Aldeer.com Forums Alabama Deer Talk Serious Deer Talk Forum More on old doe behavior…….

So this could play out in a lot of places depending on habitat but a good example to use just to explain the concept would be some of the areas around the western side of the black belt…….Basically it’s the idea that with coyotes on the landscape as thick as we have them…..its gonna be tough for a deer population to grow any larger than the amount of fawning cover available……You could have thousands of acres of food but if you only have a hundred acres of cover then the population cant grow beyond the constraint of the limited fawning cover

So if we have a situation like over in the western blackbelt where we have hundreds or thousands of acres of the landscape in food sources less than knee high with only a smattering of cover here and there amongst it……then those deer would be overwhelmed with all the food resources they need without having to worry so much about exploiting them…….That means you could potentially have properties over there where guys arent shooting does but because of the scenario described above these doe herds are still getting optimal nutrition as well as capping out in older age structure……These are your doe herds that are kicking out the higher potential bucks that show up and have people talking about those “good genetics” ……Its not good genetics…..its good nutrition running through generations of the same isolated pockets of does