Had an interesting scenario during youth season. My son tagged his first doe ever and while gutting it I noticed its uterus seemed a bit large and hard. I cut it open and to my surprise a fawn was in there. Pretty developed too but not quite full fawn size IMO. Brown fur with white spots, but the hooves and nose seemed to peel away pretty easily. You guys ever seen anything like that or a likely explanation? I called and left a message for the biologist but got no response.
It was probably just a late fawn. I have pictures of one in spots and nursing in December. Not common but it does happen.
That deer would have been bred sometime in mid July to have a fawn developed to that stage in October. Bout 3 months of growth. I killed one several years ago on January 12th that had 3 little ones developed to that stage and biologist told me that she was most likely bred the first week of October.
What’s even freakier about this thread is that my dad says he saw two fawns this morning, didn’t notice any spots, but swore they were the smallest he’s ever seen for this time of year. Said they could barely see over the foliage.
It happens I guess. I had a video once from game cam. On Jan 1st a buck chasing a doe and he had dropped both antlers.
Weird for sure. It’s that GMO corn jk Hunted with my daughter last week. We had two does each had twin fawns. One of the does pair of fawns was nursing and looked to about 15 lbs. tough one because I was thinking about us shooting her. but no way would I want two little fawns standing near us as I gut there mother.
Well I’ve said I hunt a weird place. October used to seem hotter than November with chasing, etc...but the last 3 years (and looking like this year could be year 4) the activity has been hotter late year. I’d say most of the rubs and scrapes made were late December and January.