Usually see the first ones around Mother’s Day weekend around here. My son and I saw this one yesterday afternoon about a mile from the house.
Couple days earlier this year. Rolling the garbage out to the road this morning, saw mom slowly trot away from these two. 50 yards from the house. They tried following her but were pretty wobbly.
By the looks of it these were just born. She came back by them and layed by them for awile, she has them closer to the field edge and cover now. I see the pic doesn't look very good on here compared to what it looks like on the phone I took it on.
Antelope drop this time of year here, horse foals already born. I have to mention all baby cows on cattle ranchers here, pretty cute. Seems the antelope here usually have two as well. Interesting.
Did not know this until recently doing a search but apparently white tail typically have one fawn on their first pregnancy and then more likely 2 or three in succeeding years. I had always thought that twins or triplets were uncommon.. Even old guys can learn something new. Wife found one newborn about 15 yards from the house yesterday. This morning mama had moved it. Two days ago there were 6 does in the back yard and at least 5 are very pregnant.
In past years, I almost stepped on different fawns two different times. Walking through the woods and step over a log and looked before I put my foot down! And one year, while using a push mower, I just about gave one a close shave!!! All that noise and commotion; it still didn't leave. I bet it felt the air from the mower blade; it was that close! Minced venison? They will begin to drop fawns here in a week or two now.
I usually get several when we start mowing hay, they don’t move & can’t be seen down in the hay. My dogs will start fattening up as soon as birthing season starts. Labs & beagles are hell on young deer or at least any lab & beagles I have ever had are/were. If the deer weren’t overpopulated here I might feel differently about it but…
A DNR guy did a study on bears up here. Would literally follow them in the woods 24-7 for 2-3 weeks at a time. He said the predation on fawns was as high as 50%! But, that was right around the time that the wolf packs were established also. I'm sure that number has changed since then.
We have bobcats, coyotes, eagles & dogs to try & help keep the population in check. I doubt they are as good as bears & wolves though. It’s not uncommon to see does chasing coyotes around trying to run them off.
We found two in the woods behind our Castle Rock Lake cabin. I let the grandson touch one with mama snorting up a storm and hoof stomping at us. They were there for three days but she moved them to the neighbors woods this morning. Lee David got a kick out of watching the little guys nurse from inside the cabin using his binocs! She would come about 3 times a day in the daylight to feed the lil buggers. Lee kept a good watch on mama and would yell at us “here she comes they get to eat again”.
