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But as far as herd management goes,on private land where the age structure of the bucks harvested can be managed, age structure of the does does'nt matter.
We may have to agree to disagree on this one.
If you are harvesting enough does to keep the sex ratio where you want it, I don't think you can do that by only shooting fawn and yearling does. If you could, you would eventually end up with a very old doe herd that would just die off.
I don't think you can ever say the age stucture of either bucks or does, "doesn't matter".
Hunter always want to do "buck management" by culling or whatever you want to call it. But, does contribute 50% of the DNA to the offspring. If you never "turn the doe herd over", you don't know what your "good" buck is breeding.
If a rancher always sold off his calves and because he didn't want to get rid of a producing cow, at some point he would have crashing herd.
But as far as herd management goes,on private land where the age structure of the bucks harvested can be managed, age structure of the does does'nt matter.
We may have to agree to disagree on this one.
If you are harvesting enough does to keep the sex ratio where you want it, I don't think you can do that by only shooting fawn and yearling does. If you could, you would eventually end up with a very old doe herd that would just die off.
I don't think you can ever say the age stucture of either bucks or does, "doesn't matter".
Hunter always want to do "buck management" by culling or whatever you want to call it. But, does contribute 50% of the DNA to the offspring. If you never "turn the doe herd over", you don't know what your "good" buck is breeding.
If a rancher always sold off his calves and because he didn't want to get rid of a producing cow, at some point he would have crashing herd.