this confirms the research that she will just eat the food, not breed, and is much more likely to die off in the winter.
Could you do some more research please? Here in Maine some fawns even get bread! So to say a small doe does not breed is ludacris. Not far from here there is a yearling doe with 2 fawns, and if your research was right this couldn't happen right? So fill us in on this one please.
I here alot of folks would not shoot a spike? But, would shoot a four pointer, here a spike and a four pointer are in fact the same age at 1.5 years old. Some spikes are smaller and some spikes are bigger then some four pointers. There is no food plots for them for the most part. If you travel through the Maine woods on the dirt roads you will see only woods, and swamps. Not much in big fields of clover and corn for them to eat. I also feel with our deer population in this area most folks that have never hunted here would be hard pressed to even see 1 deer here. Unless you saw it in someones field with no tresspassing/no huntingsigns every where around them.
You see here the coyotes and the snow makes a big change in our deer numbers and the bigger ones has the best chance to make it. Also here it is not uncommon to get bucks over the 200lb field dressed mark. And even some of them carry a small rack as it is more to do with the food they are eating.
So again could you do some more research for us please and explain what we see in our deer herd here. Good Luck hunting folks!