Re: Hit a baby deer mowing hay today

Posted by Billy NY on June 07, 2019 at 03:58:07 from (74.70.87.149):

In Reply to: Hit a baby deer mowing hay today posted by Rick n ohio on June 06, 2019 at 17:38:25:

I'm sorry to hear that, I know the awful feeling as well, hit one with a rotary cutter, while the doe and the twin to the fawn were in view. It truly is one of the worst feelings, they are pure innocence. I raised one, was quite an experience.
I saw the grass moving ahead, thought it was a rabbit and looked like it was clear ahead. I should have stopped the tractor and walked it, I knew something was ahead, saw the grass move. A terrible mistake on my part, hearing that thing go through the mower was enough to put me over. I just stopped the tractor, left it where it was and carried the remains away from the doe and twin who watched me the entire time.
Work has kept me busy and later today, I'll finally get to mowing, last year I had cut weeks ahead of this year already, I will be standing up on the first round, going very slow, this is when they drop the fawns and they love the tall hay grasses like this field is. Walking it would be fine, just that the ticks are so thick, I cannot walk to my burn barrel and not get 2 on me, that happened last night.
The one I raised, the doe literally brought this fawn out into the field I was cutting, say about 6 passes in. I see this doe and am scratching my head, is their a fawn milking underneath, sure was. Doe then sort of walked off, so I approached where they were and sure enough this fawn crouched down like they do for weeks before they start to tag along. The doe was trying to shake off a coyote and protect the fawn by creating a diversion. She likely had a twin and this guy was a runt. Cold and rain was going to move in that night. I stood there thinking what am I going to do, I can't leave this little guy knowing what will happen, and I hate coyotes with a passion. This doe saw me the whole time and literally brought this fawn out into the cut as if to make a point, they just don't do things like this, they always hide, fawn lays still. While I was tormenting over what to do and I have video of this, the fawn gets up and comes over to me as if to say, help me out would ya? I thought some more and said the heck with it, he followed me all the way to the house, I had to go back later to get the tractor. I went and got some milk replacer from TSC across the road and the rest was history. It was a responsibility, I would feed early in the morning, come home for lunch and then later after work. Once he was weaned, I just let him out in the morning and he would find me sometimes at lunch but definitely at the end of the day. He'd come in at night, mill around a bit, then walk off on his own to one of the 2 beds he had. It was quite the experience and I did it because I felt it was the right thing to do knowing he was toast as soon as I left. I found the remains of another that was dropped near my house, those coyotes get a fair amount of them, and usually when they first start following the doe, they don't have much of a scent, so they are hard to find until they start to move around.
He literally had the run of this place and soon enough was fast enough to outrun a predator, I figured if anyone caught on, I could play dumb once he was good outside, he roamed free and I've never seen an animal so grateful and or just downright so pleasant to be around as a whitetail deer fawn. I learned an awful lot from the experience.

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