Originally Posted by CNC
Originally Posted by T-hatchie
I understand that original individual doe estrus isn’t changed. I disagree that future doe fawn estrus won’t eventually trend towards mean after breeding by native deer.

This is proven science now…….…The bucks don’t have any part in determining the estrous dates of doe fawns…..Its completely inherited from the mother….. Its how you have Nov ruts and Jan ruts just a few miles apart……Its completely being determined by the doe herds

I’d need to see the science you reference, as opposed to isolated landscape pockets that have simply maintained a prevalence of outside buck/doe stockings. My mind could be changed, it just doesn’t seem genetically logical to me that the doe controls 100% of that coding.

Last edited by T-hatchie; 01/13/26 03:48 PM.