Looked at one lease a few years back during a serious dry spell that had a lot of goats and sheep (livestock) and could not believe what they did to the land. I had no interest in that place.

We have a reasonable number of exotic sheep that roam onto my place now, but the numbers are not great enough to do more than suck up a bit of corn and protein. If I felt like they were having much of an impact we'd be opening up on them a lot more.

Water is not that important when it is wet out (duh). But in times of drought, like this past year, its amazing how fast a 30' cattle trough can get emptied by wildlife. My little place offered some of the only wildlife water in the surrounding 10k acres, and you could tell. Worked hard to keep a lot of H2O available 24/7/365.

Water and corn feeders.Don't waist money on protien.

.....but feeding protein will do absolutely NOTHING on 200 acres.....I think that's what online coach was referring too. Just feed corn to attract them for hunting, and then provide water. Feeding protein on 200 acres low fenced is just pissing into the wind.

get rid of the goats...that's the problem (if you have 14-15 deer on the property, you have an ok herd) 1 deer per 15 acres is ok. goats and deer compete for the same food source

Get rid of the goats. Perhaps pay the landowner for the grazing rights as well? Deer and goats/sheep just don't mix well.