You would be better off giving me that money and I can bet the results you see will be the same. You are wasting you time and money trying to add a deer a year into that size area. Once that doe breeds half the offsprings genetics are native. Once that offspring breeds its genetics are 3/4 native and so on. There is a reason you do not have better deer know and it is not genetics. The only way it can benefit is if you can add over enough new doe at one time so that they are 50% or more of the total herd.

You would be better off giving me that money and I can bet the results you see will be the same. You are wasting you time and money trying to add a deer a year into that size area. Once that doe breeds half the offsprings genetics are native. Once that offspring breeds its genetics are 3/4 native and so on. There is a reason you do not have better deer know and it is not genetics. The only way it can benefit is if you can add over enough new doe at one time so that they are 50% or more of the total herd.

That's helpful, and does a better job getting at what I was thinking when I suggested more than one/year.

You would be better off giving me that money and I can bet the results you see will be the same. You are wasting you time and money trying to add a deer a year into that size area. Once that doe breeds half the offsprings genetics are native. Once that offspring breeds its genetics are 3/4 native and so on. There is a reason you do not have better deer know and it is not genetics. The only way it can benefit is if you can add over enough new doe at one time so that they are 50% or more of the total herd.

I think the idea is the doe is bred before release so the offspring would be 100% but 1 doe is not enough.

You can buy some from breeders for cheap in the spring. They usually have a surplus and have to eliminate them for costs giving you negotiating power. I have seen 10 sold for under 500 bucks/head live bred not A.I.'d You would probably still need more than ten to have any lasting effect but hey in a couple of years there could be a few real good bucks out there. Then again those are pen raised doe and probably won't survive long in the wild. They walk perimeter fences looking for water trophs instead of finding real water sources. Not to mention that if there genetics are northern chances of surviving in Texas are slim anyway.

On the other hand, what is going on with the other 9100 acres?

Your assumassuming they will stay on 300acres, and your assuming the will survive long enought to fawn.

Personally the only genetics I want on my place are the ones mother nature put there. If I was in your coop I may just shoot shovel and shut up about your ear tagged doe.

The only cheap deer in the spring would be deer that I would not want to release on my land. They are cheap for a reason. Breeders can keep them another year to sell later if they want to feed them. Deer in pens are not dumb. They do not forget how to eat or know what water smells and tastes like. Pen raised deer do well in the wild if they are raised correctly and acclimated in the pens for release. Also you are [censored]-u-ming that all deer in pens are northern genetics, so I am [censored]-u-ming you know very little about the deer breeding industry since many deer breeders have native Texas genetics in their pens. Deer did not just drop down from the heavans above into breeding pens in Texas 30 yrs ago.

Im not claiming to know a whole lot about it. I was just trying to help the man with his questions and if he did decide to buy deer do it cheaply. I wasn't trying to help you stock does on your land or on mine. I never said deer in pens are dumb just that they are pen raised. Like you said have to be raised properly. Not questioning your all knowing deer knowledge but Im not making assumptions like you either. Otherwise I would assume something about you from this post.

I worked at deer breeding facility when I was younger and trying to be helpful with the knowledge and experience I have.(Not trying boast or impose knowledge and opinions) I am glad that I do not know more about it because the whole industry is stupid and bound to crash eventually. Thanks for the insults. I am aware deer didn't just drop from the heavens into breeding pens. If he bought them in Texas he likely wouldn't have to worry about it but I was simply trying to say avoid northern genetics for Texas. Im sure he can ask you if he has anymore questions about deer or Heaven or Texas.

Man some of you take yourselves too seriously. Sometime I wonder if you do realize that we are talking about animals that dont always perform exactly like we wish they would.

I think its a matter of weighing my options. I understand the risks but there is also a risk that the feeder fence becomes disabled and it allows pigs in to eat all of your protein. But that doesnt keep any of us from feeding protein does it?

I see my experiement as a way to improve the land that has been granted to me by God first (even if it is a small %). And a way to improve my hunting experience second.

To answer some of yalls questions.
- I feel we have a pretty good chance of keeping the doe and any offspring on our property with the resources that we have provided the animals in our area. (4 protein feeders, 6 spin feeders, 4 watering holes, and plenty of cover in a 600 acre area)

- The whole co-op is on a conservative harvesting plan so there is not overkilling being done.

- I understand the deteriation of genetics through the generations but the original breeder is going to hopefully be around for more than one season and the idea is to add one (or two as some of you have stated) each year to soon enough have an over all better genetic spread over the property. (We also make it a priority to cull deer off the property with a higher frequency than to take a trophy.)

Please bear in mind this is a lifelong process to hopefully allow my 2 year old daughter the opportunity to take multiple deer bigger than anything I have ever seen.

It is "ideas" and "stuff" like this that is helping to put hunting out of the price range of the average person.