Shooting the lead doe

[Donkey Basher]

My reasoning is that every female fawn or yearling you take out is also taking out perhaps eight future offspring

Yes but if you take an immature doe fawn out you remove one female from next years herd. However, if you take out a pregnant doe then you remove one female from next years herd plus you have a 50/50 chance you take out a second one too if she’s carrying a doe fawn.

 

[Donkey Basher]

Come and have a go at ours, where the land is as flat as a witches tits. You've got these funny things called hills in Hampshire, they help a lot when going for numbers.

You’re not wrong mate, just a gentle Saturday afternoon jape! I’ve been up to East Anglia helping friends out on culls & glad I don’t have to deal with the buggers on ground like that down here!

 

[timbrayford]

Yes but if you take an immature doe fawn out you remove one female from next years herd. However, if you take out a pregnant doe then you remove one female from next years herd plus you have a 50/50 chance you take out a second one too if she’s carrying a doe fawn.

Instead of 8 future fawns,the fawns fawns and so on for each succeeding generation? Surely it's a simple mathematical progression?

 

[Ratel]

Instead of 8 future fawns,the fawns fawns and so on for each succeeding generation? Surely it's a simple mathematical progression?

Take the mature doe and the applied maths is stopped at source, no fawn no progression.