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WHY MANAGE DEER
It is important to manage deer to ensure a healthy and sustainable deer population in balance with the environment , to protect them from starvation due to overgrazing to reduce potential for disease and from death and injury in road traffic accidents.
It is equally important to prevent deer from causing unacceptable damage to crops and trees and to protect other creatures sharing their habitat from the result of overgrazing. It is important for DEER SUSTAINABILITY that culling is done efficiently and humanely.
WANDERING CRITTERS PEST CONTROL SURREY are seeking permission from landowners / estate managers to shoot and control pests on their land. References / insurances and DBS can viewed.
Muntjac
Muntjac like deciduous or coniferous forests and can also found in scrub and overgrown urban gardens.
Muntjac do not have a defined breeding season, ( rut ) instead they breed all year round and the does can conceive again within days of giving birth. Gestation period of seven months.
Roe deer
Often confusion with the Roe deer and Muntjac.
The Roe is the smallest of our native deer species. Roe colonised UK before its post-glacial separation from continental Europe but after Ireland and western Isles has separated from England and Scotland.
As selective browsers rather than grazers, Roe will remember with each changing season where the best pickings are whether in your rose beds or young tree saplings etc.
ANTLERS :- Roe bucks usually shed their antlers during November – December although older bucks may shed in October
BREEDING:-
Territorial activity peaks when the buck’s testosterone levels are at their highest. The rut then takes place during late July / early August. Individual does entice the bucks to chase them for prolonged periods until mating finally takes place-this will be repeated many times for a day or so.
Roe does only come into oestrus once per year and their urge to mate is very strong. They are also unique amongst deer in that implantation of the fertilised ovum into the womb is delayed for several months.
Fawning is during May with does giving birth to 1- 3 kids.
The kids remain hidden between feeding for the first 7-10 days until they are strong enough to follow their mothers.
