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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5429906" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>It is all because, in a healthy deer herd with high fawn recruitment, even if you kill no does and every living adult buck, the big crop of male fawns all become yearling bucks pre-hunt the following year. This makes it impossible to have a <em>pre-hunt</em> sex ratio skewed much beyond 3 does per buck. But again, that's assuming a high fawn production and survival rate. Reduce the fawn recruitment rate dramatically and suddenly you can have the pre-hunt sex ratio down around 4 or even 4.5 adult does per buck (given a very high kill rate of bucks each hunting season, which doesn't happen much anymore).</p><p></p><p></p><p>It is high. But I said a <u>healthy</u> deer herd! Something is going on across the Southeast since about 2006 that I (and others) don't understand. In areas that used to see 100-120% fawn recruitment, they are now seeing 30-40%. And that very high recruitment of the past was under a higher deer density than we have now. Something very odd is going on across the Southeast.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5429906, member: 17"] It is all because, in a healthy deer herd with high fawn recruitment, even if you kill no does and every living adult buck, the big crop of male fawns all become yearling bucks pre-hunt the following year. This makes it impossible to have a [I]pre-hunt[/I] sex ratio skewed much beyond 3 does per buck. But again, that's assuming a high fawn production and survival rate. Reduce the fawn recruitment rate dramatically and suddenly you can have the pre-hunt sex ratio down around 4 or even 4.5 adult does per buck (given a very high kill rate of bucks each hunting season, which doesn't happen much anymore). It is high. But I said a [U]healthy[/U] deer herd! Something is going on across the Southeast since about 2006 that I (and others) don't understand. In areas that used to see 100-120% fawn recruitment, they are now seeing 30-40%. And that very high recruitment of the past was under a higher deer density than we have now. Something very odd is going on across the Southeast. [/QUOTE]
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