opinions..

[byron 1,279]

a mate of mine who,s a keeper in norfolk came over a few weeks back. and the talk turned to deer [plenty on his estate] he was telling me the reds on there are as big/bigger at a year old, than scottish ones. now i have no need to dispute this [what do i no] but like he says the food situation is better in norfolk than scotland. what do you lads think on this...

thanks byron...

[byron 1,279]

here,s one he was on about[norfolk red]

[Simoman 110]

Yes I have heard the English reds grow a great deal bigger than there northern relatives and you would imagine Scottish reds have a harder time than English deer, nice stag byron................

[flytie 1]

I know there are some estates in Scotland that produce stage over 20 stone regularly but not many. Lowland animals do not have such a hard time surviving the winters. Consequently they do grow bigger on average, at least according to everything I have read that has been published by the BDS.

 

ft

[nightstalkeruk 0]

Thats a nice beast you got there Byron well done

 

NS

[sounder 9]

i heard it down to food and land there on i see it here with the fallow up in the mountain there are black in color where down in the low lands they are what we call rainbow red in color they say here it's the bog water and less minerals they do and don't get !! see pic

 

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there is a sizes difference too i find the low land ones are bigger

just my in put on what i see

 

cheers sounder

[SNAP SHOT 194]

Very nice animal,

 

yes lowland deer will always have a greater weight, as food is more plentifull, and not as hard to come by, and may have a greater nutrient value.

 

snap.