[AUTIGER04]

Look what I found in my back yard. The mother was no where to be found. What should I do?

[KMKeller]

Leave it alone for a bit and see if maybe you scared the mom off. She should come back. If she doesn't by daybreak, grab out the yellow pages and look for wild animal rescue agencies and petting zoos. Either should have someone on staff to help.

[Art Eatman]

If the mama doesn't come back, and/or the animal rescue folks are delayed, you can feed the little critter:

1. Carnation canned milk, mixed one part to three parts water. A doe's milk is pretty thin stuff.

2. Use a regular baby bottle.

3. Take a sponge which has been dampened with warm water and rub its little fanny to trigger the feeding reflex.

BTDT,

Art

[Art Eatman]

The picture is from a long time back, and time has faded it.

Caption contest, anyone?

:), Art

[Atticus]

Art,
I have to wonder if that deer chased mailmen later in life. :D

I have a cat that was raised with dogs. She still growls and runs toward the door when someone knocks. She also retrieves. Pretty funny.

[sm]

1) fawn: " Got Milk?"

2)Dog : " harumph, daddy Art has brought 'em in dressed bigger than you".

[Sisco]

Do deer do things differently in the South? Around here you don't see any fawns until Spring.

[pax]

Art,

My sister raised one of those, a couple years back. He followed her around inside the house like a pet dog and when he got big enough that he wasn't allowed inside, he kept looking in the windows and knocking on the door with his hooves. :D

Somewhere I've got a picture of my five year old carrying him ...

pax

[gun-fucious]

momma will bed them down for a few hours and go foraging

it looks freshly licked

she will be back

[Onslaught]

Do deer do things differently in the South?
Awe come own now, we all do thangs differntly here in the South!
:D
I'm no wildlife expert, but seeing a fawn late in the year is not an unusual sight "hyere in my neck uh the woods"...

[AUTIGER04]

I left the Fawn alone and it was gone this morning.:)

Sisco, Do deer do things differently in the South? Well, The Game Warden said that deer reproduce all year just like any other animal. :D

[Keith]

A friend emailed me a few weeks ago about a fawn she had found along the fence on her property.
Unfortunately, I didn't see the email until some 24 hours after she sent it. Had I seen it, I would have advised her to leave the fawn alone. Before I could reply to the first email, she sent another to tell me she had gone back and picked it up to "save" it. It died within 24 hours.
And she had a doe bleating for its lost fawn along that fence line for the next week...

A shame.

Edited to add: It's real common to find fawns along fences. Momma jumps the fence and the fawn can't. She WILL be back to get that fawn, so leave them alone!

Keith

[Art Eatman]

Bucks generally rut from October on into January, depending on the part of the country and suchlike variables. The gestation period is ??? months. (I once knew, but then I got Old Timer's Dizzies.)

Edit add-on: I went google-izing, and found it's 215 days. Seven months and a week.

http://www.geocities.com/Axiom43/gestation.html

In the FWIW department, I once shot a doe, just before Christmas. Went up to do the field dressing and was startled at seeing extra appendages. And sure enough, the antlers had already been shed.

And I saw two truly nice bucks south of Alpine, Texas, one time, which had beautiful racks--in April.

Go figure...

Art

[Larry Ashcraft]

And I saw two truly nice bucks south of Alpine, Texas, one time, which had beautiful racks--in April.
Saw a whitetail buck here about three years ago with a nice big rack. In JULY. Never did figure that one out.

Mule deer around here rut in Sept.-Oct., but the whitetails around my place rut around Christmas time. At least, that's when the bucks get all stupid and come out in the open with their does.

[rock jock]

Mmmmmm......veal.:D

[Art Eatman]

Puhleeze, rock jock! In Texas, it's called "camp meat", although honor demands they've grown beyond the stage of spots...

:D, Art

[FPrice]

"The picture is from a long time back, and time has faded it.

Caption contest, anyone?"

Rover always had the vague feeling that Mrs. Rover had gotten out of the yard at one time but couldn't quite figure out why.

[cdbeaver]

Possible caption for Art's photo:

"Who's afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"

[Carlos Cabeza]

I found a fawn last spring while 4 wheelin' the back forty. It was caught up in a thorn thicket and seemed to be trapped. I knew not to touch it too much and could hear the doe bleating for it's youngin'. I carefully untangled it and it boing,boing,boing bounced back to momma. It was a moving experience, I got a bit of sand in my eye..................:cool:

I nearly got out my buck knife and .................................just kidding !:D