My nieghbor got a new critter!
My nieghbor has a small farm going on with goats, horses, chickens, ect.
Well the other day some friends of his found a young fawn ( about 1 week old) that was orphaned (found it near the dead doe) and brought it to him to see if he could save it.
It sure is a cute little boogger that is not affraid of people and may just grow up to be a nice looking buck!
I will try to get pictures latter today!
Well the other day some friends of his found a young fawn ( about 1 week old) that was orphaned (found it near the dead doe) and brought it to him to see if he could save it.
It sure is a cute little boogger that is not affraid of people and may just grow up to be a nice looking buck!
I will try to get pictures latter today!
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Thats cool[8D]
Most states I think it Illegal though.0 -
quote:Originally posted by MVP
Thats cool[8D]
Most states I think it Illegal though.
He has contacted the wildlife division on how to feed it and such. So they must know that he has it.0 -
A buddy of mine Jim found a orphand bambi on time. He would feed it goats milk. They are really cute. This one grew to be a nice little buck. Jim could stand out side his house and holler it's name and here he would come out of the timber and across the creek bottom to eat dog food with the dogs. You could pet him and all. Finally after a couple of year, Jim found him dead in a pond trying to heal a gun wound. Some one had shot him. 0 -
Mmmm....Venison 0 -
quote:Originally posted by cubslover
Mmmm....Venison
Thats what I said to him![:D]
He doubts he could eat it after raising it though.0 -
I'm the same way, I could never raise cattle.
The other day I told the wife, jokingly, that if the cat pissed one more time in the house, I was going to take her outside and break her neck.
Then I actually imagined trying to do it. I could never do such a thing. I've never understood how someone could be so cruel to animals. Especially pets, cattle and farm raised animals for food are different. Pets take a liking to you and show emotion.
I feel bad just talking about it.
There are a couple places I've seen around here that have a 2 bedroom mobile home on a 1/3 acre lot with a 30'diameter pen with 3-4 horses in them. It's all mud, no grass, no place to run. I'm suprised they can get away with it. I love horses, as does the wife. We'd love to raise horses, but don't have the space or money.0 -
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I raised this one on a bootle with powdered cow milk. This picture was taken when he was 7, last saw him when he was 9 and not as big.0 -
For many years most of the people injured in zoos were injured by hand raised antlered animals. Bambi is cute/beautifuly/stately and tame until his first rut, then he will take anything that enters his territory, including the family that raised him. After the rut he is his old self. Hormones.
Your friend should make sure he is legal to stay out of trouble, and talk to the Game and fish biologists about finding the deer a surrogate mother. If he gets imprinted on people he will be either a life long captive, or doomed.
Your friends heart is obviously in the right place, so he should keep going with it for the best interest of the deer. Making it a pet is not in anyones best interest in the long run.0 -
If goats milk etc. doesn't work-use pediocare. 0 -
couple here in my area found a fawn and raised it. Couple of years later and it routinely got out of the pen. Attacked an older couple, she lost her eye, he was in the hospital for about a week. Owners/finders were charged and the civil damages haven't finished up yet.
Turn it into a wildlife re-habilatator, saves a lot of problems.0 -
Back during the American Revolution there was a British Colonel who had a pet buck which he had raised from a fawn. The Indians were very impressed by this, and it helped him to gain Indian allies to attack American settlements.
The buck was several years old and had grown an 8 point rack. One day, out of nowhere, the buck rammed the Colonel in the butt. One tine went into his thigh, and punctured the femoral artery.
The Colonel sat down on the ground and watched himself bleed to death. Took about a minute.
I would be like your friend, gitrdone, and my heart would go out to a fawn. I would want to do anything I could to save the fawn. But, it just about has to have a tragic ending.
This deer was found next to the dead doe, so good to catch it up.
However, I have been told by Georgia DNR that people often catch fawns and pronounce them abandoned. In fact, most fawns have not been abandoned. The mother has the fawn sit tight in a spot in the woods, while the mother goes off to look for food. Ga. DNR tells people to just leave a fawn where you found it.0 -
Illegal in MD... Recent case where the DNR people took some pet deer away from a couple that raised them... and of course "put them to sleep"... for the greater good. [:(] 0 -
quote:Originally posted by allen griggs
Back during the American Revolution there was a British Colonel who had a pet buck which he had raised from a fawn. The Indians were very impressed by this, and it helped him to gain Indian allies to attack American settlements.
The buck was several years old and had grown an 8 point rack. One day, out of nowhere, the buck rammed the Colonel in the butt. One tine went into his thigh, and punctured the femoral artery.
The Colonel sat down on the ground and watched himself bleed to death. Took about a minute.
I would be like your friend, gitrdone, and my heart would go out to a fawn. I would want to do anything I could to save the fawn. But, it just about has to have a tragic ending.
This deer was found next to the dead doe, so good to catch it up.
However, I have been told by Georgia DNR that people often catch fawns and pronounce them abandoned. In fact, most fawns have not been abandoned. The mother has the fawn sit tight in a spot in the woods, while the mother goes off to look for food. Ga. DNR tells people to just leave a fawn where you found it.
Yea the doe had been hit is what I was told.
They have no plans really on a full time pet with it. Just to get it old enuff to servive on its own.
If he releases it behind his house and as long as it don't roam to awfully far (within about a 6 mile radius) it should be safe from hunters as this area is not hunted and there are other deer around.
I think it will turn out allright and a nice buck will get released to hopefully make more deer!0 -
Without a mother deer to show it how to be a deer, it will not have a snowballs chance. It really needs a surrogate mother. 0 -
I don't understand why people get so attached to animals. My dog is good and a buddy, but if she died she is a dog and don't tell me you thought they would live forever.
I can't stand people that are cruel to animals though.
Now a hoofed animal would have no chance around me once it got big enough to eat no matter if I raised it or not. It's food to me.
Tell your neighbor to raise it up until hunting season. Remeber younger animals always taste better and are more tender. [;)]0 -
"I don't understand why people get so attached to animals. My dog is good and a buddy, but if she died she is a dog and don't tell me you thought they would live forever."
I used to have your exact attitude. I killed many, many deer as a young man. If I killed 8 one year, I wanted to get 9 the next.
I don't know, now I am 56, and in the last ten years or so it has gotten hard for me to shoot a deer. I feel sorry for 'em.
When I was a hard core 25 year old deer hunter, I noticed that most of the deer hunters were young guys, I couldn't figure that out.0 -
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quote: I used to have your exact attitude. I killed many, many deer as a young man. If I killed 8 one year, I wanted to get 9 the next
I don't have the want to kill them. I have the want to eat them. Killing them is just a part of the process to get to eating them, and I don't enjoy killing them.0 -
"I don't have the want to kill them. I have the want to eat them. Killing them is just a part of the process to get to eating them, and I don't enjoy killing them."
Yeah, right, I have heard that one before.
If you didn't enjoy killing them, you would just buy a pork roast at the grocery store.0 -
In my local paper today. Just up the road a couple miles, some folks found one of these...
...under their car. In Virginia!!
link: http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2007/052007/05102007/2823790 -
What He Dog said.
Been there,done that.
Not a good idea.
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I bumped a small Deer once in my truck, broadside..hard. Knocked it
unconcious, so put it in te bed of the truck, under my rool-n-lock.
Took it to a buddy that raised Deer and Elk. It was fully concious
when I got there, but obviously messed up the indsides and only lived
a few months. Should've just brought him home and made stew.[;)]0 -
I have a good friend who's wife is a wildlife rehabilitator (I guess that is the word). She always has a couple fawns, a skunk or two, and usually a possum and coon running around. In KY, you have to have a license from the state to take the orphans in. When someone contacts the DNR about an orphaned animal, they will call her to come and get it. She has to release them once raised, and is subject to periodic inspection and what not. 0 -
quote: Yeah, right, I have heard that one before.
If you didn't enjoy killing them, you would just buy a pork roast at the grocery store.
Since when did pork or beef taste like venision? Thats right it doesn't , not to mention that venision is much better for you.0
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