Deer Farming
Over
the past few days, several seemingly unrelated posts lead up to this
one. First, we learned about how deer can quickly reproduce and overrun a national park. Then we learned about how reindeer are raised as livestock in Lapland. Then I also read an article about how beef, pork, and chicken are
the only meats
found in most American supermarkets. Why do we not have deer ranches?
We do! See, venison is lean, tasty, and growing in popularity, so the
cervid livestock industry is small, but booming.
LedgEnd
Farm in Middlebury, Vermont is home to approximately 400 fallow deer.
Hank Dimuzio, farmer and founder of LedgEnd Farm, is not the typical
farmer, choosing to farm in addition to his career as an emergency room
physician. Dimuzio and his wife, Rhonda, decided to farm deer because he
needed a type of farming that would be compatible with his lifestyle.
“Deer are, in essence, a very low care animal,” says Dimuzio.
Read about
the growing business of deer farming at Modern Farmer.
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