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anniegetyourgun

Well I myself have never actually been in a situation where i have seen a baby or young deer taken from a mother deer but i do know that the mother will often leave the baby for a large period of time to forage for food. I`ve always heard that when people find a baby deer they often assume that the baby has either been abandoned or that the fawns mother has been killed. Acording to game officals this is not true , if the mother is`nt harmed she will definately return to the fawn.
I have myself seen livestock that had been seperated from their young and they bawl and bawl, sometimes for a couple days or more. Trying to get the little one to come to them. As most livestock are used to human intervention where people sometimes seperate cows and calves this still seems to cause the mother a great deal of distress. Even when the mother is in site of its own calve. My uncle once had a cow that would charge us kids when we got near her calves. So since livestock are animals too i would assume a mother deer would also mourn her calve as other animals would. Up to a certain age any way. I think after the urge to mate agin comes to the mother the female deer will then seperate from her young one to start the reproduction period anew. So i am assuminmg that deer like other mothers do have a connection to their young, at least to a certain time period is over.

We once had two horses-not related. One was a female and one a male. The female was sold and loaded into a pickup and taken away. The male stood by the fence nickering for her until she was out of site. He was then left alone as these were the only two horses we had at the time. The male would run the fence line for days nickering at any trucks comming by waiting for her to return. So this is another example of animal atachments. So i have to assume an animals mothering instinct would make her very attached to her young. I cant think of another place than in the animal kingdom that mother hood is better demonstrated.

trmichels

Does drive their fawns away in the spring, before they have a new fawn. So, it is something they are used to. Does don't typically worry over a dead/lost fawn morre than a day or two. Whether or not they "feel" love, sadness, remorse or panic is something we may never rally know. I think they simply "react" to current conditions.

T.R. Michels

T.R. Michels

timbercruiser

I can't understand why anybody would want to shoot a fawn. Good chance it will be a little buck, potential trophy.

jred

To answer in as simply as I can, yes I am sure there is bond between the fawn and its mother, the doe.

And when taken suddenly before the mother doe would naturaly ween the faw, this time duration being about a year or so.

I do not agree with shooting and yearling or FAWN! and I would emagine that most hunters out there would be able to make a destiction between a inmature deer and a mature one.

As far as the mother doe seaching for it's young, yes it will. A member of our camp took a older fawn with a rifle, spooked the mother ran off and very shortly after, while the member was field dressing the fawn, the mother doe came right back to the same spot, and was shot as well.

It came back to find it's young. I any case I didn't condone this happening.

Why some hunter choose to harvest very young I have been told that the meat is very tender like veal.

Happy hunting!

KEEP HUNTING THE GREAT OUTDOORS & GOD ALIVE, PASS IT ON!

skeeter 7MM

I personally won't shot a doe with fawns or a fawn with a doe. This is not b/c i believe the fawns will parish or feel lost, just my own beliefs. I have seen does shot that had fawns and the fawns will circle back to see where mom is, they don't usually spook more like just looking to see her, I guess this is why I don't personally do it. I have a heart that gets tugged and don't think of my self as a killer or family wrecker. I really don't think they feel love like we know as they drive the fawns off, so it is more of a protector, survival rule. They will also drive them away in cycle and then return to sometimes be a group again, but other times I think the fawn just moves on. Since I have seen many fawns by themselves in the rut and after.

Fawns do taste good, but so do dry does who never had fawns and aren't stressed. I shot one such doe on Saturday night, dry as bone big and very fat...she tastes as good as any fawn. I think a lot of people take what is available, if a fawn is in the lane a fawn it is, so they don't let a lot of deer walk to see the differences between immature and mature.

Deer can survive many obstacles, I think they are one of the most hearty and adapatable animals on the planet. I really don't see them searching high and low or even worrying about mom or fawn for too long....just continue to thrive and produce.

Afterall they don't have OPRAH.....LOL