Question for you experienced guys. Been deer farming for a few years now and as I understand it, the body condition of a deer will go through a sort of cycle. Rut/winter will bring them down in body weight, but summer and early fall they look healthy and fat. Does this match with most everybody...
I had the pleasure of watching 2 does 1 a 2 yr old and 1 a 7 yr old. Lay down not 3' apart and give birth to 7 fawns total. Niether doe moved away from one another............Just the opposite they helped clean and nurse each others fawns for over an hour even helping clean each other up and...
Was surfing the web and came accross this and thought is contained good information.
All deer are ruminants and as such digest their food in basically two steps:
Cervidae Rumination: Step 1
1a. First, they eat and incompletely chew the raw plant material they were foraging for...
I was looking through my saved websites and came up on "Wideload" by Harry Strawser. It made think if there has been any of the big wide bucks of the past has produced wide sons? I can think of some super wide sires, but how are they producing?
Wideload
Jett
Texroller
Monarch
Monarch11...
Forgive me if this is a dumb question :cool: I have a breeder friend of mine that use to tell me that Whitetail deer are the only species that will throw a separate DNA code everytime. Also, that they were the only ones who could pass on individual characteristics, i.e. antler characteristics...