Here's something I’ve thought about because there’s a lot going on in a small space in my area……Lets take two different scenarios……..Lets just take random county “X” and fill it full of does from one late January stocking source…….Let’s say that the population grows and stabilizes out and now county “X” holds around 5K does county wide…….Now moving forward our doe population moves up and down a little year to year but we hover around 5K does ALL going into heat in late Jan……

Now lets go back and take the same county “X” and lets introduce does from two different stocking sources with different estrous dates of Dec and late Jan and let it grow…..Eventually we’re going to get to the same 5K doe mark and stabilize out……The difference here is that now we have lets say 2500 does that go into heat in Dec and 2500 that go into heat late Jan……..Wouldnt this second scenario see a much more intense rut during that first Dec rut when those 2500 does came into heat versus scenario one where all 5000 are in heat late Jan??.......What if it was 1500 Dec and 3500 Jan?........Wouldnt it be highly unlikely to have many second estrous Dec does in that situation??