Bad year for fawn survival?

[Big pig]

I thought about floodwaters and fawns last few weeks. Our creek has been out of its banks multiple times
But the abundant cover should be a positive overall.

FWIW a bobcat was stalking a fawn in our cabin yard last week.
He ran out of lives.
Last year, another cat chased a large fawn into the yard. Cat ended up DRT.
I think my hog proof plot provides perfect fawning ground and it has attracted the cats.

BP

[S-3 Ranch]

All our springs are flowing and the small creeks running, great forage here in the hill country

[Thumper]

I've seen only one fawn and it was late April. Sense then I'm only seeing does hanging around where they've got a fawn stashed. Grass is really tall this year.

[lmartin5]

Should be great in West Texas.

[HoustonHunter94]

Saw my first one this morning. It was probably less than 24hr old. I’m in a neighborhood in north central SA. Usually see them everywhere. Maybe just a little late this year.




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[KactusKiller]

With a lot of the areas deer live flooded and does dropping fawns right now will this be a poor year for fawn recruitment?

Man I don’t think so in our area of Navarro, hope not anyway. We need all the fawns we can get. In my area of Navarro we don’t have much of a flooding issue. Lots of waste high grass tho. Hoping to see some start to drop soon. Most of my fawns last yr were bucks, I think they all survived, hoping for a high doe production this yr to help build the herd.

[glen]

I’ve got 2 sets of twins in the yard now. First two to drop and both carrying twins. Grass is y’all and green so figure their chances are better than most years.

[DRSHUNTER]

I had a new one nursing and doing well today near our front gate.


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[bossbowman]

Man I don’t think so in our area of Navarro, hope not anyway. We need all the fawns we can get. In my area of Navarro we don’t have much of a flooding issue. Lots of waste high grass tho. Hoping to see some start to drop soon. Most of my fawns last yr were bucks, I think they all survived, hoping for a high doe production this yr to help build the herd.

I think it will definitely affect the navarro mills area, all that lake flooded and lots of coyotes/bobcats.

[tdwinklr]

Lots of high grass in fields AND in woods, at least on my place.
Just don't mow it before July or there's high risk of running over hiding fawns.

[BTLowry]

I have seen 2 dead on the road in the past week.

One this morning near the house.

Don't think I have ever seen a roadkill fawn before, at least that I remember

These are tiny too, probably the size of my JRT