Deer are ruminant mammals with cloven hoofs

Deer yards are, simply put, places where deer congregate and hole up for the winter. These tend to be places on the south side of a ridge, with good sheltering trees (mature softwoods like spruce or fir, hemlock, cedar and pine), and enough low growth and low-hanging hardwood (and in hard times, softwood) limbs within easy traveling distance for food. While people were talking about spring being just around the corner, February was cocking it's arm for a punch, and threw one in good shape with several days of snow and extreme bitter cold, and it added to the existing winter's accumulation, it was enough to make things hard going for the deer, even on well trodden trails. Deep snow late in the season causes three concerns, It's harder for deer, especially pregnant deer, to outrun predators, chiefly free running domestic dogs and coyotes. It makes it harder for them to reach food, and third, and most telling, it makes them use up dwindling reserves of energy that they'll need to ride out the wet, cold weather of march and April. For the deer, a spate of snowstorms in February can make a difference between life and death---a thing were apt to think little about as we grouse about commuting delays or having to shovel or walk. The deer that come in my yard have been coming for 25years, and they follow the cycle of the moon, they are cautious, quiet and the color of beautiful cashmere brown, standing so still, lifting their head only to graze again then when startled they will gracefully move and bound over the snow bank with tail raised high like a white flag cuz under neath the tail the hair is snow white, that's why one calls a deer tail flying like a white flag, to see the deer and be able to feed them in this day and age it's better than cool or awesome it's on of gods miracles he's created for us.