ORIGINAL: AJ52
As usual dd you have skirted direct questions to statements you claim were believed by ALL or NONE.
All anybody has to do is go back in this thread and read your posts.
Living and Hunting in PA has little or no bearing on the statements YOU have made about QDM,late breeding,benifits of AR to B/D ratio,HR and future buck harvest, etc...etc...
Your making statements that could have relevance to any state not just PA. You have nothing to back it up, except your own spin on numbers and your "Opinon".
you should really do a little more reading about PA so you would know what you are talking about before you make unfounded accussations like that .
He is what DR. Rosenberry had to say about late breeding and whether we had enough buck to breed the adult doe.
Overall, the rut ran from September into February, but 9 out of 10 does were bred from mid-October to mid-December. The peak of the rut occurred in mid-November (Figure 1). This peak in breeding resulted in a peak fawning time of late May to early June. The gestation period (time from breeding to birth) of deer is about 200 days.
Compared to adult does, female fawns were bred later. Peak breeding by fawns occurred in late November and early December, and nearly half of all fawn breeding occurred from December to February. Fawn breeding probably explains some breeding activity observed by hunters during the firearms season after Thanksgiving.
Overall, one of every four female fawns was pregnant, while nine out 10 adult does were pregnant. Fawns generally had single fawns and adult does usually had twins. Triplets were rare (Table 1).
From these results, we can conclude that Pennsylvania's deer population contains enough bucks to breed does in a relatively short time period. Most adult does are being bred around November, with fawn breeding extending through December into February.
Late breeding by fawns may not be indicative of lack of bucks. Rather, it may be related to maturation of fawns, whereby they don't become sexually mature until late November. Sexual maturity in fawns is related to body size, which is affected by quality and quantity of food as well as birth date. Consequently, fawns in the most productive areas of Pennsylvania may reach sexual maturity and become pregnant (Table 1). Fawns in other areas with poorer nutrition may not reach sexual maturity until the following year, when they are a year and a half old.
If you have anymore questions about the reasons for late breeding and late born fawns in PA , I will be happy to enlighten you.