Has anybody else noticed a shortage of fawns this year? I hunt Stephens Cty and we are noticing alot fewer off spring this year.on our lease. We talked to the land owner who said it was the result of the on going drought. He talked to a wildlife specialist who confirmed a small crop of offspring due to drought conditions. With the number of does we have we can rebound. But hopefully this years breeding will be more successful than last year. The coyote population seems to be increasing which has its own ill effects. Been following the green screen and haven't seen it mentioned and wanted to throw that out there to get others opinions. What will the effects be down the road and what steps do you suggest to minimize it?
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last June I was disappointed in the fawn crop. But by July 1st I started seeing fawns out and around. Since I feed yr round with food plots, I expected a better fawn crop but looked like around 50 % had fawns in July. I even saw a really young fawn in Oct. I sure it was just a couple months old at the most. We have yr round water but water supply really got low. And we have yotes in the area, sometimes sounds like two pac's, and I have seen cougar tracks and neighbor has seen one twice, along with some Bobcats too.
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Low fawn recruitment can be tied to many things , but the leading cause is a high predator population, more and more ranches that are practicing deer herd management are integrating predator trapping into the fold. Most think is sounds costly when we quote prices on trapping but in the long run the cost is simple in terms of what is gained in short term numbers that will be seen with the next years fawn recruitment numbers as well as numbers gained in quail and turkey survival.
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