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Artie with the doe he took Sunday morning, November 2, 2008, the second of two adult does he arrowed during the 2008-09 archery season.
Photo by John B. Lander
Posted November 2, 2008
By Art Lander Jr.
OutdoorsKentucky.Com
Harvesting Adult Does Benefits Deer Herds
Harvesting adult does always makes good sense.
Removing older antlerless deer impacts a herd’s reproductive potential by removing the females that are most likely to give birth to twins.
Since a deer herd can increase in size by 40 percent a year if unchecked, it doesn’t take long for herds to overpopulate.
This creates a problem for the deer by over browsing and degrading their habitat. Humans that live in proximity to the deer suffer damage to suburban shrubbery, farms crops, and experience increases in deer/automobile collisions.
Removing does also helps to keep sex ratios, the number of bucks to does, balanced. This improves hunting. When a deer population has too many older does, bucks don’t have to compete for mates, and that makes the rut less intense and spread out over a longer period of time.
Older matriarch does are also responsible for running off young bucks -- their offspring and the offspring of other does in their family group. This ultimately means fewer bucks in your hunting area.
As a rule of thumb, adopt a harvest strategy so your herd will have an older age structure of bucks and a younger age structure of does.
Updated October 15, 2011
Staff Report
OutdoorsKentucky.Com
Kentucky’s 2011-12 Deer Season
FRANKFORT -- The Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Commission approved the dates and regulations for Kentucky’s 2011-12 white-tailed deer season.
Here are some highlights:
Archery (Either sex, Zones 1-4) September 3, 2011 through January 16, 2012
Early Youth Weekend (Either sex, Zones 1-4) October 8-9, 2011
Early Muzzleloader (Either Sex, Zones 1 -3, antlered deer only, Zone 4) October 15-16, 2011
Modern Firearms (Either sex deer, Zones 1-2) November 12-27, 2011
Modern Firearms (Either sex deer, Zone 3) November 12-21, 2011
Modern Firearms (Antlered deer only, Zone 4) November 12-21, 2011
Late Muzzleloader (Either sex, Zones 1-3) December 10-18, 2011, (Antlered deer only, Zone 4), December 10-16, (Either sex, Zone 4), (December 17-18
Free Youth Weekend, Dec. 31-Jan. 1, 2012. Either sex, Zones 1-4
Bag Limit:
Statewide, there’s a one buck limit. In Zone 1, there’s no bag limit on antlerless deer. In Zones 2-4, there’s a season limit of four deer.
Kentucky 2011-12 Deer Season Zones
ZONE 1
Anderson, Ballard, Boone, Bracken, Caldwell, Calloway, Campbell, Carlisle, Carroll, Christian, Crittenden, Franklin, Fulton, Gallatin, Grant, Graves, Harrison, Henry, Hickman, Jefferson, Kenton, Livingston, Lyon, Marshall, McCracken, Oldham, Owen, Pendleton, Robertson, Scott, Shelby, Spencer, Trimble, Trigg, Washington, and Woodford.
ZONE 2
Allen, Bourbon, Boyd, Bullitt, Carter, Fayette, Fleming, Green, Greenup, Hardin, Hart, Henderson, Hopkins, Jessamine, Larue, Lawrence, Logan, Lewis, Mason, McLean, Mercer, Muhlenberg, Nelson, Nicholas, Todd, Union, and Webster.
ZONE 3
Adair, Barren, Bath, Boyle, Breckinridge, Butler, Casey, Clark, Cumberland, Daviess, Edmonson, Elliott, Estill, Grayson, Hancock, Johnson, Lincoln, Madison, Marion, Meade, Menifee, Metcalfe, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Ohio, Powell, Rowan, Simpson, Taylor, Warren, and Wolfe.
ZONE 4
Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Clinton, Floyd, Garrard, Harlan, Jackson, Knott, Knox, Laurel, Lee, Letcher, Leslie, Magoffin, Martin, McCreary, Owsley, Perry, Pike, Pulaski, Rockcastle, Russell, Wayne, and Whitley.
Read the Kentucky 2011-12
Hunting & Trapping Guide here