Holy **** a fawn born 2 days ago?
 

Ok I have seen some weird things in my life, but I have never seen a fawn born in October? We were in the blind this evening in behind a subdivision. We were just getting ready to pack up when my buddy says deer... I said where? He said look down. Guys I am not kidding this fawn was the size of my wife's house dog and looked like it was still wet and very wabbly. Didn't see the mother.Well we let it go on about its business and on our way out we ran into the lady who lives in front of the field we are set up on and she said that the doe was bedded in her back yard two days before and that she had seen her drying the fawn about 12 pm. What in the heak?

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Hopefully it gets through the winter!

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we have mild winters, but the fact of a fawn being born in Oct. What is going on? We have seen alot of small fawns lately, but this was rediculous

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Did you happen to find the deer you hit and posted about while you were out there?

http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=3084982

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Good question Matt.

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That's a legit question.

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well that just means the mom doe came into heat late and needs to eventually be taken out near the end of the season when that fawn is old enought to support itself. You dont want does that come into heat that late

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I don'tthink if it was that she came late in heat as a character trait. I would be willing to bet that the buck to doe ratio is way out of wack and she didn't get bred until she came into estrous for the second or third time.

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Update on deer hit is on the post. Thanks.

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our buck to doe ratio is way out of wack.

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More like the 5th or 6th estrous.

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It's my understanding that the reason we have a 'rut' is because that is when does come into heat after having given birth earlier in the year... i wouldn't assume that it is the rarest thing in the world to have had a doe come into heat outside of the 'norm' and then give birth at a weird time. I've never seen it- but what do I know!?

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She will come in to heat just like a human woman that is not preganet. Once a month like clock work. Most of the time a buck only has enough testostrone to actually want to breed from the time he sheds his velvet till his antlers drop.

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Saw a doe with her fawn about 2 weeks ago. Fawn was really small and had all of its spots still! Spots were bright white and had no signs of fading yet. Seen a few fawns since then and all of them have lost their spots completely.

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It is unusual, but not unheard of, to have fawns born this late. I have seen nearly term fetuses in does killed in September. Ieven have a picture of twonear term fetuses, butdon't think I'llpost it.This tends to happen more often with young does. A small percentage of doe fawns will go into estrous very late, and consequently be bred very late. As has already been said, it also tends to happen more when buck to doe ratios are very skewed.

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I have seen two spotted fawns in December. One in Pennsylvania about 5 years ago and one in Illinois last year. If the doe fails to breed she will come back into estrous every month till she gets pregnant. I also believe that does that miscarry will come back into estrous.

A fawn like the one you saw has a very slim chance of survival in the northern states. The one I saw last December was on a very bitter cold day. It was barely able to move, was alone and looked near death. After watching itfor a while, I decided not to let it suffer any more.

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Yea...I can't see a fawn suriving a winter in the area's I hunt in at this time of year.

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