Found a fawn today at work

Patchman

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I'm an electrical lineman. Today we were going to change a pole in a cow pasture at the edge of some woods. I walked up to the pole to inspect it and found this.

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It was still alive. Must have got separated from it's mother. I called a friend of mine who lives in the area. He's already bottle feeding another fawn. But, it took off for the woods as soon as we started setting up our trucks. Deer are really overpopulated in this area.
 
Leave that fawn alone!

Mrs. Deer goes off into the forest to find food, and leaves the fawn by itself.
Fawns are born with no scent, and they just hole up until mama comes back to give the milk.

Ninety nine percent chance that fawn was not abandoned.
 
What luck to see a fawn like this. I have seen mostly yearlings but never one this young. :)
simonkenton is right and unless something unusual happens, the Doe will be back for it. ;)


Be Safe !!!
 
Ditto

Leave the fawn alone. The mother will place the fawn in hiding and do her business. The fawns are genetically programed to stay put as it is their best defense.
 
Yeah, fawn was hiding. Must be pretty young still.


If the mother thought you where a danger she would leave the area hoping you follow her while the fawn hides.
 
Leave that fawn alone!

Mrs. Deer goes off into the forest to find food, and leaves the fawn by itself.
Fawns are born with no scent, and they just hole up until mama comes back to give the milk.

Ninety nine percent chance that fawn was not abandoned.


ABSOLUTELY!!! ^

From: http://www.ncwildlife.org/NewsReleases/051110_Public_Urged_to_Leave_Fawns_Alone.htm

RALEIGH, N.C. (May 11, 2010) – The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission is imploring people not to approach, touch, feed or move white-tailed deer fawns this spring.

Most fawns are not abandoned, though people who see them often think they are and attempt to rescue them. Contact with a human may harm the animal more than help it.

Whitetails are a “hider” species, which means the female will hide her fawn in vegetation during the first two or three weeks of its life as she feeds. Spotted and lacking scent, fawns are well-camouflaged and usually remain undetected by predators. The doe will return to the fawn several times a day to nurse and clean it, staying only a few minutes each time before leaving again to seek food. A human may never see the doe and think the fawn needs help or food. But staying away is a better option.

The fawn is well-equipped to protect itself. By the time it is 5 days old, already it can outrun a human. At 3 to 6 weeks of age, fawns can escape most predators.

Unless a fawn is in imminent danger — for example, under attack by dogs or injured in a tractor mowing accident — the best decision always is to leave it alone. If you are concerned about the fawn, leave the area and come back to check on the fawn the next day. Do not remain in the area. Does are very cautious and will not approach a fawn if they sense danger.

If a fawn is in the exact location when you check on it the following day and bleating loudly, or if a fawn is lying beside a dead doe (likely at the side of a highway), do not take the fawn into your possession. It is illegal to remove a fawn from the wild. Only fawn rehabilitators with a permit from the Commission may keep white-tailed fawns in captivity for eventual release. Instead, contact the Wildlife Resources Commission at (919) 707-0040 for the telephone number of a local, permitted fawn rehabilitator or see a list of fawn rehabilitators at www.ncwildlife.org.

For more information on the dangers of disturbing young wildlife, see “Wildlife Commission Urges Public to Leave Young Animals Alone.”
 
I found a hider one night when "working"... too bad I was doing feral hog eradication with the dogs when we heard them "bay up".... Glad we only turned one bulldog loose... We heard a squeal and thought "little pig"... we got there and after getting the dogs off the little bugger, I carried it to the opposite end of the clearing and put it down while checking it over... No severe obvious injury and it walked off without any severe limping... It was bleating out for momma the whole way so I can only hope they hooked back up...

Brent
 
Serious cute factor,,,

I have been told they will lay there for hours,,,
Only moving if something forces them.

My neighbor took a picture of a fawn and three tiny hound pups all curled up together,,,
I'll e-mail him and try to post a copy if it.

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What a cutie. Hope its mama found it.

In Europe, it's common to raise deer domestically. My wife & step-daughter came to visit me in Germany the last time we were stationed there & the kiddo got a huge kick out of the deer eating from her hand & petting them.
 
How do you guys keep from getting eat up by chiggers and ticks?

I use to live in Louisiana and the chiggers were horrible! Up here there not to bad really. As for ticks, you have to be careful. Haven't found one on me so far this year though.

As for the fawn now I know what to do in the future if it ever happens again. Had never seen one that young before. It was about the size of a Beagle. Like I said the deer are way overpopulated in this area. The local police have been giving permission to shoot deer if they are in the city limits. Last year, I drove by the local high school and I bet there were 40 deer standing on the football field. If you can't kill a deer in this area then you don't need to be hunting. Not many good bucks though. If it's got spikes it's down!
 
How do you guys keep from getting eat up by chiggers and ticks?

Flowers of sulpher, it is a powder you put on your cloths. Keeps all them nasties away.

Around my kennel area I mix up a few gallons of tick and flea dip, then spray it all atound the area including the trees. Keeps them critters flea and tick free.

Mosquitoes get a spray from Cutter, bug free back yard. I spray 4 acres and it lasts 4 weeks or so, spray 3 times a year and go out at night to a bug free deck and yard.
 
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