Seeing any fawns yet???

[Neighbor_guy]

Anyone seeing any fawns yet???

We should be close. It's always exciting to see them when they first start venturing out. Figured some would be showing up on trail camera before the rest see them in our yards. 

[smurfy]

nope......not yet. was thinking the same thing!

[O.T.C.]

Grandpa always said when I cut first crop hay there's fawns, sometimes in the mower unfortunately as tight as they hold and lay. What I have seen are some does that seem to be searching around for a quiet out of the way spot to have them. As early as a few farmers reported seeing breeding of does they could come a bit sooner then later. PS. Time is right now to kill every coyote you can.

[Sturg]

I got pictures of some newborns last year and it was the 17th of May.  Should be seeing some in the next week or so.

[ESSGuy]

My father in law saw his first fawn in Siren, Wi in early May. I did the 200 day gestation count back and the calculations said doe would have been bred on Oct 22nd. This would shoot holes in the early- mid November breeding theory. Was this just an isolated incident or are rut/ breeding times way off base?

[fr0sty]

 

[leech~~]

I've seen a few running with moms and two flat ones on the road!

[hockeybc69]

Not a single fawn on cam as of 2 weeks ago. 

Got a chocolate bear, a timberwolf(pic confirmed by the International wolf center in Ely) and coyotes. Lots of fawn eaters on the farm in OTC.

fawns that survive are lucky SOBs now days. Continued sad state of affairs with the deer in our area.

[certified jumbo]

Lots of fawns and deer in general for us.  Have some bears on camera.   No yotes or wolves yet.  I trapped a bunch of yotes last winter.  It appears as though that has helped. 

[MJ1657]

9 hours ago, certified jumbo said:

Lots of fawns and deer in general for us.  Have some bears on camera.   No yotes or wolves yet.  I trapped a bunch of yotes last winter.  It appears as though that has helped. 

You did something about your predator problem instead of just complaining about it???? What a concept!

[certified jumbo]

You can call in and shoot yotes in the summer too.  Set up on a newly cut hay field and give the critter call a rip.  You might be surprised how fast  a yote may appear.

[hockeybc69]

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You did something about your predator problem instead of just complaining about it???? What a concept!

I cant shoot a wolf. Cant shoot a bear out of season. Neighbor shot/trapped 15 coyotes this past winter. My apologies that I cant cant camp out on the hunting land and kill more coyotes. Come on down and shoot em. I have offered it up to many, but nobody seems to want to do it after the big talk comes out. Plenty of things in life that dont allow unlimited time to go take care of predators in my life when I live 125 miles away.

 

[certified jumbo]

[ESSGuy]

Since our legislators and elected officials won't or can't help us out, it's our job as sportsmen to help out the deer population and control the predator population. We all know the predation problems on the land, it's ok to do some maintenance to keep every thing in check. We will have zero deer if we leave it up to our Govt.

[roony]

Deer are thick as thieves around my place. There are two does with three fawns you can see in my backyard right in the middle of the day. Garden thieves I call them.