Radical rutting
As I write this leader it is the height of the roe rut in my part of Yorkshire. The pandemic restrictions meant I couldn’t stalk in the precious months spring months of April and May – the time of year when I harvest two-thirds of the buck from the estate. This of course put a lot of pressure on me to catch up on numbers during the rut. Thankfully the rut has started well, the bucks have responded well to the call and the keepers intelligence service better still. If you have a stalking lease it is imperative that the stalker gets on with the farm manager and the keepers. Fortunately, the three keepers and the farm manager on the estate I rent for stalking are all top blokes, and I…