I wonder

[RUGER]

Don't remember ever seeing this discussed before.
I wonder how many offspring 1 buck will have a year?

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[Mudbone]

Good topic. Hmm

 

[Triple_H]

I bet BSK knows.....

 

[Nhill]

Probably depends on buck to doe ratio.
I would guess that the mature bucks would average around 5-10 per year.
Totally a guess though.

 

[Pinwheeled]

Don't remember ever seeing this discussed before.
I wonder how many offspring 1 buck will have a year?

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Great question


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[McCoy]

I was just reading about this the other day. Here's the article I read. Interesting stuff.


https://www.qdma.com/will-dominant-buck ... -breeding/

 

[duckduck84]

Sorry this just popped in my head for some reason. https://youtu.be/74w-0u0PnJI

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[Pinwheeled]

I was just reading about this the other day. Here's the article I read. Interesting stuff.


https://www.qdma.com/will-dominant-buck ... -breeding/

Good stuff there


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[MickThompson]

I was just reading about this the other day. Here's the article I read. Interesting stuff.


https://www.qdma.com/will-dominant-buck ... -breeding/

Good stuff there


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And it's more evidence for the folly of trying to cull out genetics in a free ranging herd.

 

[Stingray]

Depends on their morals, some bucks have 18-20 offspring

 

[megalomaniac]

didn't read the article, but it's pretty well known that in a well balanced herd with reasonable sex ratios, a mature buck will usually only breed 3 or 4 does on average per season.

 

[diamond hunter]

Ok,so stands to reason that if we decrease the number of bucks on our farms and increase the number of does,the bucks that are left will spend more time fluffy kittens chasing tail and us hunters have a better chance of intercepting him.

 

[Dbllunger]

Good article

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[jb357]

Ok,so stands to reason that if we decrease the number of bucks on our farms and increase the number of does,the bucks that are left will spend more time fluffy kittens chasing tail and us hunters have a better chance of intercepting him.

Uh, no

 

[Nhill]

Ok,so stands to reason that if we decrease the number of bucks on our farms and increase the number of does,the bucks that are left will spend more time fluffy kittens chasing tail and us hunters have a better chance of intercepting him.

Not really. If a buck has plenty of does, he won't have to chase them. He'll just sit back and breed all he wants.
The best practice is to kill off does to make the bucks compete for and search for does to breed.

 

[DaveB]

thought I'd mention this

The bucks do not have an inexhaustible supply of ammo.

Just sayin'

 

[diamond hunter]

Makes sense,time to shoot some does

 

[Winchester]

The studies I have read (multiple) mostly agree that a single mature buck is normally only successful in breeding from 3 to 7 does a year on average.

 

[Mike Belt]

It seems to me that I was taken back by reading somewhere in the past that on average a buck may only successfully breed 1-3 does per season.

 

[Hunter 257W]

And contrary to what a lot of hunters think, rack size doesn't necessarily have anything to do with a buck being dominant. Size and aggressiveness win out there. And no matter how dominant a buck may be, he can only be with one doe at a time. While he is occupied with that doe, all the other bucks are taking advantage of his absence and trying to make time with other does. It's easy to see how low the number of fawns can be for any given buck.