Originally Posted by WmHunter
Originally Posted by Mbrock
Originally Posted by Super Dave
I've always heard, maybe some of the deer biologist on here can confirm or deny, that buck fawn relocate away from their mother around 1 1/2 years of age 1 to 5 miles away. If this is true it adds yet another variable to the equation.

David

The majority of bucks on your property were likely not born there. They disperse from their birth place. Sometimes a mile. Sometimes 20 miles.


At what point is the dispersal?
I have always thought that it is when they are a full age of one year or shortly thereafter.
But some people say after 1.5 years.




It can begin any time after weaning but the majority of them disperse within that first year or so. And what a lot of people don’t realize is bucks of any age can, and do, disperse at times.