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DMP Parents Don’t Pass Bigger Antlers To Wild-Born Offspring

DMP Parents Don’t Pass Bigger Antlers To Wild-Born Offspring

Raising big bodied, big antlered bucks is something of a pastime for a number of Texas landowners and deer managers. For many it’s simply a fun kind of pastime; for others it’s become an intensely studied and intensely applied, well-honed practice.

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Wildlife & Hunting

Research Being Carried Out at the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute

“We’re particularly interested in how different habitat management techniques influence the productivity and nutritional condition of the deer herd”

The Culling Effect

Culling Wild Deer Populations

The Culling Effect

The Comanche Ranch conducted a 15-year “capture study’ with 15,000 wild deer captures. The focus was DNA, culling, and feeding. The conclusion of the culling portion is that culling DOES NOT WORK – and in fact harms – deer size. A major book is about to be published on this study.

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Deer Culling Does Not Improve Deer: Common Sense Habitat Management Does

In a landmark 13-year study based on 15,000 animal trappings, the Comanche (Farias) Ranch near Eagle Pass, Texas, has proven that culling of so-called “inferior” bucks, including spikes, does not increase antler size in wild deer herds—and often harms the herds. The study’s conclusions contradict what our