super potato gun this past week and so far everything that went into it was unidentified.  hmmmm

2. Our owner and CEO drives a bright red truck and most of the time is flies low to the ground and is extremely fast too.

3. We, well our owner, have been shredding this past week and trust me everything that come out of the back of that thing is low and unidentified. If any of these object say Craftsman on it please return the tool to us. Thanks.

4. Roger has a new revolutionized weapon he wants to develope with them for deer hunting. This p223 Deer anialator 2008 will skin, cook and shoulder mount your deer with the pull of the trigger. Just think before you even get out of the deer stand your trophy will be mounted, cooked and prepared in a matter of seconds. You can get this for the low price of $299.99, but if you respond in the next 5 minutes it is your for only $19.95.

U-F-O stands for Unidentified Flying Object. This does not mean space ships or cloaking aircraft that have mysterious powers and zip throughout the air looking for some one to abduct (although Roger and I want to take them on a deer hunt). Our constable and dear friend LeRoy Gaitan, put it in words that should not be miss understood. He said that he observed something in the air that he has never seen before.

Stay tuned as we will keep you updated on the current invasion of Stephenville, Texas!!!!!!!

p.s. if any of these beings are found ask them how Roger can get in touch with their R&D department to make the prototype of the p223 Deer Annihilator 2008.

Scott Roebuck, Deer Channel