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Axis Deer

Prices:
Yearling:       $275
Male age 2:  $450
Male age 3:  $750
Male age 4:  $1,000
Female:        $250

Good breeder, Excellent trophy, Top meat animal

Since 1984, Comanche Spring Ranch, Inc. has pioneered a successful Axis Deer breeding, venison ranching, and trophy hunting operation in Texas:

Comanche Spring Ranch is known for its exceptional breeding stock. Buyers traditionally pay a premium price for Comanche Spring Ranch deer and antelope because of Comanche Spring Ranch's reputation for fine, big bodied healthy animals; because of Comanche Spring Ranch's Monitored Herd Tb status; because of stress free capture; and because of guaranteed delivery dates.

Comanche Spring Ranch is known for its full bodied meat animals. Industry standards call for meat harvest of 14 to 18 month old Axis males with expected average carcass weights of 65 pounds. Comanche Spring Ranch's average weights are annually in the 70 - 72 pound range.

Comanche Spring Ranch is known for its trophy hunting awards. In one year, Comanche Spring Ranch claimed Axis Deer trophy awards for #1, #2, and #4 trophies in Trophy Records of the World competition.

Comanche Spring Ranch is generally thought of as the "father" of venison ranching.

Comanche Spring Ranch introduced stress-free capture and handling facilities for wild, ranched animals.  We treat these animals with the same respect as a Brahman bull.  Never turn your back.  Always exercise care around large animals and handling will be fine.

Comanche Spring Ranch developed low-cost alternative game proof fencing so it is easier and very cost effective to enter the venison ranching industry.

Comanche Spring Ranch perfected such efficient harvesting techniques that the per head cost of a field harvest was reduced by 60% over ten years.

Comanche Spring Ranch introduced computer based reproduction and profit forecasting for deer and antelope for better management and better profits.  When you buy from Comanche Spring Ranch, you get your own personal forecasting for your files and management decisions.

Marketing Venison
In 1992, under the leadership of Comanche Spring Ranch, a group of area venison ranchers came together to establish a venison marketing company named Venison World, Inc. Venison World takes the deer and antelope products from its producers, does  value-added processing to produce consumer friendly fresh frozen venison cuts, jerkies, and sausage varieties, and markets these products directly to consumers via a retail store, wholesale operation, and Internet website. 

The sale of breeding stock, for the most part, has been word of mouth and one on one with Comanche Spring Ranch picking and choosing those ranch operations and owners who would be compatible with the venison ranching concept.

Most Venison World producers start venison production as a diversification of the typical West Texas ranching operation.

A quick calculation for you:  You can figure that 7 Axis can run where one cow unit runs.  You can figure you will be paid on an average of a 65 pound carcass for nubbin males and 53 pounds for excess adult females.   An average harvest takes around 30  animals.  You can have them captured and hauled to a facility or have them harvested on the ranch with a refrigerated arbitoir on hand.  At minimum, then, 53 pounds times 30 animals times $2 divided by 7 gives you $454 per cow unit for each harvest.  And, you have fewer expenses maintaining the animals.

Animal Maintenance
Deer ranching has gotten rid of the -ing's.  No drenching, pulling, shearing, tagging, worming.   In normal West Texas of good and bad years, feed and mineral costs have been around $8 per head.  We count on feeding about 120 days a year:   August during summer stress, December-February during winter in case of snow or freezing rainsHTTP/1.1 100 Continue so animals are used to coming to the feed truck.  We make sure they have excellent fresh water sources.  They drink fine from standard stock troughs.   When animals are harvested for venison, government meat inspectors check for Tb and any health problems so herds are constantly monitored.  No problems have been reported.  When Comanche Spring Ranch diversified from cattle, sheep and goats, it went from three full time employees to one. 

The Future
Today, the average European consumes from one to two pounds of venison each year even though it is one of the most expensive meats available. Americans consume a fraction of an ounce (not including wild native varieties). Americans would consume more if it were available. It would take 30 to 40 years to build up Axis herds under the best conditions to accommodate one pound per capita. Over 80% of the venison consumed in the U.S. is imported. The imported varieties are stronger tasting, higher fat content species such as Fallow, Red Deer and Wapiti. Axis is viewed as a premium venison with many of the characteristics of fine veal and all the value of a natural, free range, chemical free, fat free, red meat.

Demand for fine Axis venison products has been keeping pace with increased production and there is every reason to believe that the future will  keep pace with a very successful introductory twenty years.  For more information, contact:

Comanche Spring Ranch, Inc.
4138 CR 3326 Eden TX 76837-0010
 Sales & Hunts Phone 325-869-3221   Fax  325-869-8000

Office Phone 210-698-0443   Office Fax 210-698-0413
Website www.comanchespringranch.com

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