When is the deer rut in North Carolina? What causes deer to go into rut? Rutting activity is most intense soon after dawn, though some activity occurs throughout the day. People often ask biologists when the rut is going to occur. It’s a question biologists commonly hear in the fall.
Many hunters want to make sure that they plan hunting vacations to include that magical time when bucks lose all caution and deer are moving.
Photoperio or daylight length, is the trigger for the rut. Meaning it’s happening. Deer are short-day breeders. In some Texas circles, you still hear people talk about the old barren doe that lives in a certain pasture.
The rut is broken down into. This train of thought blames poor fawn production on the idea that many older does do not get pregnant. This explains the high breeding success in white-tailed deer even when bucks are scarce.
We found that on the average, of every 1does sampled in the state were pregnant. The western part of the state was in a drought during much of the study.
In the Trans-Pecos the number of bred does was the lowest. (more…)