RE: Do bucks live with doe during the rut ?
I read an artical a few years back call "hunting the dead zone". The classified the dead zone has that time between chasing and actual breeding. We have seen, but might not of known it. It is when the bucks are chasing like crazy, you are seeing deer everyone, all times of the day, and then nothing. The artical said that a buck will bed with a doe for 24 hours before she is ready to breed, he will not leave her side. I know there has been a few times I have kicked up a doe that had a good buck with her. So to anwser your question, I do believe that buck with bed with a doe, but only right before she is ready. I do concentrate on doe bedding areas during the chasing stage, but only because I know the bucks will come looking, not because they are bedding there.