Sex and Age

Age and Sex

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Culling the doe's, inferior bucks and very mature 'over their prime' bucks will help most any deer herd. According to ODNR ,a populace of two doe to one buck is very good for Ohio. This is the reason Ohioans are allowed to take so many doe.

An assesment of your particular deer herd including food supply needs to be done. Your local DNR can usually give help with some number's.

Also some farmer's don't care about the deer herd just want the deer gone. Make sure to stay legal with bag limits with your culling plan. Ohio offer's farmer's 'crop distruction permit's' which entitle's the farmer to take more deer than normal hunting regs. allow. The amount of permits is usually decided by deer herd size and amount of estimated crop damage ODNR figure's will occur.
I once got exclusive rights to hunt a large farm that the owner had never let any hunting on. It was an incredible experience as the deer in the area knew to go to his farm after about two hours into our shotgun season. His property became a 'safe haven' for the deer and it was very apparent the deer knew it. WOW, what a time. Many lbs. of deer have come off that property over the years including some monster bucks, trophy 'tom' turkey's and many yote's.

The owner's crop and calf damage was reduced. He was happy ,my freezer's stayed full and many lbs. of deer was donated to food pantry. Win,win for everyone;).
 
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Black Spot's??

I was out glassing the herd yesterday and noticed two black spots on one of the spikes. He is a yearling and appears in good health. He moves well and plays with the other yearlings quite vigorously. The spots are +/- an inch and from 100m with a foggy 9 power TASCO appear pure black? He has one on his left side over his ribcage and one just left of his spine above his shoulder? They protrude about an inch as well.

Any info would be most helpful considering I just sent my Bushnell off for repairs and it will be a few days(weeks) before I can actually take any.

Mike
 
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Every doe, every year, will be impregnated, even if there is only a breeding buck population of 3% of animals.
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Not true. Biologists estimate that a normal healthy buck only has enough energy to successfully chase and breed 6 to 12 does during a rutting cycle. If there are no other bucks around, then that number might go higher because he doesn't have to do any fighting and the does won't make him chase as hard. Even that being the case he'll quickly use up all his energy chasing just a handfull of does.
 
Haystack burners=tender-loins

Shoot the young does that have picked up the "bad habits" of the gene pool.Damage hunts here in Montana usually specify "Does" only. It can be kind of comical, hunting hard all day trying to find m,and when you do- they're standing on top of the haystack. Uh?
 
Inverse? As in the more doe I kill the more are fawns born?

Or The more doe I kill the less fawns are Born?
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Inverse, as in relationship between our age and the amount of sex we get.
 
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