bowhuntr311
IowaWhitetail Addict
A big buck is half buck and half doe genectics. Right?
You need a good doe as much as good buck. I know nutrition has alot to do with rack size as well, but on the genectics end is what Im wondeirng about.
A neighbor shot a little 4pt last year with the bow around Christmas last year. I helped him unload it and get it hung in his oak tree. We decided it was 2.5 and after some ribbing about shooting the little fellow he kinda bulled up and said well he wasnt going to be anything anyways. I aggreed to calm him down a bit but it got me thinking how would one know for sure what this little guy could have been.
A deer has the same genectics from birth to death. Right?
Now say you take the best buck in the area and breed the best doe in the area. You have the best potential for a big buck but with out the correct nutrition you dont have a decent buck. So this buck is born and goes through life and he breeds as a 1.5year old dink buck, and he happens to breed to a good genectics doe. Wouldnt that fawn (buck) have a great chance of being a biggun(genectics)?
Now if genectics are the same through life, and a buck has an injury causing a misformed non-typical rack, he is still going to have typical racked offspring?
Dean
You need a good doe as much as good buck. I know nutrition has alot to do with rack size as well, but on the genectics end is what Im wondeirng about.
A neighbor shot a little 4pt last year with the bow around Christmas last year. I helped him unload it and get it hung in his oak tree. We decided it was 2.5 and after some ribbing about shooting the little fellow he kinda bulled up and said well he wasnt going to be anything anyways. I aggreed to calm him down a bit but it got me thinking how would one know for sure what this little guy could have been.
A deer has the same genectics from birth to death. Right?
Now say you take the best buck in the area and breed the best doe in the area. You have the best potential for a big buck but with out the correct nutrition you dont have a decent buck. So this buck is born and goes through life and he breeds as a 1.5year old dink buck, and he happens to breed to a good genectics doe. Wouldnt that fawn (buck) have a great chance of being a biggun(genectics)?
Now if genectics are the same through life, and a buck has an injury causing a misformed non-typical rack, he is still going to have typical racked offspring?
Dean