I'm following you Germ on this too many hoes (sorry, does) thing and the younger bucks getting in on the action. But I would like to see the evidence on the swimmers of a 1.5 year old buck not being genetically up to par with a similar (genetically) deer at 3.5 years? That isn't true for humans and I'm sure some other species, in fact, older sometimes = blanks. [8D]

I thought that the fact that lots of young bucks were breeding was bad is b/c with fewer does it is more likely that only better bucks (those that win out) will be the ones doing most of the breeding.