Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New Trophy's
New trophy room comments
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Classifieds
Trophy Room
New items
New comments
Latest content
Latest updates
Latest reviews
Author list
Series list
Search showcase
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles and first posts only
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Tennessee Hunting Forums
Quality Deer Management
Sometimes it's better to be lucky
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="TheLBLman" data-source="post: 5265946" data-attributes="member: 1409"><p>Some reading this may be thinking<em> "bad", </em>regarding those behavioral and physical changes in the young bucks.</p><p></p><p>I believe it's mostly "good", in that these young bucks focus more on feeding and growing fatter during their youth, resulting in their being more "healthy" (including expressing more of their antler genetic potential) once they themselves become "mature" bucks.</p><p></p><p>When we have a poor buck to doe ratio with low buck age structure (i.e. few mature bucks), any those bucks then surviving to maturity tend to be less healthy. Also, along with a poor buck to doe ratio, and low buck age structure, there may be a greater degree of antler high-grading of those young bucks, resulting in even smaller than expected antlers among those which might survive to maturity.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheLBLman, post: 5265946, member: 1409"] Some reading this may be thinking[I] "bad", [/I]regarding those behavioral and physical changes in the young bucks. I believe it's mostly "good", in that these young bucks focus more on feeding and growing fatter during their youth, resulting in their being more "healthy" (including expressing more of their antler genetic potential) once they themselves become "mature" bucks. When we have a poor buck to doe ratio with low buck age structure (i.e. few mature bucks), any those bucks then surviving to maturity tend to be less healthy. Also, along with a poor buck to doe ratio, and low buck age structure, there may be a greater degree of antler high-grading of those young bucks, resulting in even smaller than expected antlers among those which might survive to maturity. [/QUOTE]
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Tennessee Hunting Forums
Quality Deer Management
Sometimes it's better to be lucky
Top