Thread: Herd management and Playing our part

Listened to a meat-eater podcast where they were talking about trophy whitetail they took trophy quality whitetail from Wisconsin i think real big solid boys and does aswell and took them to another state
where the feed quality wasn't there like where they were captured, what they found was the bucks went down hill the hinds gave birth to bucks that were nowhere near the size of said father. They were the
same quality no bigger / better then other local deer this wasn't dues to genetics at all but feed quality. They did the reverse and moved deer to an area know for big bucks and the bucks were far better then
where they came from and they also found that if mum has a good supply of quality feed when pregnant this set up the bucks for life, poor health does gave birth to forever stunted bucks the conclusion was
genetics made very little difference as they managed to rule this out - very interesting cant help but this some of this will apply to red deer aswell