fresh feburary scrapes.....

[Bayshorebuck8]

Scouting today i noticed fresh scrapes opened up two or three, real fresh...... near doe bedding..... could this be bucks responding to late estrous does?

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[Bronc]

It's yearling bucks that are making them.

Bronc

[Ghost Hunter]

Not sure where you are at? Did you have snow that has or is melting off?

[Bayshorebuck8]

Michigan, and no...... these are fresh its not from snow that melted because i was just in the area a week ago and they were not there.

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[whitetailassasin]

I saw them with Bayshore fresh pawed out dirt and more than just one. Big tracks in them as well.

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[Ghost Hunter]

Michigan, and no...... these are fresh its not from snow that melted because i was just in the area a week ago and they were not there.

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I was thinking maybe they cleaned them out after the snow melted down.

[dirt nap giver]

I've seen this before in mild winters past

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[Lockdown]

I had a scrape near a camera location that was hit around mid January this year. Not something I'm used to seeing...

[Wapiti]

I pulled a camera yesterday, which showed an ~125" buck dogging a doe on Feb 2nd. Last night I glassed 2 dinks still sparring.

Buck/doe ratio here isn't that good and lots of bucks are still holding their antlers.

[wickedbruiser]

I wrote a post regarding the same topic last week. Scrapes were torn up again with fresh dirt. There is really no way of telling which bucks did it since I have 3 mature and 3 younger leaving 2 at 1.5. My guess is that the younger bucks are marking as an insecurity since the older bucks are coming around daily and pushing them around. All bucks still have not dropped yet.

There is 1 yearling doe fawn. But she is with her mother and not being pushed off. So I don't think a late season estrus is going on.

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[wickedbruiser]

I wrote a post regarding the same topic last week. Scrapes were torn up again with fresh dirt. There is really no way of telling which bucks did it since I have 3 mature and 3 younger leaving 2 at 1.5. My guess is that the younger bucks are marking as an insecurity since the older bucks are coming around daily and pushing them around. All bucks still have not dropped yet.

There is 1 yearling doe fawn. But she is with her mother and not being pushed off. So I don't think a late season estrus is going on.

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Forgot to add. These scrapes were right after a snow melt. This year is the most buck activity I've seen in my general area. So my assumption is primary scrapes for territorial purposes.

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[semperfidelis]

I was out scouting yesterday and found 2 x fresh scrapes. I'm in northern VA and we did just have some serious snow melt. This find caught me by surprise but each was fresh and contained deer hoof prints.

[GRUD]

I have observed breeding in mid February before. When I lived out in the country a ways I watched a 6pt breed a doe in my yard the second week of February. I believe at times a doe who did not get bred may come back into heat.

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[IkemanTx]

Pen raised does have been excluded from bucks to keep breeding from happening and have come into estrous up to 5 times. If buck/doe ratios are off, or a doe aborted for some reason, it is completely possible that a mature doe went un-bred.

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[Stanley]

I saw a couple of bucks working scrapes in late January. It's just what they do.