2dogs here’s the part that I think you’re probably not getting…….respectfully.

If we go down there to Marengo or Clarke or Sumpter Co where those Jackson Co stockings came from….those deer have one pure rut with all the does across a large area being on the same bell curve……So for example if we sampled does in Clarke Co you would find them all having a late Jan rut with the bell curve running from Jan 19 to Feb 6…..and you would have some degree of a few stray outliers that occurred that would be like Jan 12….Feb 11…. etc……If we sample enough of those deer we can establish a pretty good graph of their estrous dates…..

Now if we take those deer and restock them into a different area then we would expect to find the same range when we sampled them later on…..However, if we start sampling and we suddenly find does showing up at Belafonte and the Coon Gulf Tract with Dec 15 conception dates and Dec 18….etc…..then we have to start thinking that those deer didn’t come from our south Alabama restocks because we’ve already established that those does don’t have outliers that far out……If you look at the fetal study data for Clarke, Marengo, and Sumpter counties…..there are ZERO outliers that occur any earlier than the first week of Jan out of over 200 samples……If they’re breeding in December then they likely didn’t come from those south Alabama sources....The Jones property at Hales Cove has taken over 150 samples and show the earliest outlier at Jan 3......Those are south Alabama deer....they're not the same does as along the river with Dec dates