There is no lack of forage for sure. Crunching with the climate model ... 3.5" LMB stocked 9/15/23 ... I get an average of 2.35 lbs average on 3/22/25. Not too awful far from the mark. Since the model is for ad libitum feeding, definitely fair to say that they are not wanting for forage to eat smile. There is no reason why the 2.52 LMB recently caught couldn't be 4.5 lbs September 15. That's 20% above average for females in Jason's climate and she fits that level of model outperformance. As long as she eats all she wants when she wants, I think it will happen.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so - Will Rogers