Sunday, May 30, 2010

Fawn

I knew what Wolf was up to when I went out yesterday. He wasn't with his herd of goats. Alex was off for the weekend and feeding went pretty quick. Was on my way to the mailbox when I noticed the goats acting funny. There was a fawn at the gate getting butted around by the does. I yelled at the dogs and went in, the fawn let me catch him, he was crying and looking for milk. I thought he was hurt but only had cuts on his legs. His heart was racing. I put him in a box of towels in the garage, he rested a bit. I saw Wolf was covered in blood. I have way too many deer here and the dogs sometimes catch a fawn and kill it, I can't do anything about it but yell at them. And I will kill deer during hunting season, but not a fawn. I called the DNR and explained what had happened and asked what I should do . She said to let it go, they have no place to release the fawn after he is old enough to be turned out. Just too many deer. So I moved Wolf and his herd to the front and moved the sheep to the back pasture. Then took the tiny fawn to the woods where I saw his mother and released him. He crawled under this brush pile. Took this picture before I left.

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