Feistzeit
The Feist time referred to in the hunter language the period from sweeping up to the rut .
The Feistzeit varies from region to region from July to September and is used by deer to build up the energy- sapping antlers in the summer time, which is rich in food, and to eat up fat reserves in order to have enough strength for the following, energy-sapping time of the rut . Due to the rutting behavior, it is important for the male game to waste as little time as possible searching for and eating food in order to be able to devote themselves fully to reproduction. The stag is very lazy in the wet season because the velvet antlers are very sensitive. Any injury to the bast can lead to pain and abnormal antler formation. This makes the deer secret and difficult to hunt. That is why there is an old saying among hunters :
The Feisthirsch is a forest ghost that you only suspect and never know.
Game, which is often disturbed during this time and driven away from grazing areas , is often too weak in the rut to actively and continuously participate in the rutting events.
literature
- Article "feist". In: The New Herder. From A to Z. First half volume. Freiburg 1949. Herder Verlag. There: "Feistzeit" including a short definition of the same.
- Ilse Haseder , Gerhard Stinglwagner : Knaurs Großes Jagdlexikon , Augsburg 2000, ISBN 3-8289-1579-5
Individual evidence
- ↑ Haseder, p. 230
