Roe size in the UK?

[takbok]

I take it these are larder weights, in skin or not in skin, thank you

Yes, that's larder weight including the skin

 

[Heym SR20]

I wouldn’t say fencing is a waste of money.

It isn’t completely deer proof, but it does reduce the pressure.

I’ve got ground that was completely unmanageable before the fences went in - they just poured in out of adjacent woodland. Now there are still deer, but rather than shooting 8 every trip, I shoot 1 every other trip.

The body size has gone way up for the ones inside the fence - 18-20% weight increase and some thumping great heads. But the density is now 3 per km rather than 25+.

And I’ve not been even slightly selective. I’ve shot everything legal that I’ve seen.

Proper fencing isn’t a waste of money, but whoever put the fencing in has just taken the **** with gates, and general quality. Cattle proof perhaps. Deer and sheep proof - nope. And nor is it hare proof.

Other bits of ground that I stalk on have had very good results with broad leaves in tree tubes. Five years on good canopies starting to close over with majority of trees doing very well. So much so that in a few years time they will need to be thinned.

 

[norma 308]

most roe we shoot in argyll & Bute never seem to get that big. Have always put it down to poor feeding/ tick infestations but I really don't know. They rarely birth twins aswell, which would back up poor feeding maybe? We usually just leave them be since we are shooting reds mostly anyway.
2 hours south to the central belt and the Roe are plentiful and much healthier. 17 -24kg as said above sounds about right for a mature animal id say.

From what I ve been told in the area we shoot in A&Bute roe were plentiful around the 80s and with new tree planting but as the trees matured the red moved in ? And roe declined