Better breeding?

I found that my best doe always throws nice bucks she is proven to me so wouldn't get rid of her. I have 2 of her Daughters old enough to finaly prove themselves and one throws average buck so far and the oher seems to be better than her mother. So with my experiance if you have a proven doe keep her unless price is rite her daghter is not going to be better until she proves herself pedigree may say different but i have seen a lot of junk with so called good pedigrees. So i would wait til you see what her daughters are producing before getting rid of mama. Just my opinion sure others think differently.

Breeding. Genetics. Ahhh, I like that side of this industry

I bred mother and her two daugters to the same buck and wich he was only average. One daugther produced average the mother and other daugther produced better than average bred to a average buck. This year I am going to put really good semen in my best does and see what they produce. I guess what i am trying to say is it takes a while to find a proven doe in your own heard so why get rid of her once you figure out she is a proven power doe. It cost a lot of money to by a proven doe. You can by a doe with good genes that is not proven but she may not be as good as genes say she is. So once you have a proven doe better hang on to her until you get another one that proves herself.

a good doe will stay on our farm a long time, I take age out of the equation when culling, production is the important thing . An average doe will have to age four to prove herself, If her buck fawns aren't showing anything at two and she is rated lower than # 30 on the farm....time to go. some deer after they prove themselves but the breeding I want is just not there are used to raise shooters but are not in the AI program anymore. to give you an idea of how it looks on our farm we started with tag Yellow 1 ten fawning's ago the does fawing this year are

Yellow 1 (wife's pet) Yellow12, Yellow14, Yellow15, Yellow16, Yellow17, Yellow20, Yellow21, Yellow25, Yellow28, Yellow34, Yellow 44, Yellow 45, Yellow46, Yellow 47, Yellow 48, Yellow 49, Yellow 50, Yellow 51, Yellow 52, Yellow 53, Yellow 54, Yellow 58, Yellow 59, Yellow 64,

As you can see the lower numbers are gone so are most of the 20's & 30's my herd has prospered by removing the lower animals, have I made a few mistakes...yes and no culling a doe and then having her son score 215@5 up from 160@4 ...I'm sure her daughters will do better but having that doe for another ten years producing at least one buck like him every year...I could live with that.