fun2hunt, she may or may not have been bred, watch their tarsal glands. Once a doe has been bred she will lick them clean and they'll appear white again, while in estrous they will be black/brown like a bucks tarsal glands. It's also a good way to watch your doe herd as the rut approaches.

Greg is the first person I've ever read make that statement. Buttons are pushed off in the fall prior to breeding and I really don't see them actually return to ma other than herding up, buttons always want to belong to someone and they usually roam alone. When you see a lone antlerless deer, chances are it's a button.

Doe fawns will remain with ma, usually for life in a matriarch family. Generations of doe will remain together. I think and Greg can correct me if I'm wrong with what he meant, when does are in estrous she'll loose her doe fawns/push them off while breeding but they'll return together and again, be a matriarch family. That's not set in stone tho, your doe may or may have been bred.

But we're hijacking the thread, back to your regularly scheduled dead horse beating.