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spotted fawns this late in the year
« on: November 08, 2009, 08:00:51 PM »
seen several small fawns still with spots  don't remember seeing em this late before  anyone else seen any?
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Re: spotted fawns this late in the year
« Reply #1 on: November 08, 2009, 09:45:16 PM »
didja eat it?
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Re: spotted fawns this late in the year
« Reply #2 on: November 08, 2009, 10:05:12 PM »
just missed it with the left front quarter panel
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Re: spotted fawns this late in the year
« Reply #3 on: November 08, 2009, 10:08:09 PM »
Be careful, you'll bruise the meat.
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Re: spotted fawns this late in the year
« Reply #4 on: November 08, 2009, 10:09:32 PM »
Yong doe bred at the last of the mating season, fair chance they won't make it through a harsh winter.
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Re: spotted fawns this late in the year
« Reply #5 on: November 09, 2009, 04:51:55 AM »
fair chance they won't make it through a harsh winter


thats what i was thinking
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Re: spotted fawns this late in the year
« Reply #6 on: November 09, 2009, 07:49:20 AM »
All of the fawns/yearlings I've seen this year are spot free.
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Re: spotted fawns this late in the year
« Reply #7 on: November 09, 2009, 08:01:57 AM »
i've seen at least 2 in the last week at different locations.
i figure a hard winter will kill em
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Re: spotted fawns this late in the year
« Reply #8 on: November 09, 2009, 10:24:50 PM »
Why wouldn't they survive the winter? Momma won't kick them away until she gets ready to give birth in the spring, so they will have the family group eating together and beadding together.

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Re: spotted fawns this late in the year
« Reply #9 on: November 09, 2009, 10:26:51 PM »
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Momma won't kick them away until she gets ready to give birth in the spring,

If she survives the hunting season.
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Re: spotted fawns this late in the year
« Reply #10 on: November 10, 2009, 04:18:18 AM »
I spotted two fawns the other day, but they had no spots.  Looked like twins - they came up and drank out of the water trough while I was riding our colt in the corral.  The rest of the herd was hanging out in the pasture.

How come it is when I'm busy with something else I spot deer in the yard or the pasture, but when I'm ready to shoot then I don't spot anything?  Maybe I'm not looking in the right spots?  I did spot a couple little bitty bucks yesterday but I passed on them as there is still three weeks of deer season.
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Re: spotted fawns this late in the year
« Reply #11 on: November 10, 2009, 09:31:39 AM »
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Re: spotted fawns this late in the year
« Reply #12 on: November 10, 2009, 12:04:54 PM »
a fall fawn doen't have the body mass to survive a hard winter
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Re: spotted fawns this late in the year
« Reply #13 on: November 10, 2009, 12:44:57 PM »
Quote from: Harold Tuttle on November 10, 2009, 12:04:54 PM
a fall fawn doen't have the body mass to survive a hard winter

I've seen spots on fawns into the first season of December, I just think that some mature their coats a little more slowly. Rut is starting in Iowa and in 20 or so days another smaller rut will occur with the does that didn't get bred, so most fawns are born the around the same 30 days in the late spring.

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Re: spotted fawns this late in the year
« Reply #14 on: November 10, 2009, 06:02:16 PM »
Unless they were far north (Upper Michigan, Northern Wisconsin, Northern Minnesota, Maine, canada, North Dakota) their body mass isn't the mst important thing for survival as food can usually be found. In the aformentioned states, they often yard up in thick pines/spruce/tamaracks for the winter to avoid the 2'+ of snow which saps their energy travelling in, and have really nothing nutricious to eat for at least 2 months.
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