crazy looking deer fawn

Deer Farmer Forum

Help Support Deer Farmer Forum:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
Wow that fawn has some short legs! I have never seen a fawn with legs that short and that big a torso. The shape of its head is also odd looking along with its stride when it shuffles around. Maybe it is the camera angle that is fooling me. Several deer farms up north raise white and piebald genetics. I have seen quite a few of them on farms but only a few ever in the wild. That fawn just doesn't seem like it is a whitetail when I watch the video clip on my little fancy phone screen. It is very cute! Thanks for posting it!
 
Doesn't seem like a whitetail to me either. Very cool none the less.
 
Would be interested to know about the parents. We have pieds but always breed them to brown deer, never pied to pied because there can be physiologic issues.
 
I didn't realize piebald fawns were so commonly deformed. I now guess yours probably is a whitetail fawn. I watched the first QDMA video clip posted with the guy holding the pied and the gal holding the normal colored fawn. This pied also appears to have much shorter legs and parrot jaw.

There is something about this video clip that has ticked me off as I have thought about it today. It was very cruel to have left that pied fawns ankles like that. Surgery and cast should have been put on it at birth. I had a friend in Alabama who had a piebald fawn born with its ankles bent just like this. He responsibly had his DVM do surgery immediately and cast them so the little guy could live a normal life. What are these chuckleheads doing? This fawn is going to have sores and likely get infections his whole life walking on his ankles. Leaving the fawn that way would be stupid and unnecessarily cruel. Furthermore what is the point in having two breeder bucks in the enclosure. I don't see what meaningful data could be gathered breeding with such vague parameters. This looks like more of QDMA's stupidity!!!
 
The fawn should have been put to sleep instead of videoing a freak show for all to see and make the deer farmer look bad because it was raised in an enclosure!!!!!!
 
Apparently it wandered up and they took it back in the woods shortly after and the mother came out when it heard it. :)
 
haha I was talking about the one that the qdma had a clip of, not the one you posted hunter. 


they remind me of a muntjac deer
 
I hope they fixed the fawns legs in the Georgia research center video. I would have liked to have heard the coordinator say they planned on doing surgery.

Hunter1764

If your state would have allowed I would have kept that fawn. I don't think its legs were long enough to evade predators although it wasn't as bad off as the one at the research center. It would have made a cool pet if it was a doe.
 
The Dr. John R Fischer that heads up the research center in that QDMA video clip is a socialistic equalitarian idiot. He was on the panel that decided our new CWD standards. He is definitely not for deer farming. This research facility would never use DNA Solutions to find out if the two fawns born from the same doe had different sires. They would rather not find out than use one of our industry resources. Knowing the misleading propaganda of John Fischer' and the QDMA about our industry really got my blood boiling after seeing this clip.
 
now come on guys I agree its strange but not everything comes out perfect give them a break I would let it grow see what nature does and go from there you can not control everything T&S
 
Bucky blue,

If you watch the qdma clip you will see what we mean. I don't give anyone a break that is tying to put me out of business!
 
If you were to familiarize yourself with John Fischer's writings and the QDMA's ideology you would know they will likely leave this crippled fawn alone and let nature run it's course. This is part of what angers me. I believe it is cruel and believe intervention is the ethical thing to do here. I once saw a video clip of a buck hit on the shoulder of the highway. He was paralyzed in his hind quarters. A bear came out of the woods and tore his stomach open and began to eat his intestines out while he was still a live with his head up. Some chucklehead taped video of it. I am a person who would have got in my car and ran the deer over, killed it and then welcomed the bear to have lunch. These people who I detest would say let it be its part of nature and these are the people holding the cripple fawn at the Georgia university research facility.
 
Sadly I found out that part of the piebald was found and had been eaten by something, wish they would have been allowed to keep it. But it is nature.
 
Makes me sick that the authorities over the wildlife in our states treat the precious resource we have in our whitetails so poorly. They act like our deer our so disposable, when in fact each life should be considered a very valuable resource. I understand they can't just allow everyone to bottlefeed every fawn they find, but I do think they need to step in and evaluate situations instead of condemning all the little fawns to death. They should allow some to be cared for by good people, and rehabbers. But that would make them get out their office chairs to go check the situation, and they wouldn't want to do that. It's much easier to just say, "let nature take it's course" over the phone while they sit around during their shift. I get so angry when I never see our pa game commission out doing anything. Most the vehicles stay parked at the offices.
 

Similar threads

S
Would like to reintroduce deer fawn into deer pen
Replies
0
Views
144
Spider2946
S
N
Want To Buy Looking for Axis and Fallow Deer
Replies
0
Views
126
Nimrod
N
W
Help!! Im new at all this. Have a fawn with possible dehydration and/or bloat!!!
Replies
0
Views
341
WVA.Whitetail-Momma
W
M
Help Needed with Hair Loss in an Abandoned Fawn
Replies
0
Views
215
Mcbree
M
N
Want To Buy Wanted Deer Handling Chute
Replies
6
Views
516
dallasny
D

Recent Discussions

Back
Top