Small fawn crop

[rdstrong3]

Has anybody else noticed a shortage of fawns this year? I hunt Stephens Cty and we are noticing alot fewer off spring this year.on our lease. We talked to the land owner who said it was the result of the on going drought. He talked to a wildlife specialist who confirmed a small crop of offspring due to drought conditions. With the number of does we have we can rebound. But hopefully this years breeding will be more successful than last year. The coyote population seems to be increasing which has its own ill effects. Been following the green screen and haven't seen it mentioned and wanted to throw that out there to get others opinions. What will the effects be down the road and what steps do you suggest to minimize it?

[Old Bald Guy]

We had a lot of pregnant does earlier but haven't been seeing hardly any fawns. It might be because of coyotes or a lion.

[pigstika1978]

Coyotes have been real bad the last couple of years at my lease in Bastrop co only seen one doe with a fawn this year in desperate need of some help with predator control

[Mexico]

We've got the most since 3 year's ago. Nice seeing tons of them!

[jason86]

Saw 6 nubbins on our place 2020 will be a good year hopefully

[deer farmer]

last June I was disappointed in the fawn crop. But by July 1st I started seeing fawns out and around. Since I feed yr round with food plots, I expected a better fawn crop but looked like around 50 % had fawns in July. I even saw a really young fawn in Oct. I sure it was just a couple months old at the most. We have yr round water but water supply really got low. And we have yotes in the area, sometimes sounds like two pac's, and I have seen cougar tracks and neighbor has seen one twice, along with some Bobcats too.

[DUKFVR]

Same on our place in SE Coleman county. Very few fawns. Don't know if yotes or hogs got them or if the does aborted. We had what I thought were good conditions. Hopefully next season we see more. Giving the does a pass this season hoping to get our numbers up.

[Shane]

We're seeing a big group of does on the place we hunt in Callahan County, and none of them have fawns. I've seen one doe on camera that has twins, and the rest don't have any fawns. We had good rains in the spring. I think it's coyotes.

[FJTMEGA]

We hunt in coleman county and we have had the biggest fawn crop that i've seen in 13 yrs, we have 2 does that have thrown tripplets both this year and all 6 fawns are nubbins, needless to say both these doe wont get messed with and might even recieve a christmas bonus of vanilla corn!

[millman]

Looks like we have a good crop but I have noticed we have a growing predator problem also. Come late January we will be sleeping in the day and working the calls at night for sure.

[jkelbe]

I noticed a low crop in Anderson County, I think it's due to the coyotes, not the drought.

[Corey93]

Hunted in Throckmorton the past 3 years and seen maybe 6-7 fawns the entire time. Many Coyotes around there as I figured that was the issue!

[mills650]

Lots in Mills cnty. Most does I'm seeing still have a fawn with them.

[Tuffbroadhead]

Low fawn recruitment can be tied to many things , but the leading cause is a high predator population, more and more ranches that are practicing deer herd management are integrating predator trapping into the fold. Most think is sounds costly when we quote prices on trapping but in the long run the cost is simple in terms of what is gained in short term numbers that will be seen with the next years fawn recruitment numbers as well as numbers gained in quail and turkey survival.