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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 4975407" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>Let me add one caveat to my earlier post. Delayed breeding has been documented in southern deer when herd health is below average. This most often occurs in acorn-driven deer herds (deer populations that rely heavily on acorns as their primary fall food source) during a poor acorn year. From my observations in the MidSouth, a poor acorn year - or total acorn failure - may be able to delay breeding by up to 5-10 days. I do believe I am observing this in areas where I collect most of my data (western Middle TN) this year. Acorn crops are spotty in that region, and from what I'm seeing on black-flash video cameras, hard-core chasing appears to be a bit late this year (about 5 days).</p><p></p><p>The most dramatic case of delayed breeding I believe I've observed in my region was during the severe EHD outbreak of 2007. So many deer were left unhealthy from fighting off the disease that peak breeding appeared (from night-time trail-cam picture data) to be delayed about two weeks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 4975407, member: 17"] Let me add one caveat to my earlier post. Delayed breeding has been documented in southern deer when herd health is below average. This most often occurs in acorn-driven deer herds (deer populations that rely heavily on acorns as their primary fall food source) during a poor acorn year. From my observations in the MidSouth, a poor acorn year - or total acorn failure - may be able to delay breeding by up to 5-10 days. I do believe I am observing this in areas where I collect most of my data (western Middle TN) this year. Acorn crops are spotty in that region, and from what I'm seeing on black-flash video cameras, hard-core chasing appears to be a bit late this year (about 5 days). The most dramatic case of delayed breeding I believe I've observed in my region was during the severe EHD outbreak of 2007. So many deer were left unhealthy from fighting off the disease that peak breeding appeared (from night-time trail-cam picture data) to be delayed about two weeks. [/QUOTE]
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