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I was in the shop Tuesday, and luckily looked down and saw a brand new fawn. We had seen a doe roaming around for a couple of days, and we were pretty sure she was looking for her fawn. We waited until sundown, and then took her to a gully next to our house. All the deer go through it to get to the feeder, so we thought that was the best place to put her. The fawn had tiny bumps on his head, so we assumed the fawn was a male. Since he was beside the saw, I named him Diablo. We haven't seen him until this morning when he was tailing his momma doe. That's number 4 fawn who ranges on our property. 2 singles, and a pair. Unfortunately we lost one fawn to our hay cutter last month.

Every year, we have a doe try to raise two fawns in the hay field between our house and the busy state route we live on. The success (survival) rate is about 25% for the fawns and about 75% for the does. I occasionally get one with the haybine, but usually it's just traffic.

Nature is harsh, highways are more harsh. The highway we love on kills a ton of deer.
Here the twins that momma mostly raises in our yard.

I was putting out pond fertilizer yesterday and had a fawn spot me and decide I was momma, I thought he was about to swim to the boat. He kept following me around the pond the whole time.

This year I counted 9 fawns at the feeder at the house. We have 5 other feeders on our 85 acres and see different fawns at them also…… big crop of em this year….. yotes haven’t taken a major toll yet.. think yotes are eating piglets