Anyone interested in deer farming? Business partner needing! Deer farm and cultural-touring activities?

We are a family of four and 2 dogs from a European country.
We're intending to build a deer farm with cultural and traditional touring and hosting activities.
We need a partner, or even more, depending of situation. We鈥檙e searching for someone with a real love for nature and its treasures, for animals and country life, culture and traditions, which is ready to invest not only money but soul, love, hope and patient. Skills or experience in deer farming are not necessary, we could learn together.
For anyone who鈥檚 interested we have more details, explications, materials, photos, and any information are needed.

Viforata, It sounds like you have a dream and I don't want to belittle that dream, but deer were not meant to be raised on a farm. Someone with a real love of nature and it's treasures, for animals and country life would not want to join you in this project. We live on a farm with a large wooded area joining our property. The deer population has grown in leaps and bounds in the last several years. My wife and I sit out and watch the deer every day and enjoy and care for them very much. Watching them raised in fences like in a zoo just wouldn't be the same. I'm sorry but I would not encourage this project. Try putting your time and resources into something like an wildlife rescue refuge.

I don't think you really have a clue what you are kind of business you are trying to get into. I live in Idaho, there are deer, elk, and bison ranches all around me.

If you are as of this very moment not a millionare, then drop this idea, and move on with your life (at least if you want to do this in the United States).

The fencing requirements alone for a deer, elk or bison ranch are stagering in cost.

There are "big bull" trophy shooter ranches around here. True they get $10, 000 (ten thousand) for a big bull, but it takes a long time of raising a deer or elk, before he will bring that kind of money. Most people (myself included) serriously dislike the "canned hunt" farms.....it's not hunting, if the animal is fenced in!

There are farms around here that raise the game animals to sell the meat to high end restaurant's. That market is only good, when economic times are good. Restaurant's go out of business all the time.

I can drive 1 1/2 miles down my road, and buy a full grown cow elk from a rancher/lawyer. The elk is only $500, and I'll get around 500-400 pounds of meat.

$500 an elk is bairly paying for the fencing, tagging, special licencing from fish and game, hay and minerals cost to raise them.

Raising deer, or other wild game animals, is NOT a get rich quick idea.

Did you know that there are more human deaths caused by captive deer (deer are captive, never domesticated) than any other farm type animal?

Deer are very dangerous, and very difficult to work with. Have you thought about having to give worming medication to a full grown buck, with a full rack of antlers?

I live very near farms like you are describing. I don't know a single one of those folks who are not VERY wealthy, BEFORE they started the deer farm. Go price what a 12 foot fence is going to cost you....and now price a DOUBLE 12 foot fence. In some areas you must put up a 12 foot fence, and about 6 feet beyond that, another 12 foot tall fence, to be sure the deer do not escape.

By the way, if your deer ever do get loose (at least here in the United States) you do realize that they are fair game, and anyone who wants to shoot them can, even off season, and even without a hunting license? Once deer have been captive, Fish & Game and the Dept of Ag concider them to be disease carriers who may be shot on site, if they are free from their enclosure.

~Garnet
Homesteading/Farming over 20 years

What are you going to do about Lyme Disease there? If every visitor came away with tick bytes that gave them a debilitating illness you would not get many repeat visitors.

The other problem is the incurable "Deer Wasting Disease" that will eventually kill a herd with a problem equivalent to mad cow disease. No known cause or cure has been found and if it gets into the deer of your domesticated herd the government will insist you kill them all.

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