Thread: Herd management and Playing our part

Originally Posted by gimp

It would tend to be the case that for more or less every herd, other than the Nelson herd, that nutrition and age are the most significant limiting factors.

Genetics and age I think are the limiting factors. I have seen stags on a large area of private land with excellent genetics and managed poorly produce big heads.They were under year round feed stress. They could have been bigger with better feed but still produced 300DS plus size heads.
And by the way the Nelson herd now produces some of the biggest free range stags there is. They are definitely not the the original genetics though.