Originally Posted by
J Pike
glew I agree with you 100% when it comes to stress due to over population, but I thought we were discussing stress on inmature bucks caused by the abscence of older age classes of bucks in the herd etc.. Pike
Pike, I think they are somewhat related. If you have an overpopulated herd with all younger bucks, they're absorbing all the stress. If you add a mature buck or two into the mix in essence their "biting the bullet" for the younger guys. Are the young bucks still gonna run their tails off, sure; but across the board I think they'll be exposed to less stress with some big boys around.