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Natural Non- Hrvest mortality rates?
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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 3635717" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>And there's your answer. If 32% of your bucks are 2 1/2 years old, but only 8% are 3 1/2 years old, that's approximately a 75% total mortality rate of 2 1/2 year-old bucks. And I promise you that's not due to natural mortality. Even with 3,300 acres, if you aren't killing many of your 2 1/2 year-olds, people on neighboring properties are. And that's just a reality you will need to live with and manage around.</p><p></p><p>We kill very few yearling bucks on my property. Yet the annual mortality of yearling bucks is still 50%. And there's nothing we can do about that, other than manage with that knowledge in mind.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 3635717, member: 17"] And there's your answer. If 32% of your bucks are 2 1/2 years old, but only 8% are 3 1/2 years old, that's approximately a 75% total mortality rate of 2 1/2 year-old bucks. And I promise you that's not due to natural mortality. Even with 3,300 acres, if you aren't killing many of your 2 1/2 year-olds, people on neighboring properties are. And that's just a reality you will need to live with and manage around. We kill very few yearling bucks on my property. Yet the annual mortality of yearling bucks is still 50%. And there's nothing we can do about that, other than manage with that knowledge in mind. [/QUOTE]
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