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Deer Dispersal by Dr. Jonathan Shaw
Food Plot Facts by Kip Adams
Successful Quality Deer Management by Mark Connor
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All About Antler Development by M. Colter Chitwood, Garbiel Karns, Christopher S. DePerno
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Reader Questions
Determining Buck/Doe Ratio
Question: I have 1000 acres leased in S.E. Kansas and this is the first year the property has ever been leased. What is the best way to determine the Buck to Doe ratio without having a Biologist come out or doing an aerial survey?
Answer: Conducting a scouting camera survey is a great way to estimate the buck:doe ratio. The Quality Deer Management Association (QDMA) has published several articles in their journal Quality Whitetails on how to conduct camera surveys and the following link is to one of those article (http://www.qdma.com/articles/details.asp?id=89). You can conduct the survey yourself, it is inexpensive relative to aerial surveys or hiring a consulting biologist, and you can also collect other information about the deer herd (such as population size and recruitment rate). If you can't do a camera survey then you should at least record observation data during the hunting season. This data is nearly always skewed toward does but it at least provides a baseline sex ratio that you can compare future observation surveys to. Good luck with the survey.
Kip Adams