Deer Cull in New York, East Hampton by Farm Bureau Stopped by Lawsuit

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41. the rut

The average rut for North American whitetail deer lasts from 1-3 MONTHS, and usually occurs in Oct-Dec.

So, to be feasible, you need to build who knows how many enclosures, where you keep deer locked up for up to 3 months, where they must be fed, watered and their health monitored to ensure communicable diseases don't spread, at a time when many areas of the country are frequently hit by blizzards and below-freezing weather.

(They have feeding stations in some states for elk, such as in Washington, and they are all crowded together. I never hear about disease outbreaks there).


And then you have to expect horned-up bucks to just walk away from enclosures full of fertile females, rather than try to kill themselves trying to squeeze into those enclosures any way they could.
(I am sure there are solutions, if you gave it a try)

AND, a spike buck (a year-old male with very small horns) could easily get inside. Despite his young age, a spike buck can breed just as well as an old buck if given the chance. Fellows like this would be in heaven:

(Whereas female deer can be sexually mature as early as 6 months old, bucks do not become sexually mature until [font size=4] 1.5 years old, [/font size] when they will have a set of antlers about 25% the wide of a 6 year-old's, and given any rutting season, they usually mature towards the end of the rut.)