My grandparents used to raise deer and we had 5 total. I can tell you one thing now-99% of the people have know idea how much room and proper food, water, etca deer needs. We built what I thought was a good-sized pen for our first deer, a fawn buck. It cost a couplethousand dollars using a lot of used material and took a few weeks to build. I was only 12 or 13. Looking at that pen today I am glad we know longer have deer, it truly was unsuffiecient for an animalthat will always be wild. It really is a lot of trouble and money and time consuming. We lost fawns, we had neighbor dogs always chasing them, we shot their dogs and got into it with the neighbors over that issue.

Needless to say, that whole deer raising experience made me realize that they are wild animals. Sure they can be somewhat domestic and there are people around here that have several, but in general it is a bad idea.