wobblegobble
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They are just hitting the ground in our area and will continue to drop through September!
First Fawn on the ground
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Bell3wv
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Where are you? They were hatching during turkey season in NE Tenn.
Madbowh
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Yea rally where are you at, must be way down south for them to just drop. Definitely turkey season births here
tree_ghost
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Fawning seems to be slowing way down where I'm at in Mid Tn
wobblegobble
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We are in southern middle TN, people tell us every year we are crazy when we say our first rut is in mid to late December!
GreeneGriz
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I seen a fawn with a dried umbilical cord still on it and barely able to keep up with its mama this morning.
Last spring I watched a buck breed a yearling doe on March 18th after chasing her back and forth across a picked corn field.
our peak rut hits around mid December here.
Last spring I watched a buck breed a yearling doe on March 18th after chasing her back and forth across a picked corn field.
our peak rut hits around mid December here.
BSK
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Very possible that it is. Some areas along the AL border have peak breeding in January.
wobblegobble
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I just had my first few hit the ground
tree_ghost
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They start dropping middle of June here.
tree_ghost
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BSK
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Yup
tree_ghost
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Williamson Co.
I have fawns currently loosing spots and does still pregnant. Amazing!
BSK
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We have a VERY early rut on my place, yet every year I had a particular doe that would still be pregnant when I would start my photo census in early August. Individual deer are just that, individuals. Some does have a very late estrus built into their DNA.
tree_ghost
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They are everywhere in between also. It tells me that you've got a chance to kill a bucks chasing a doe anytime from early Oct till close of season!
BSK
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That is correct. The "peak" of breeding, in a well balanced deer herd, lasts about 5 weeks. That "peak" is defined by 95% of conceptions. But that still leaves 5%. That 5% could be at any time. In addition, you have does that are incapable of conceiving, and this may be as much as 5% of all adult females. These does will come back into estrus over and over, with bucks chasing them each time, right into spring.
