Deer pregnacy ?????????

cardeeer · 04-15-2009, 03:30 AM

How can you tell if a doe is pregnant from looking at it ?? I cant see any obvious physical signs. I just got back from the huntin property and was watch 31 doe and 12 buck feeding in the newly planted food plot. I was trying to determine witch doe were pregnant.
And also they are just trampling the food plot to death because of the wet soft ground. Dont know where the other 28 deer were. Quess the forest and the greening of the brush has them busy there. Seen 41 turkey also.

Phil from Maine · 04-15-2009, 04:01 AM

All I do is look at the size of them and if the belly is dropping low or stuck out from the sides some what.. I am not sure why you are not seeing any of this if they are infact pregnant. They may also have already dropped them in your area perhaps and that is why you do not see all the deer you claim that are there..

Steve863 · 04-15-2009, 07:31 AM

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They may also have already dropped them in your area perhaps and that is why you do not see all the deer you claim that are there..

I honestly don't think deer have dropped young ones anywhere in the country yet, nevermind areas in the northeast.

Phil from Maine · 04-15-2009, 11:12 AM

Why not? He is alot farther south than I am, He is in WVand here late April and early May is pretty common...

Steve863 · 04-15-2009, 11:29 AM

Isn't it typical for the rut to be later in areas further south compared to the north? If deer breed in January in the south compared to October or November in the north, this would mean young in the south would be born later than in the north. In NY the majority of deer are dropped in early June. I have seen young ones stumbling around soon after this, but have never seen one of any kind in the month of May. Not that it couldn't possibly happen, but I think that it would be an exception and not the general rule.

Phil from Maine · 04-15-2009, 11:35 AM

OK I understand yah now, perhaps he hasn't seen any signs on them yet because it is still a little early for it to show on them then.. I thought most of the deer bred about the same time all over the country so now I see whereI am wrong on this one..

bronko22000 · 04-15-2009, 02:22 PM

Whitetails have a gestation period of about 200 days. So if the doe were bred about the first week of November, then they should be dropping about the end of May. The reason you are not seeing a difference is that they are probably all in about the same stage of pregnancy. It is only the occasional doe that does not get pregnant during the first heat cycle and comes into heat again about a month later.