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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5506836" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>In the Oklahoma study I mentioned - one of the most intensive studies I've ever seen - researchers would go afield at fawning time and capture newborn fawns and take a blood sample. From this they could sequence the fawn's DNA. They believe they captured around 50% of all fawns born every year. They also got DNA from every deer killed inside the fenced area (they had quota hunts inside the fence each year). And most ingeniously, they would conduct big searches in spring to collect as many dropped antlers as possible and get DNA from those as well. Eventually, they built a huge database that included the unique DNA of most of the deer inside the fence. This huge database of DNA was used to establish the entire lineage of the population, being able to determine who was the sire and dame of each deer. It was this landmark study that finally dispelled the idea that mature bucks do the vast majority of the breeding. In reality, all ages of bucks successfully breed, even when mature bucks are present. <strong>However,</strong> what they found was that the oldest age-classes of bucks were over-represented in successful sirings and the youngest age-classes were under-represented. I don't remember the exact numbers, but it was something like mature bucks, that only made up 15% of the population, sired around 30% of the fawns each year, while yearling bucks, that made up 35% of the population, only sired 20% of the fawns. So it isn't that mature bucks keep yearling from breeding, it is that the youngest bucks produce the fewest successful breedings <strong>per buck</strong>, while mature bucks produce the most successful breedings <strong>per buck</strong>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5506836, member: 17"] In the Oklahoma study I mentioned - one of the most intensive studies I've ever seen - researchers would go afield at fawning time and capture newborn fawns and take a blood sample. From this they could sequence the fawn's DNA. They believe they captured around 50% of all fawns born every year. They also got DNA from every deer killed inside the fenced area (they had quota hunts inside the fence each year). And most ingeniously, they would conduct big searches in spring to collect as many dropped antlers as possible and get DNA from those as well. Eventually, they built a huge database that included the unique DNA of most of the deer inside the fence. This huge database of DNA was used to establish the entire lineage of the population, being able to determine who was the sire and dame of each deer. It was this landmark study that finally dispelled the idea that mature bucks do the vast majority of the breeding. In reality, all ages of bucks successfully breed, even when mature bucks are present. [B]However,[/B] what they found was that the oldest age-classes of bucks were over-represented in successful sirings and the youngest age-classes were under-represented. I don't remember the exact numbers, but it was something like mature bucks, that only made up 15% of the population, sired around 30% of the fawns each year, while yearling bucks, that made up 35% of the population, only sired 20% of the fawns. So it isn't that mature bucks keep yearling from breeding, it is that the youngest bucks produce the fewest successful breedings [B]per buck[/B], while mature bucks produce the most successful breedings [B]per buck[/B]. [/QUOTE]
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