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Old 12-20-2004 | 02:07 PM
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yeoman
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Default RE: SC - D/B Ratio Out of Control

You need to be more specific about ratios. The are few if any doe=female to buck=male ratios over 3 to 1 in this country. That is because the herd consists of 40% young of the year. Of every 10 deer, 4 are fawns of which 2 are button bucks. One of the 10 is a buck 1 1/2 or older. That makes 3 males. If 3 are males, and 7 females, the ratio is 2.33 to 1. Even if you had no males over 1 1/2 which of course means the deer will be extinct by Spring, the ratio would be 8 to2 = 4 to1.

What you are describing is seeing 10 to 1 antlerless deer. Antlerless does not = female. Your problem is with age structure. If the fawn bucks in your herd lived for 1 or 2 or 3 years, you would see more "antlered" deer as a percentage of the herd. So....you don't have a buck/doe ratio problem, you have an age structure problem.
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