I’m not seeing quite the recruitment I’d like to see this year either, and I can’t explain it with anything. We had about as ideal of a spring and summer as you could ask for here, with excellent habitat. Still seeing a lot of adult does with no fawns.
I’m still going with a change in coyote dynamics of some kind but it could be a larger landscape change in the coyote population due to the cycles of some other food source. etc……Whatever changed with these other predator/prey relationships could have resulted in more coyotes or it could have resulted in more utilization of fawns as a food source…….Something likely changed to effect the number of fawns that got eaten
This would probably be a good time to shoot a bunch of does iffin you're wanting to lower the population
