farm hunter wrote:
Its not that the deer aren't healthy - Individually, they may well be "healthy as a horse" - Its that the herd may not be healthy.
What part didn't you understand?
If the individuals in a group are "healthy as a horse" then logic demands that the group is "healthy as a horse" as well. What part of that logic don't you understand?
But a heathly herd is not about genetic diversity - its more centered around buck:doe ratios and age structure.
No it is not! This is exactly what I said earlier. Many advocates of AR define a healthy herd in terms that have nothing to do with healthy and strong deer. They define it in terms that have everything to do whith improving their chances of killing a nice buck and then they say "see our herd isn't healthy".
I clearly understand farm hunter, we will have a healthy herd when you can go out into the woods and in 5 or 10 minutes kill a trophy. I understand that big bucks is what its all about.