 So just heading up here to our little feeding ground we have going for the deer. Hoping maybe that I'll find my first deer shed for the year. So I'll have a look around here and see. My husband has a camera set up here so he can take pictures of the deer in the evenings and mornings and see if any of the bucks have lost their horns yet. When you see one without their horns you know there's one out here somewhere so gets you pretty excited. We found about three or four already this year so they're dropping them early. It's been kind of a stressful winter for the deer here in the prairies because we had such an early heavy snow puts a lot more stress on the deer and causes them to shed their horns a little earlier. So before going to the house and check out and see what's on the camera might just do a little walk through the trees here. There's all sorts of paths that the deers take to come up to the grain and the bale here every night so it's good places to find deer sheds. So I'm just going to take a quick little walk through the trees here and see if we can find any treasures. So I did about a 20 minute walk here through the through the bush here and checked out all the deer paths but didn't find any treasures today. It's great exercise getting out here and walking in the snow so I know the deer will be dropping their horns for the next month or so so I'll just keep coming out here and checking it out to see if I can find one. So we have a lot of really nice trees that we've started right from small seedlings here in our yard and the only way to keep them alive in the winter and the fall is to keep them caged because the deer will do a lot of damage to them as well. So as you can see we still keep caging them as they're growing until they're old enough to probably survive any beatings that the deer might give them. Sometimes though the bucks they can be pretty relentless. You can see here they've gone through the cage and they got to the tree and a lot of damage. I'm not sure how this tree is going to turn out in the spring. It might be a kind of a ugly duckling or it might die so I'll have to wait and see it's too bad. That's a pretty nice size tree. So I got my camera set up on our feeding spot out back here and I spotted this deer this morning and got a little clip of it so you can see some of the bucks still have their horns. So it's a beautiful day outside so I think I'm going to take another walk out there and see what I can find. Okay so I've been out here walking the deer pass for the last two or three weeks trying to find my first shed and there it is. One shed, no two sheds. Check this out. These are nice ones right on the path. My husband always says make sure you take a picture before you pick them up. So there we go. Okay so let's pick up our first shed. It's a nice one and shed number two way back to get it in the camera. Question is is this a match set or not? I'm gonna go with the theory that this is a match set and as I'm walking back to the house look what else I spotted. A broken deer shed. That one up looks like he broke that one off pretty early but another fine nonetheless that's three. Hold it like that. Sure you might get the award for the smallest one this year. Hard to find those little guys. Yes actually they are harder to find. Well nice job. So this is my husband Preston and I have showed him the sheds that I found today and I just wanted him to confirm whether this is a match set or not. Yes they are a match set and how do you know that they're a match set? Well you look at the bases. The bases are the same and also you can look at the grain of the antler and just by the configuration. So it is in my mind 100% a match set and looks like maybe he's an offspring of a deer that used to live in that area in the past and maybe I'll dig him out and we can compare. For sure. Nice find. Okay and what about this little guy? Is this something that was a broken deer horn like when they were younger or how yeah this one has busted this point it could have been just after the velvet stage or just in the velvet stage when it was soft but it's definitely busted and I would think that this might be from a fawn buck. Nothing too big. Yeah it's very small so I'm thinking the genetics are really good on it and he could really turn into a good buck. Nice well these ones are the harder ones to find for sure this one was right on the path so I could have stepped over it easily but I found it so that's good. So I was just out here videoing the deer horns with my husband and had a look at my garden and I can see that these deer have been in my raised beds digging up some of my leaves probably nibbling at some of the goodies they found under the snow and looks like they've been either lying in here or digging up this is where my asparagus is so it's kind of a war a friendly war I have that the deer here I enjoy them and obviously it's fun to find their deer sheds but they can do a lot of damage in your yard as well so I guess we just have to learn to live together here in harmony.