I like having a floor. Just throw out a couple of canvas tarps. Easy to sweep up the mess and you don’t have a sewn in floor to make it harder to dry out.
Also, body fat percentage operates much like an on/off switch for ovulation during estrus. It really is kind of an all or none type phenomena.
There either is enough body fat for ovulation or there isn’t.
In domestic livestock (I think it’s fair to assume there is high crossover to wild ungulates) if an animal is on the marginal edge of body fat percentage, there is a “flushing” affect from having access to high quality feed for several weeks prior to estrus.
This alternating year is likely due...
This part was particularly interesting to me.
This also directly dovetails in with elk management in much of MT and a lot of other states with “non traditional” elk herds. Private land elk herds that are feeding on alfalfa circles in the summer will have much high calf recruitment than...
There is a lot of truth and wisdom in this post.
Allowing a HD to go to general bull if it is chronically over objective is not only counterproductive to basic biology in terms of population management, but it also directly incentivizes elk hoarding by landowners.
Can’t draw a bull tag? No...
This. If you try and do one pin for out to 30 you’ll want a pretty fast bow. Mine is a seven pin and I have a 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70. I did the 10 only for things like turkey hunting and honestly they were right on top of each other.