good choice?
#4
Don't listen to the last two posts.
Those fawns assuming they were born at the average time in the spring are already weaned, and will more than likely be run off if they are bucks by early next month. So they are completely independent by this point. Now yes, you will see female fawns with a more mature doe late in the season. It is possible that this is its mother but more than likely it is a mature doe of no relation since female fawns are often separated from their mothers during the rut.
Those fawns assuming they were born at the average time in the spring are already weaned, and will more than likely be run off if they are bucks by early next month. So they are completely independent by this point. Now yes, you will see female fawns with a more mature doe late in the season. It is possible that this is its mother but more than likely it is a mature doe of no relation since female fawns are often separated from their mothers during the rut.
#5
P.S.
another doe will not adopt those fawns at this time of the year. It is too close to the rut and those fawns don't need milk. They have been weaned. Now, will the probably herd up with another mature doe? Yes. But thats what it would be, a "herd", because that doe would have no maternal instinct toward the two incoming deer.
another doe will not adopt those fawns at this time of the year. It is too close to the rut and those fawns don't need milk. They have been weaned. Now, will the probably herd up with another mature doe? Yes. But thats what it would be, a "herd", because that doe would have no maternal instinct toward the two incoming deer.
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Fork Horn
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#10
Spike
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I talked with a biologist last year about population control and such he said that if a doe has a button buck following her its fine to shoot the doe and that the young buck will stay within the homerange of his mother, when a doe runs off a male fawn he usually seeks his own territory not always but often. as someone else said fawns and does usually get seperated during the peak of the rut according to him.just my second hand $.02