Ok who thinks button bucks get to bred does?
I know they do as I've seen it in action. But wonder if it happens much.

Chasing or actual breeding?

Both .

Well 4 month old goats can breed.

Most of our does don’t settle for “younger” bucks. Saw a spike get mule kicked a couple of weeks ago. Guess the doe got tired of being harassed. Believe it or not the spike lost his urge after that kick. It hurt me just watching it, lol. I have seen younger bucks chase until a big boy catches her scent then they send the younger boys packing. I’ve never seen an inferior buck on lockdown with a doe.

It depends how early they're born but they get dispersed from family groups mid-October to eliminate the potential of interbreeding so- nature says yes to the possibility. In a well balanced deer herd, I'm sure that testosterone gets suppressed by mature bucks.

Ok savell call me a deer perv.

Most bucks, even farm raised under the best nutrition, don’t reach sexual maturity until they’re 7-8 months old. So while nothing is impossible, its highly unlikely. Its certainly not something that happens often.

Also, riding doesn’t equal breeding. Riding is a sign of a doe coming into heat, but all ages of both sexes will ride others. Riding is monitored to track breeding readiness of cattle to be artificially inseminated, its something all ungulates do

I don't know if young of the year buttons are mature enough yet in most areas. I guess age, which would be factored by when the doe was bred, would determine that.
I do know 18 month spikes can and will. Though in a 50:50 population with well represented older age class bucks they usually get kicked to the curb.

Ive never seen button bucks show any indication of taking in on any rut type activity. If that pic if your only evidence of if it i word say they are more than likely playing

Either have I

Nope

After 46 years of hunting, I had a button buck grunting and chasing a doe during the first week of November. Not sure what happened after they ran by me, but he sure was working hard at getting that doe.

I’ve seen them try. When I guided mule deer hunters many years ago there were times we would find a herd buck with oh maybe between 5 and 10 does. Working up on them or just watching there movements another group or maybe a roaming buck would cause the herd buck to give chase and run him off. As soon as the big buck was busy any young bucks shadowing, and there always was, would immediately start mounting. Sometimes it was buttons.
I’m not sure it could take, or if the button understands it all. It may just be instinct.

Osky

This one didn’t appear to be rutting last week.

Nice pic Coos

The one I shot this year was responding to a combination of doe bleats and grunt tube calls, so maybe?

anything after about 4 months I have to watch with the sheep. so I would have to say they will breed.