I here ya on the rain front, it could rain for 5 days here and I still dt it would catch us up!
And yes it was an adult, could she have just not bred first cycle though? Idk about anyone else but a few friends of mine and I talked all year last year about how the rut never really seemed to get intense and peak around here, maybe it did and we just didn't notice but I wonder if maybe the unusually warm fall/winter through off the timing of the rut and that led to her being bred late?
We could sit here and throw different opinions out all day long and never agree, it was just something that seemed out of the ordinary to me so I figured I'd table it and see what everyone thought.