Wild Encounters "Deer in Rut, Not CWD: Understanding the Differences" Posted: January 16, 2025 | Last updated: January 16, 2025 "James Bigley Ranches offers unique insight on ranches, Western ...

Here, as winter is on its last legs, some may wonder why forecast next fall’s deer rut so early? But this time of the year, though the snow is flying, is when I have been asked to bracket the ...

An adult white-tailed deer requires approximately 5-7 lb of food per day. Energy demands vary seasonally, and are greatest for pregnant and lactating females, for males in the autumn rut, and for all ...

As the forest changes, the deer change their trails. If a big tree falls, the deer travel around it. They don’t usually go ...

This is the time of year when Jeff Yost didn’t envy the wildlife officers working in the Denver metro area. Yost worked as a ...

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After the rut, an “abscission layer” forms between ... You have to first know where the deer travel, where they bed down, and where their food source is. You can only learn this by spending ...

according to DEEP’s deer factsheet. During the rut, bucks are more active and try to herd does into their territory. A rut has three phases including pre-rut, peak rut, and post-rut. Throughout ...