Deer management is necessary to protect habitats and their associated species, forestry and agricultural crops.
Deer are prolific breeders and, if numbers are allowed to increase unchecked, they may become prone to starvation and disease. They are also involved in 74,000 annual recorded vehicle collisions each year.
Deer are also a significant problem for farmers and foresters in many areas and will damage and destroy crops if left unchecked.
Deer Management Objectives
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To control deer numbers to prevent over population (Deer can be a vector for TB)
To limit deer impacts on human interests (reduce the damage to crops and woodlands)
To utilise the deer resource (Introduce high quality protein into the food chain)
Maintenance culls
For a population being maintained at a particular level, the cull for each age/sex class will be similar from year to year. Again, achieving the female cull is a priority but during this phase it is possible to be more selective about which individual animals are culled, according to objectives.
If there are too many females in the population, the total cull rates and the proportion of females in the cull will have to be significantly higher. If population numbers cannot be estimated then other measures such as habitat impact assessments may determine cull levels, see example in the next section
The below are very approximate guides for cull targets to achieve a maintenance cull, presuming that sex ratios are approximately equal:
Red, Fallow and Sika populations will require a cull of at least 20% of the population.
Roe, Muntjac and Chinese water deer will require a cull of around 30% of the population. At least half of the total cull for all species should be females.
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