late fawning dates

[AlabamaSwamper]

I just had a doe and fawn walk by me and the fawn still had a red coat, full of spots and couldn't of weighed over 25-30lbs live.

Odd?

 

[megalomaniac]

How big was the momma?

If she was a 1.5 y/o doe, it wouldn't be unusual for her to have been bred this past Feb as a fawn.

I'm sure I'll see several doe fawns come into heat late in the season this year. I've got some HUGE fawns this year!

Most biologists will quote a 20% lactation rate on 1.5 y/o's does, but normally, we don't have any wet 1.5 y/o's, despite our herd being extremely healthy. I bet that changes next year, but can't figure out exactly what the change is (I suspect must be the very wet summer we had)

 

[AlabamaSwamper]

Once she stood next to a 1.5 4pt, I believed thhe same thing. Momma probably didn't weight 70lb live

 

[Football Hunter]

I just had a doe and fawn walk by me and the fawn still had a red coat, full of spots and couldn't of weighed over 25-30lbs live.

Odd?

seems odd to me

 

[BSK]

Female fawns that reach a body size large enough to reach sexual maturity and enter estrus as a fawn often do so very late, as in January. In a very healthy TN deer herd, as many as 25% of female fawns reach sexual maturity and successfully reproduce as a fawn.

 

[AlabamaSwamper]

I agree BSK and I'm sure the momma was a yearling. She was however bred in March I believe, going by the size of the fawn. Looked like a n August fawn looks around here.

 

[BigAl]

I had one in the back yard last week about the same size. I was somewhat shocked, but I guess it happens.

 

[Biggun4214]

I have had reports of pregnant does in Oct. I confiscated a fawn that was spot-lighted in mid Nov that probably weighted 12-15 lbs whole. I also picked up a road killed spotted fawn in late Dec, might have weighed 20 lbs.