Thread: first fawns

Hi all
farmed deer are mated 3 weeks earlier than the wild ones, stags on farms go out on March 15th normally, and the wild boys get into their work from about the 7th of April so should start to see wild fawns from the first week of Dec. It is about the abundance of food, nature has a way of timing it just right for the mums and their high nutritional needs for feeding a fawn. There will be some silly spikers out there now as they would have been ejected from the family unit, and they will be turning up in the most unexpected places due to not having mum to guide them, I had one follow me along a track for about 5 minutes in the Ruahines once without being scared of my scent , needless to say he made the remainder of the trip in a back pack. The yearling hinds will generally stay with the hind but at distance around fawning, but teaming up when the fawn is able to keep up, hence those family groups of three that are often encountered.

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