I know lots of you have recently said you wait until Jan 15th or February X to pull your bucks. For those of you who didn't AI...assuming the does went with the native herd and bred (midwest) around the 10th of November...even if they got missed, and cycled 21 days later, now we're talking the first of December. Anyone pulled their bucks yet? I might have gambled hard, but did so today due to my schedule and had some good weather to do it in.
On a slightly related topic, how does everyone manage getting their breeder bucks back together? I saw some fireworks today. I think everyone knows their place on the pecking order list now, but had some pretty tense moments. Even with sawed antlers, plenty are running dangerously close to the enclosure. With every buck I reintroduced, I put that buck and all the others into a new pen and had two or three pens adjacent that they could run from one to the other(s). I was hoping the dominant bucks would spend a lot of energy looking at the new pens and little on fighting. Fights didn't last too long, though. I just couldn't see putting those bucks in a separate pen of their own due to the potential stress of being isolated.
On a slightly related topic, how does everyone manage getting their breeder bucks back together? I saw some fireworks today. I think everyone knows their place on the pecking order list now, but had some pretty tense moments. Even with sawed antlers, plenty are running dangerously close to the enclosure. With every buck I reintroduced, I put that buck and all the others into a new pen and had two or three pens adjacent that they could run from one to the other(s). I was hoping the dominant bucks would spend a lot of energy looking at the new pens and little on fighting. Fights didn't last too long, though. I just couldn't see putting those bucks in a separate pen of their own due to the potential stress of being isolated.
