I'm curious how many times a given doe will allow herself to be serviced, or mounted for that matter? Do they just run from a buck after they were already serviced once? I can't ever recall reading anything regarding this.
If it's the right buck, Jeff....I don't think she'll run FROM him, at all.....lol. It's a good question, though. It's well-known that a doe can drop twins/triplets sired by multiple bucks. I'm wondering myself how this occurs if she allows the first buck to breed her numerous times.
As long as a doe is still in estrous she will allow herself to be bred to a buck she is willing to breed. If one buck stays with her and breeds her mulitple times, but then moves on it is likely that another buck will find her and try to breed her as well.
I was aware of the above. My question is after she's been bred once, will she continue to allow other bucks to mount her? I know other bucks will try.
the answer to your ? is yes... sometims a bucks efforts aren't perfect, dna tests have proven that fawns from a doe giving birth to twins or triplets have had dna from different bucks. so yes it can happen. does go into estrus and the bucks compete for the opportunity to breed them. this is usually done by the dominant buck in the area. if a doe doesn't concieve, she goes out of estrus for approx. a month and then enters a 2nd estrus cycle. this can happen a few times, i believe up to 4 times. that's why some fawns are born later and in your area, and can be a couple of months different in age
I'm in a rural area, and about 3 years ago during the rut I walked out my kitchen door and heard a deer running through the leaves towards my house. Out of the woods comes Peg (a 3 legged deer we named Peg that we often saw around the house and at the bird feeders, pun intended) and onto my yard just off of my patio. I froze by my door, and Peg stopped about 15 yards away, totally unaware of my presence. She stood there puffing and seconds later I hear grunting coming from behind her. This little buck ( about a 6 inch fork on one side and no antler on the other, very small deer) comes running and grunting out of the woods. He gets to Peg and lip curls, sniffs etc, and then right there before my very eyes, 15 yards away, she allows him to mount her. It had to be his first time because wow was he uncoordinated, but of course with 3 legs she couldn't support his weight real well either and the whole situation was a little awkward for everyone involved. Anyway he finally gets his act together. He repeats the mounting and breeding process 3 times before finally backing off, and she stood for him the entire time. He finishes the process and finally backs off, tongue hanging out, puffing up a storm. The whole process took about 5 minutes. Now I was always under the impretion a buck stayed with a doe and defended her the whole time she was in estrous and accepting. But he simply walked away. She stood there puffing, and he just very slowly walked back into the woods and disapeared. I was waiting for him to light a cigarette for cripes sake. He was gone and she stood there for another ten minutes catching her breath and composing herself, even put fresh lipstick on. She finally left the yard in the opposite direction he went and also dissapeared into the woods. I actually ended up shooting Peg in January of that year. She fell through the ice of Cottonwood River and was unable to pull herself back on top. By the time I saw her she wasn't lifting her head and was covered in clumps of ice. The ice wouldnt hold me to get to her, so after receiving permission, I put her down. Couldnt bare to see and old friend like that suffer a slow death, so I never got to see that offspring. At any rate, I learned a few things that day: 1. A dominant buck does not do all the breeeding because he certainly was not the dominant buck of the area, and it is physically impossible to do. 2. A buck does not always hang with a doe and fend off other bucks the entire time a doe is in estrous. In this case he satisified his urges and move on. 3. Had another buck been in the area immediatley when she left, he could have bred her and she would have had multiple donors in her at the same time possibly resulting in different daddys. 4. A doe apparently breeds when she needs to breed and doesnt always have the luxury of waiting for the perfect buck to happen along, because no deer would have settled for this guy.
