what do you call a yearling?
 

I have seen several references to yearling deer weighing 40lbs to 50lbs.Are these really yearlings or are they fawns.The definition of yearling is an animal that is in it's second year.

year·ling (P)Pronunciation Key(yîrlng)
n.
[ol][*]An animal that is one year old or has not completed its second year[/ol]

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Stubby, I've never looked up the definision of "yearling!"
I've always thought of them as being this years newborns! Not as 1 1/2 year olds! I guess I learn something new every-once-in-a-while!

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I used to think a yearling is this years fawns. But this years fawns are just that a buck fawn or a doe fawn! To me a yearling is a deer that is 1 year or older! JMO!

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1. tender!

2. good eatin'!

Any deer that was born last year 2004 is what I would call a "yearling" this year.

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Stubble I too have thought the same thing just never shared it. Eaither people just dont know or they dont want to say "i shot a fawn" to their friends. Not that I think that it makes a bad hunter cause uncle matts part 1 and 2 are right on and i know from experiance.

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Good to know. Ive probably faulted on this at numeruos ocations.

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Exactly what I was thinking.It sounds better to some peopleto say thatthey shot a yearling.

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Technicaly I'm probably wrong but I refer to spotted deer as fawns, youth deer as yearlings. Don't forget that we are in the great white north stubble, from what I here there are some big racked bucks in Texas that aren't much bigger than our dogs.

I call this a yearling, what do you think, fawn?

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If the deer is in it's first hunting season, I call it a fawn.
That 2nd year, it's a yearling.
When we register a deer in NH, we identify the deer as male/female...adult/fawn.

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Unle matt took mine, I was going to say tender;)

Paul

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I’ve never really put any thought behind it. Any animal really small, we would just called them fawns and if the were any bigger they would be a small doe or buck...[>:]

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I don't really call anything a yearling to be honest. A deer born that spring is fawn or a lamb to some people i hunt with, 1 year and a half old is a small buck or doe, then it goes buck/doe, then big buck/big doe.


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RE: what do you call a yearling?
 

I think a yearly is a deer that was just born this year.

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According to the dictionary the definition of a yearling is a deer in it's second year.Icopied the definition in my first post.

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Come hunting season I refer to a deer born the prior spring as a yearling.Taking Gene Wensel's advice from one of his books many years ago.I would never shoot a yearling but for those who do or for those who shoot a doe that has "yearlings"with it,it sounds a lot less harsh.

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We call a 1.5 yr old a yearling. Also if I'am not mistaken this topic has been discussed b4. We took a nicebutton buck (fawn) this fall that wieghed 54 lbs. hanging on the butchers scale (ready to be cut ) compared to a yearling doe (small doe)that wieghed out at 70 lbs. not much size difference between the two.

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Stubble, there are 3 and four year olds in the FL. Keys (Key Deer) that weigh 55-65lbs!:DThe largest deer start in Canada and get smaller as you come south! I go to North FL or South GA to be able harvest a 160-175 lb deer!

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this years... last years... delicious... last years is a yearling...

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That really makes meglad that I hunt where we have 300lb+ bucks.

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:D:D:D:DYeah, but we have the Bucks to go and shoot those 300lb'ers!:D:D:D:D

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fawndo... yummy

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if its a year old i call it a yearling.

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To me anything born in the spring of that year is a fawn(ie spring 2005). A yearling is a 1-1 1/2 year old animal or the previous years fawn(ie spring 2004).

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Once they loose their spots I consider them a yearling. Does can breed at 6 months old. So what you consider a doe fawn born that spring can breed before the end of the year. think dog years

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a yearling to me is an adolescent deer. if it has spots, then it's a fawn.

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Once they lose their spots I do not consider them fawns...we then call them "this years deer." I looked up the definition of fawn from Merriman-Webster and get the following:

Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English foun, from Middle French feon, faon young of an animal, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin feton-, feto, from Latin fetus offspring -- more at FETUS
1 : a young deer; especially : one still unweaned or retaining a distinctive baby coat

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The deer born the same spring as hunting season are fawns/calves/lambs. After that I call them does/cows/ewes. Thats what my tag says for antlerless deer and elk. Cow/Male calf/Female calf. (you check which one it is).

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Hence the word: Yearling!:)

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I've often thought that it was amusing that folks that take a young animals just do NOT want to admit that that lil' basket racked buck they are bragging about is actually a YEARLING! :D

I guess it just doesn't sound macho. In my area of west central Illinois they are called FAWNS the first year and YEARLINGS the next season when they are only 18 month old animals.

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I must be wrong but I call a deer in it's first hunting season a fawn, 2nd. season (1 1/2 yr old) a yearling. From there it's a 2 1/2 , 3 1/2 etc. Have never shot one in it's first season.

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You are not wrong.