Buck Chasing a Doe

[Specializedjon]

Glassed the field last night trying to find our new fawn and saw a 4+ year old buck feeding and pushing a big doe. He's got about 8-9" of main beam already with a few forks, junk coming off. Don't remember seeing bucks on does this early, still in velvet. I'm gonna try and get him on camera. He's gonna be a dandy I think. I'm going to put a sign out, letting him know he's welcome to stick around until September/October.

Experts. Educate me if you don't mind.

 

[Ski]

Got no education for you. These southern deer do weird stuff that keep me surprised. I am beginning to think we have a major rut cycle in the fall, but outside of that some breeding happens year round. Too much of this kind of thing happening for it to be an outlier. Not enough so to be the norm, but often enough that it's not an outlier. I'm sure BSK probably has better insight. But that is my guess.

 

[UCStandSitter]

Glassed the field last night trying to find our new fawn and saw a 4+ year old buck feeding and pushing a big doe. He's got about 8-9" of main beam already with a few forks, junk coming off. Don't remember seeing bucks on does this early, still in velvet. I'm gonna try and get him on camera. He's gonna be a dandy I think. I'm going to put a sign out, letting him know he's welcome to stick around until September/October.

Experts. Educate me if you don't mind.

Pro tip: Make sure the sign is printed in Latin. Deer are old school like that. Won't understand it otherwise.

 

[redblood]

Glassed the field last night trying to find our new fawn and saw a 4+ year old buck feeding and pushing a big doe. He's got about 8-9" of main beam already with a few forks, junk coming off. Don't remember seeing bucks on does this early, still in velvet. I'm gonna try and get him on camera. He's gonna be a dandy I think. I'm going to put a sign out, letting him know he's welcome to stick around until September/October.

Experts. Educate me if you don't mind.

Early rut kicking in

 

[BigRod]

Glassed the field last night trying to find our new fawn and saw a 4+ year old buck feeding and pushing a big doe. He's got about 8-9" of main beam already with a few forks, junk coming off. Don't remember seeing bucks on does this early, still in velvet. I'm gonna try and get him on camera. He's gonna be a dandy I think. I'm going to put a sign out, letting him know he's welcome to stick around until September/October.

Experts. Educate me if you don't mind.

This is my new target buck. He'll be my biggest yet

 

[JCDEERMAN]

This is my new target buck. He'll be my biggest yet

That's a lot of growth for this time of year! I'm trying to hold out until mid-July, but pictures like these make it really hard for me!

 

[BigRod]

That's a lot of growth for this time of year! I'm trying to hold out until mid-July, but pictures like these make it really hard for me!

My dad seen him out of his backyard lol. Me and Eli got permission

 

[BSK]

Experts. Educate me if you don't mind.

As Ski pointed out, eventually Nature gets around to trying everything. And if the result is not harmful (leads to lower survival and reproductive rates), it perpetuates. Every behavior and characteristic of a species is a bell-curve distribution, with most near the average, but a few outliers at either end of the spectrum. If being an outlier isn't harmful, more members of the species will occur with that outlier.

 

[backyardtndeer]

Probably more of a pecking order situation. If he is mature and the doe is in the space he wants to feed in, he may just be pushing her out, rather than chasing.

 

[GOHUNT]

Just 8 or 9" at the end of June for a 4+ year old? Must be deficient.

 

[gasman]

I've seen several deer run over on the side of the road lately. The rut is on.