Triplets?

GMMAT · 05-08-2008, 09:27 AM

In the fawn (OK. "yearling") thread....we were discussing orphaned fawns. It was "proposed" that orphaned fawns take up with other doe groups.

Having said that....I know I've seen does with 3 fawns. Is this a product of:

[ul][*]Triplets?[*]orphaned fawn taking up with another doe?[*]Mama might be elsewhere?[/ul]
I have a friend who watched the same group, last year....where a doe had 4 fawns with her.

I actually don't know what's possible in fawn rearing. Who knows how many theyre capbale of having in one season?

Thanks.

Rick James · 05-08-2008, 09:30 AM

There is one doe on my property that frequents the food plot in front of my camp that had 2 seperate batches of triplets 2 years in a row. She is huge, looks like a small moose and is at least 5.5 years old now. She is the one I missed at 10 yards last year when I hit the side of the blind with the arrow..........[8D].

And yes, orphaned fawns will take up with another family group. The fawns from the doe Rob shot last year started hanging out with the doe that has triplets and that group of 6 still frequents the same plot on a daily basis.

mobow · 05-08-2008, 09:33 AM

Jeff, I think the possibility of any of those 3 are very real. Does do indeed have the occasional triplet....Some have just "adopted" other yearlings....and I'm quite certain that in some cases the other doe is just off doing something else.

I also think that in some cases, they begin their own family group, and don't join up with another group.

130woodman · 05-08-2008, 09:37 AM

I have seen does with 3 fawns in mid summer. I think they were triplettes.

Schultzy · 05-08-2008, 11:14 AM

For a while in my woods it was more common to see a doe with three fawns then it was with one fawn. It use to happen allot more in my neck of the woods but the last few years I don't see it as much as I use to.

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Javabird17 · 05-09-2008, 07:08 AM

fawns do attach to a doe if they lose their mother...

A doe having quads is possible by very uncommon. I would be amazed all four surviving if I saw one that did.

twildasin · 05-09-2008, 07:20 AM

Jeff when I shot that doe last year the 2 "fawns" that were with her both button bucks picked up another doe with 2 "fawns" and they came by my stand everynight! It was her a "fawn" doe and 3 button bucks!