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In a healthy population the majority of does are going to come into estrous within a 10-14 day window. With a relatively balanced sex ratio they will all get bred. The bucks don’t have stress of continuing to rut another cycle or perhaps two in some cases where sex ratios are terribly skewed in favor of females. Limiting that breeding stress is better on every deer in the population. You keep sex ratios and populations in check with habitat condition and the does are all healthy enough to produce twins or triplets. If does continue to go into estrous every 28 days or so until they’re bred it places a high degree of stress on bucks, increases injury, fighting, rut mortality, and stresses them to the point that body condition and antler expression are suppressed. These does often times have lower recruitment rates than those in better condition and better habitat. Also, coyotes are better at learning to hunt fawns in areas with longer ruts. Short window=less predation. Longer window=more predation.