Fawns are dropping
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Ummm.... tender venison.
Cute little guy.
Cute little guy.
- Jul 29, 2014
- 50,063
I hate picking fights with PHDs but, you sure he's a he? Doe fawns have a 'swirl' right were antlers would be. Hard for me to see from my cellie though.
You are right though. 'Chelsea' is cute as a button.
Doco Overboard
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Average gestation period is about 220 days for WT deer if I remeber correctly for the rut junkies.
SKIP
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So that is why only last years born show up at my feeding station.
Abuck
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Hmm, nestled among poison ivy it looks like
Doco Overboard
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They say newborn fawns have no scent for a while. The placenta is found by fox right off.
I hate picking fights with PHDs but, you sure he's a he? Doe fawns have a 'swirl' right were antlers would be. Hard for me to see from my cellie though.
You are right though. 'Chelsea' is cute as a button.
i figured I had a 50/50 shot at getting it right.... we should ask the fawn how they self-identify
- Jul 29, 2014
- 50,063
Lol!
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I wondered about that, too. Drove to Winchester and back on Tuesday, and counted 4-5 bambi-burgers on the side of the road. Real shame. Isn't that unusual for this time of year?
Doco Overboard
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They're establishing new territory and proliferating. At the end of the summer bucks will be getting hit.
- Jul 29, 2014
- 50,063
^^^This. The does are spreading back out to their birthing grounds and summer habitat.
As for the bucks, a lot(not all) will break up when they get 'hard-horned'. In a lot of cases, if mama is no longer around, a buck will take up residence. That depends on a lot of other things too, though.
namrelio
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Abuck
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Excellent quality picture. The wife even liked it.
Thanks. At lunch I just had the cell phone, but then later I went back with a better camera.
The first time it didn't move at all. Not even it's ears, and barely moved it's eyes to track me. When I went back it moved it's ears and eyes, and it's nose kept curling up, trying to get a good whiff of me. I didn't want to do any "imprinting" on a very young animals, so I got away quickly then.
I found a fawn a couple of years ago on the side of Rte. 40 between Aberdeen and Havre de Grace. There was a dead doe nearby and I think it was it's mother. I led it back away from the road but I think it was starving. I found a fawn skeleton on the other side of 40 later so I don't think the fawn made it.
paullwaull
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- Oct 2, 2012
- 28
I almost hit a fawn mowing a week or two ago. Had no clue it was there until it popped up about 5 feet from the deck and then hobbled off. By the way it walked/ran, it had to have been quite fresh.
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