Dropping fawns?

[The Back 40]

I had 2 doe bedded down in different locations this morning out in my field. They were popping their heads up every now and then. I thought they may have been placing their fawns out there or is it too early for that?

[mowin]

Just now, The Back 40 said:

I had 2 doe bedded down in different locations this morning out in my field. They were popping their heads up every now and then. I thought they may have been placing their fawns out there or is it too early for that?

I'm starting to see more does in fields during the day.  I haven't seen any fawns yet, but a good buddy of mine seen one yesterday. 

[dbHunterNY]

deer have a 208 day gestation, which would put the doe being bred at October 21st when i use a specific date calculator found with google. that's early but could still happen. some breeding started then but most seem to have happened around mid November last year like most years. 

[corydd7]

June 3rd last year. Was about five days old at this point. 

[E J]

My brother said he saw a fawn last week crossing the road. He's not a hunter so I questioned him a bit about it. He said it was the size of his 12 pound dog. 

[dbHunterNY]

our farm is mostly hay fields and has been for a long time. before we did any QDM stuff with wood lots we'd see a lot of newborn fawns in fields throughout June and into july while mowing. our deer herd is more what it's supposed to be for sex ratio and qty. add the forest habitat work to that and we see far less in the hay fields. any newer born fawns we stumble upon or see are typically within the first half of june.

[Robhuntandfish]

newborn on June 6 last year.   Usually that first week of June we start seeing them.   But have seen them much earlier and much later.  

[dbHunterNY]

I posted a video of a newly born fawn that didn't have its legs under it enough to run yet on our National Deer Association branch page. Google time stamp said I took the video on June 1st of 2022.

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/qsU8XTfvX4b2hM9R/?mibextid=oFDknk

[mowin]

This was June 2nd last year.  Ran across the road with ease, so had to be a few days to a week old.  That would put it's birthday well into the last week of May. 

[Robhuntandfish]

we will be mowing trails on Memorial weekend and def keep an eye out for newborns .....last year I mustve been close as I had a mom pop right out in the trail real close to me and stare me down

[dbHunterNY]

Won't let me share the email link list for NDA fawn related articles so anyone will have to Google search title of each..

I can otherwise forward the email with the links if you message me your email address.

 

[Moho81]

My friend thinks he saw one while scouting for turkeys then on a different day when we where turkey hunting I saw a print in the mud that was so small it had to have come from a fawn. 

[JJJWNY]

We had a doe with 2 little ones go across the back yard last Sunday.

[NYRuthunter]

Had a fawn leg bone In the yard about 2-3 weeks ago ,I’ll take a pic tomorrow if it’s still there .

[Jeremy K]

We saw a fawn big enough to run away from us during turkey season a couple years ago. Things happen