ORIGINAL: max the dog
ORIGINAL: jeg3455
ORIGINAL: max the dog
Does are a different story, I let the big mama's pass so I can shoot their veal daughters. That's good eatin.
I used to do the same thing till I found out that those big mama's will run my little bucks off of my food sources, now I take those big mama's and let the little ones feed.
That may be true but big mama's aren't scaring off the big bucks. They attract them. The little does aren't very good breeders like the big does are. I read somewhere a few years ago about a study where for every year a doe is old her fawn mortality drops in half. That means a 2 year old doe looses half the fawns that a 1 year old doe will and a 3 year old does looses even less.
I'm also reminded of a doe I've been seing for the past few years who's been bearing twins season after season. She's an old girl who knows how to keep her fawns alive. Bucks will walk right past her young doe fawns to breed her even if all of them are in season at the same time.
I extremely highly doubt taking out your "big mamas" is going to keep the little bucks on the field. i've witnessed the same behavior, and i honestly don't think it matters much. We try to remove mostly older does, as they're the ones that have triplets and twins to keep the population higher. we do take younger does for meat, as they taste great. And for sure bucks are not discrminatory as far as does. They dont have that capacity to think on that level. It's extremely doubtful that an older doe with twin fawns would all be in heat at the same time. And the chance of you being able to tell if the doe is in heat or not is slim to none.
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