If I'm not mistaken a yearling is a year old deer, which would be sometime in May or June they would be considered a yearling. Any how I understand what you mean and I have no problem with shooting a doe with fawns. That argument is pretty far fetched if you ask me that the fawns won't make it if the mother is shot. Dammit, I voted for the wrong one accidently. I voted to pass on the big doe with litttle ones, I meant to vote to shoot her.