ORIGINAL: gzg38b
I sense some confusion about the way genetics works. The genes of an animal do not change as they age. That's determined in the DNA during the moment of conception. So the genes of a given buck do not "improve" as that buck ages. Every living creature on this earth has the same DNA (genes) from the moment it is concieved until the day it dies.
I really hate it when somebody preaches QDM to me and tells me that young bucks have "inferior genes"..... I quit listening to everything that person says after that....
No we figured it out
What happens when a deer breeds under stress? I do not know and I have found no data on it.
Just look atour state(MI).
Why are UP deer smaller in size than Canadian deer? What happen? I have 7 mounts from my uncle 140 and above deer all from the UP shot in the 50 and 60's. What happen to the sized of the deer. The climate is close to parts of Canada why are the deer so much smaller in body weight. Why didmy unclehead to the U.P. for 7 hours when I shoot bigger deer out his backdoor? How far has UP and Northen MI fallen?
It is happing in Southern MI now, just wait if we keep the same deer management policy in time Southern MI will look like U.P. and Northen LP. Now that the bulk of hunters are in Southern MI
Is it not possible for a health deer to pass along bad genes? It happens in humans correct? Does breeding under stress up the % of passing along bad genes? Again I do not know I am asking.
BTW not one person said QDM, we were just learning from each other.