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<blockquote data-quote="eddybo" data-source="post: 150059" data-attributes="member: 7194"><p>I hear what your saying about releasing "tame" animals...but that probably isnt what is happening at that ranch. (I think I saw that episode) </p><p>Most ranch owners who run breeding programs keep small pens where breeder bucks are kept(usually under an acre but they may have 50 of them). The breeder bucks dont do anything other than eat and have semen drawn for artificial insimination and wait for the rut when the owners throw like 20 captured wild estrus does in with them. </p><p>Not all the captured wild does are insiminated and some do not take. This large group of does are turned into these big pens (sometimes like 80 acres or more) with the "cover bucks".(cover bucks have superior genetics but have not come quite to the level of breeder bucks) If the does didnt take from being placed in the breeder buck pens or AI, then the "cover" bucks take care of business when they cycle back in. During the spring the captured does are released back into the main enclosure. The fawns although benefitting from the improved genetics are not "tamed." </p><p>There are usually "proven" does that are kept in captivity year round.(proven does are usually the offspring of great sires and does that have produced breeder bucks) The "proven" does provide the future breeder and "cover" bucks. It is pretty rare for a breeder buck to be returned to the main enclosure...they are too valuable for the services they provide. Deer breeding and sales are big business. You can sell a live animal for more than most hunters would pay to shoot them. If they are returned to the enclosure they will probably be ear tagged and off limits to hunters.</p><p>Like these forums where it is sometime hard to get context from the written word you only get limited information from television. I think you saw either breeder pens or the "cover" buck enclosure and mistook it for the main enclosure, but then again I may be wrong and it may just be a canned hunting operation. Do not be down on a high fenced ranch just because they have a breeding program. In the ranch where I have done most of my hunting behind high fence the animals are just as wild or even wilder than free ranging animals because of the lack of exposure to people. They get used to the feeder truck running about once a month, and the tractors planting plots, but any other intrusion drives them into the thickets. During deer season bucks are often taken that no one even knew was there, not even a game cam pic. Also bucks that have been seen all year just dissapear not to be seen again until after season.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="eddybo, post: 150059, member: 7194"] I hear what your saying about releasing "tame" animals...but that probably isnt what is happening at that ranch. (I think I saw that episode) Most ranch owners who run breeding programs keep small pens where breeder bucks are kept(usually under an acre but they may have 50 of them). The breeder bucks dont do anything other than eat and have semen drawn for artificial insimination and wait for the rut when the owners throw like 20 captured wild estrus does in with them. Not all the captured wild does are insiminated and some do not take. This large group of does are turned into these big pens (sometimes like 80 acres or more) with the "cover bucks".(cover bucks have superior genetics but have not come quite to the level of breeder bucks) If the does didnt take from being placed in the breeder buck pens or AI, then the "cover" bucks take care of business when they cycle back in. During the spring the captured does are released back into the main enclosure. The fawns although benefitting from the improved genetics are not "tamed." There are usually "proven" does that are kept in captivity year round.(proven does are usually the offspring of great sires and does that have produced breeder bucks) The "proven" does provide the future breeder and "cover" bucks. It is pretty rare for a breeder buck to be returned to the main enclosure...they are too valuable for the services they provide. Deer breeding and sales are big business. You can sell a live animal for more than most hunters would pay to shoot them. If they are returned to the enclosure they will probably be ear tagged and off limits to hunters. Like these forums where it is sometime hard to get context from the written word you only get limited information from television. I think you saw either breeder pens or the "cover" buck enclosure and mistook it for the main enclosure, but then again I may be wrong and it may just be a canned hunting operation. Do not be down on a high fenced ranch just because they have a breeding program. In the ranch where I have done most of my hunting behind high fence the animals are just as wild or even wilder than free ranging animals because of the lack of exposure to people. They get used to the feeder truck running about once a month, and the tractors planting plots, but any other intrusion drives them into the thickets. During deer season bucks are often taken that no one even knew was there, not even a game cam pic. Also bucks that have been seen all year just dissapear not to be seen again until after season. [/QUOTE]
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