Thread: Fallow behaviour

You never know where you might find them Bully and they can become very quiet around farm animals
I used to live and farm on the road behind the PN airport - the Mangaone Stream ran through our place - a bit of blackberry and rubbish here and there along the stream
A fallow doe lived on the place for several years - I often saw it out with the ewes in the morning - she would let me get about 50m away on the bike before she would run off back down to the stream
I put some ducks down one night and didn’t get them all so went back next day with the Lab - he went into a heap of blackberry after a duck - but out came the doe
It eventually disappeared - so I guess someone nailed it
My experience with fallow on Raetihi farm/bush country is they spend a lot of time sitting around in the sunshine - these were preggy does

See a few of these waiting for mum to come back and get them - mum may have grazed off round the corner

Or yearlings that got kicked out and mated up with some sheep

All pretty safe as I only shoot young bucks