Thread: World Record Red Deer!!!!......according to an American

Originally Posted by Happy

Does that mean though that all the Fallows herds hanging around on beef and sheep farms round Wanganui are not free range or are they considered free range ?
Once they move from public to private blocks are they no longer free range ?

We see them all time just crossing from one farm to the other and there is certainly the odd biggish head amongst them.. There's no perimeter deer fencing round where I m talking about just hills and sheep and Angus Beef and deer for miles but they are all mostly fenced farms not public land . The deer live there and come and go as they please. There's plenty of un farmable land round the edges that are probably not private. Funny how all the farmers just assume they "own" those animals on their places as well and some do sell them .. Great selling stuff you don't own .I suppose they could say they feed them as they don't look hungry that's for sure.

I think wild deer jumping cattle fences are free range opportunists. Deer shot within deer netting or where they breed animals for shooters, not so much.