WHITETAIL DEER - BREEDING
In climates with cold seasons, whitetail deer follow a well timed rutting period. The colder the climate, the more rigidly set is the season of abundance, and timing is critical if the animals and their young are going to get the nourishment they need when they need it most.

In tropical climates breeding is more laid back, and whitetail can even breed year round. In cold climates, however, a doe that produces late fawns is more likely to face winter with her fawns still too young, so that they cannot survive the starvation and stress of winter. At the same time she has been run down by nursing and has not had time to fatten herself up so that she can hold up to the winter. A doe that has a too-early fawn risks the chance that springtime will not be there yet when she desperately needs quality food to nourish herself and produce rich milk for her fawns. Nature strictly culls the cold weather animals that do not follow the calendar.
THE SPECIES
HABITAT
DIET
DIGESTION
SURVIVAL
RANGE
BREEDING


COURTSHIP
ANTLERS
FAWNS
TAME WHITETAIL
MULE DEER AND BLACKTAIL
THEIR FUTURE
ANIMALS


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