Rotwild (red Deer)

Question 1

What is the breeding season of red deer called and when is it?

Answer 1

Brunftzeitzeit, September-October

Question 2

How long is the gestation period for red deer?

Answer 2

33-34 weeks

Question 3

When are the young born? And how many are born?

Answer 3

May-June, usually one

Question 4

How many teeth do red deer have ?

Answer 4

34 (32 plus the two Grandeln)

Question 5

What is a male red deer called

Answer 5

A hirsch

Question 6

What is a female red deer called?

Answer 6

A Tier

Question 7

What are red deer young called?

Answer 7

A Kalb (males are called a Hirschkalb)

Question 8

What is a herd of red deer called?

Answer 8

A Rudel

Question 9

What are the three classes of stags?
What is an A stag vs a B stag

Answer 9

1 (10 plus years old)
2 (4-9)
3 (1-3)
A is desirable
B is non desirable

Question 10

a. What are the characteristics of an A stag?
b. What are the characteristics of a B stag?

Answer 10

a. A stags have antlers(geweih) longer than their ears, have crowns, and have an overall rectangular shape.
b. B stags have geweih shorter than their ears, do not have crowns, and have a overall triangular shape for their antlers.

Question 11

True or false: the quality of a red deer’s trophy is based on the symmetry of it’s antlers.

Answer 11

False

Question 12

How does one name the type of antlered stag?

Answer 12

One counts the number of tines on the antler and the antler with the most tinted is counted and multiplied times two. (So even if a red deer has six tines on one side and none on the other, it is still a twelver, but it is an ungerade twelver)

Question 13

True or false: red deer wallow

Answer 13

True

Question 14

What is a lehtteir?

Answer 14

The leader of a female herd (about 8-12 animals including females and their young from present and past years)

Question 15

What is the feistzeit

Answer 15

The fat time or pre Brunft. (Usually males are eating to store fat, and rubbing out their antlers.

Question 16

What is a crown? What is a gabble?

Answer 16

A crown is when there are three tines above the mittlesprosse. A gabble is when there are two tines above the mittlesprosse.

Question 17

When do rothirsch rub the bast off their antlers?

Answer 17

The younger ones begin in August, and as they reach their peak, they start earlier in July.

Question 18

When do rothirsch antlers develop?

Answer 18

During the brunftzeit in September-October.

Question 19

When do rothirsch shed their antlers?

Answer 19

In March-April

Question 20

When do rothirsch reach their prime in antler development?

Answer 20

At 10 - 12 years

Question 21

When does a rothirschKalb developer his spikes?

Answer 21

In December-January.

Question 22

At what age are female red deer mature to mate?

Answer 22

15 months