Mature, free range, bucks usually spend more time fighting than breeding. They are lucky to breed 3-5 doe in a normal season. Breeding is usually done be the spectators, so cull early, cull often !!!!
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how many does do you think a mature buck breeds per year?
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Originally posted by barnett77859 View PostYou might be surprised. Its less than you think. A buck successfully breeds one doe per year.
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one a year??? horsepucky A mature buck will breed as many hot does as are available to him.
They will usually "hole up" with a hot does for 2-3 days, then find another hot doe, and repeat the cycle as long as there are hot does. The only way he breeds ONE doe is if ALL the does on a property come into estrous at the same time...not gonna happen.
A herd always has some that come into estrous early by a week er more, most within a weeks window, and some late. Do the math. One ain't the answer.
I never managed the King ranch, I only worked for DCNR for 26 years, and then 5 years in the private sector...............
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Originally posted by JES View PostAll other bucks in the world are jealous of your two bucks, of course those two bucks bred those does, if you had 50 does those two bucks would have tried to breed them all as well. You basically had them in a pen, I am not knocking the high fence, I managed and hunted a 1000 acres high fence ranch for several years before it was sold and I miss it dearly...
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Originally posted by Grayson View PostExactly. That may be the farthest thing from a real world example ever posted on here. Seriously, 2 bucks and 8 does on less than 500 acres and we're supposed to be surprised the only 2 bucks on the place got all the does bred?
In Llano county where the ratio is proably 1:4 this theory would cause the population of WT deer to disappear on the volume of deer that are killed yearly.
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