Baby Deer

[QRTRHRS]

I spotted this very young deer in the grass while walking my dog around the outside of my fenced pasture today. It was curled up barely a foot off of where I had mowed a couple of days ago. My leashed dog never noticed it and I kept moving. Three hours later I was curious so I walked out to the area and it was still there. It's curled up in a ball about a foot in diameter. I'll check on it again in the morning.

At least this one was outside of my electric fence. A year or so ago, I found one inside of the fence. Not sure if momma' dropped that one in the pasture or what? It was not far from where I have a break in the fence that I open while mowing so I opened it and the next day the youngster was gone.

 

[ponytug]

Pretty!

We have newborn calves walk through barbed and electric fences with no deterrent. I think it takes a while before all systems are functional.

All the best,

Peter

 

[dodge man]

They are pretty vulnerable when that little.

 

[BackRoad]

Have read that fawns have only a very faint scent initially after being birthed. Might be why your dog didn't pick up on the deer being so close.

 

[Hay Dude]

Has 2 close calls with fawns on Saturday mowing hay.

 

[masseyrider]

Calf is veal.
What is a baby dear other than tender?

 

[Rockbadchild]

Was the doe in sight? that's very cool

 

[Rockbadchild]

Have read that fawns have only a very faint scent initially after being birthed. Might be why your dog didn't pick up on the deer being so close.

yes that's right, the predators will smell the placenta that's how they find the calf so the mother will hurry up and eat it and wash her calf to remove as much as the sent as possible.

 

[dodge man]

The mothers usually hook back up with the fawn.

 

[QRTRHRS]

The mothers usually hook back up with the fawn.

She did. I walked out to where I had seen the fawn and it was gone. Amazing how long the mothers will leave them and how long the fawns will lay still.

 

[bigtiller]

We had one like that once, napping about 20 feet from the patio deck. Mom would drop the baby off on her way to breakfast and pick it up after supper. And would do it all over the next day.

It lasted for about a week.

 

[Torvy]

My neophyte neighbor handled a fawn he found on a walk on his property.

 

[caver]

See if you can spot Bambi. I had brushhogged around it and it never moved. It was there hours later after.

 

[NorTracNY]

I had the same. I was in our pasture with my 3 dogs looking for a shoe. The dogs never saw the deer. I never would have if I wasn't actively looking for a horse shoe.

 

[IXLR8]

The misses went out to work about 2 weeks ago and found a fawn sleeping on our front porch. When she opened the door, it looked up at her with a look that said, why are you disturbing me. It then got up slowly, walked down the steps and slowly wandered away. Liz was too startled, and dealing with our dogs, to get a picture, unfortunately.

 

[Jstpssng]

Liz was too startled, and dealing with our dogs, to get a picture, unfortunately

I think that sometimes we spend time trying to get a picture when we should be just enjoying the moment.

Or in her case, dealing with the dogs.

 

[caver]

I think that sometimes we spend time trying to get a picture when we should be just enjoying the moment.

I used to play around with landscape photography while traveling out west. It started from my early caving days and doing cave photography with a caver friend. First print then slide film. It got a point where I thought the very same thing. Just enjoy the moment.

Digital photography took some of the skill out of it.

The last total eclipse had too many people trying to capture a rare occasion. I set up a time lapse showing the ground but just enjoyed the event with friends.

 

[5030]

Like Hay Dude, every year I come upon at least one fawn in the hay while mowing and it's a treat to get stopped in time not to take them through them the crimp rolls. I've crimped a few in the past, so far not this year however. Interestingly, the crimped ones are never there when I rake. Yotes must get them. I prefer them full grown to eat myself.

 

[MoArk Willy]

Amazing how long the mothers will leave them and how long the fawns will lay still.

Mom went out with the other girls for lunch.
I was tearing down part of a barn last week and in one part of the barn they have 3 goats and 3 baby goats.
I had my drill batteries in the section the goats are sheltered. The adult goats had went to graze but I didn't see the baby goats.
I went to change batteries and the three babies were just crunched into a corner stacked on top of each other.
Just three heads and a pile of hair.

 

[BackRoad]

Spotted while mowing one of my fields. Note the size of the dandelion bloom...