The deer is a ruminant grazers selective intermediate type, capable in the event need to digest with good efficiency the fibrous parts of plant foods eaten.
In general its behavior is more food and less herbivore grazer foliage of other cervids, although the choices can be highly eclectic. (...)
the most favorable condition for about 60% of the diet consists of vegetation of the herbaceous layer, while the remaining 40% from shoot tip, branches, leaves and bark of trees and shrubs (... ).
(Taken from "Ungulates of the Alps" by A. Muston, L. Pedrotti, E. Zanon, G. Tosi)
Ruminant grazing type intermediate (14.2 kg of forage verde/120 kg bw / day), consisting of about 30-60% of grasses (very variable).
(Taken from "Ungulates" in France because)
Cervi of 300 kg, almost 30 kg of green fodder per day.
(Taken from "The Deer" by Franco Perco)
The breeding season is virtually over.
Adult males will now have to recover lost several kilos in this intense period (which has an adult may have lost about 20% by weight). This factor involves
high mortality in adult males during late autumn, if they are unable to replenish lost resources before winter.
Adult males will now have to recover lost several kilos in this intense period (which has an adult may have lost about 20% by weight). This factor involves
high mortality in adult males during late autumn, if they are unable to replenish lost resources before winter.
Luckily the production of chestnuts this year looks very good and, being very nutritious anchovy, will undoubtedly help our friends ungulates.
Recently I went to two places in Pistoia, where the deer was already living several decades ago.
I was very impressed by the almost complete disappearance of the forest ... In the few grazing are settled with great speed ferns and junipers ... A particular worry is the fern that in the absence of disorder, prosperous without providing any source of food and can become potentially toxic to the animals!
We have tried in past years to recover by doing some tillage fallow (where possible) and sowing native herbaceous species. These actions, however, need maintenance to last ...
The difference in food availability between Emily and the Tuscan side affects much on the weight of the animals: in Bologna, an adult male can exceed 300 kg!
Two pictures taken recently at Monachino (Sambuca Pistoiese):
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