Interested in knowing when the peak of the rut occurs on your property, or how long it lasts? What about the reproductive performance of your deer herd or the overall condition of deer on your property? These questions (and many more) can be answered by conducting a herd health check and reproductive collection. Quality deer management not only involves producing quality bucks, but also requires managing for a quality deer herd, including does and fawns. Among other things, a herd health check and reproductive collection can provide valuable insight on fawn production, conception dates, and duration of breeding activities, which assists in making sound deer management decisions.
During a reproductive assessment, fetal data is collected from harvested does. In much of the whitetail’s range, fetal data can be collected from does harvested late in the hunting season. However, in regions where the rut, or breeding season, occurs late in the season, a sample of does must be harvested in early spring to collect this information. In most states, Westervelt is able to secure biological deer collection permits to harvest deer outside of the normal hunting season. Fetal data allows our biologists to determine the length of the breeding season, peak rut, fawning period, and reproductive performance of the herd.
Although your ultimate goal may be to produce exceptional bucks, the name of the game is producing fawns. A reproductive assessment allows Westervelt Wildlife Services’ biologists to monitor your deer herd’s reproductive performance and provide recommendations to help reach your primary goal – producing exceptional bucks…and lots of them!
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