Joined Apr 2009
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Edgar, WI
Last night while working I was thinking about the deer industry. Somewhere around Pakistan I started thinking how there are so many extra does on the market now. And what this really means to buyers.
I would like to caution people who are thinking about buying does. Because they are so cheap now most if not all are being sold without the benefit of DNA as in years past. This creates a system in which someone can sell large quantities of females bred for extremely low prices. They make their money on the volume and by the fact the genetics are not always what they may claim them to be. When this happens "brown" deer then have a value worth dealing in. I am reminded of many years ago when a guy had what was a pretty big buck for back then. He sold DOZENS AND DOZENS if not hundreds of fawns and bred does from this buck. Later on people caught on to the fact that this buck could not have bred all those does, nor fathered all those fawns. And in fact many of the does he did breed were just plain old brown does with no real history to them. He deer jockied around so much that he would buy and resell does within days. Often passing off deer as stock he produced when it was stuff he bought cheap and then resold.
All I am saying is beware what kind of place your dealing with. One way to be cautious is to deal with farms who don't deal in large quantities. It is easier to verify your getting what you have been told if they have limited numbers of deer on the farm, and for sale at any given time. Do your homework and don't be fooled by cheap prices.
I would like to caution people who are thinking about buying does. Because they are so cheap now most if not all are being sold without the benefit of DNA as in years past. This creates a system in which someone can sell large quantities of females bred for extremely low prices. They make their money on the volume and by the fact the genetics are not always what they may claim them to be. When this happens "brown" deer then have a value worth dealing in. I am reminded of many years ago when a guy had what was a pretty big buck for back then. He sold DOZENS AND DOZENS if not hundreds of fawns and bred does from this buck. Later on people caught on to the fact that this buck could not have bred all those does, nor fathered all those fawns. And in fact many of the does he did breed were just plain old brown does with no real history to them. He deer jockied around so much that he would buy and resell does within days. Often passing off deer as stock he produced when it was stuff he bought cheap and then resold.
All I am saying is beware what kind of place your dealing with. One way to be cautious is to deal with farms who don't deal in large quantities. It is easier to verify your getting what you have been told if they have limited numbers of deer on the farm, and for sale at any given time. Do your homework and don't be fooled by cheap prices.
