re: Pictures of displaced animals

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The deer rut in the marsh early...like Nov

and the gestation period is about 6 months which would put the timing right about now for them to be dropping

Most of that area is area 6, not marsh, and gestation is about 200 days. There are now fawns right now.

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Concern for deer season dates for the Upper Basin in Area 6 which includes the parishes of Pointe Coupee, Avoyelles, West Baton Rouge, Iberville, St. Martin and Assumption.

The breeding range for deer in this area is mid December to mid March with the peak months being January and February and*the average breeding date is January 15th.St. Landry Parish has an average breeding date of January 9th(more December breeding than the other parishes due to restocking), but with this late of a rut could be included with these. The lower Area 6 Parishes of Iberia, St. Mary, Terrebonne, Jefferson and Plaquemines that border the coast have much more December breeding than these others and should not be included with the upper Basin parishes.

With an average breeding date of January 15th,the average fawning date is August 15th.This means that when the bow season opens on October 1st, fawns in the upper Basin are 1 ½ months or less old. Harvest a doe nursing young fawns and the fawns will starve. This is not a good image for hunting or wildlife management. Perhaps it does not hurt the deer population as a whole, but it shows little concern from an animal welfare standpoint.



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The area I am talking about is area 7, south of the Intracoastal, West of the River...that is not area 6! Our season ends at the end of Dec......Our rut is Oct. 7-22, Oct.23-Nov.5 Nov. 6-20, Nov.21-Nov.5, Dec. 4...

Like I said does should be dropping their fawns right about now....

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