Hello!
Lately I’ve been visiting a little public nature reserve near my house, and today I saw a family of deer who were all looking very malnourished. There were two does, two fawns and I also saw a stag. The does were looking okay, but the fawns were looking somewhat skinny (one more so than the other). The stag was the worst of all, he was so skinny I could see his bones, and he had hairless patches all over his body. I’m not sure if this is due to malnourishment during winter time, or due to some other condition (keep in mind I live in Florida so winters aren’t extremely harsh here). What I was wondering was whether I could get some feed and spread it through the area, so that maybe that’ll help them bulk up. It makes me really sad to see them like this and I wanted to know if I could do something to help.
Lately I’ve been visiting a little public nature reserve near my house, and today I saw a family of deer who were all looking very malnourished. There were two does, two fawns and I also saw a stag. The does were looking okay, but the fawns were looking somewhat skinny (one more so than the other). The stag was the worst of all, he was so skinny I could see his bones, and he had hairless patches all over his body. I’m not sure if this is due to malnourishment during winter time, or due to some other condition (keep in mind I live in Florida so winters aren’t extremely harsh here). What I was wondering was whether I could get some feed and spread it through the area, so that maybe that’ll help them bulk up. It makes me really sad to see them like this and I wanted to know if I could do something to help.