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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5777779" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>In the areas hit hardest by the 2022 drought, I'm seeing a very high spike incidence this year. But that makes perfect sense, as these yearlings this year were fawns last year, and suffered the consequences of the very poor food sources in summer, fall, and winter 2022/23. These fawns becoming yearlings simply didn't enough resources left over after body growth requirements to grow anything beyond spikes this last summer. On properties that normally average 40-50% of yearlings being spikes, I've seen it as high as 80% spikes this year.</p><p></p><p>I honestly expected to see VERY poor antler growth for all age-classes this year, but that was not the case. The only age-class that really seemed to be affected was the yearlings. Now body growth, that's another story for another thread...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5777779, member: 17"] In the areas hit hardest by the 2022 drought, I'm seeing a very high spike incidence this year. But that makes perfect sense, as these yearlings this year were fawns last year, and suffered the consequences of the very poor food sources in summer, fall, and winter 2022/23. These fawns becoming yearlings simply didn't enough resources left over after body growth requirements to grow anything beyond spikes this last summer. On properties that normally average 40-50% of yearlings being spikes, I've seen it as high as 80% spikes this year. I honestly expected to see VERY poor antler growth for all age-classes this year, but that was not the case. The only age-class that really seemed to be affected was the yearlings. Now body growth, that's another story for another thread... [/QUOTE]
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