Has anyone had a doe that did not have any milk ? i have a doe that i was watching , waiting for here to fawn i could never see her drop a bag . she never really looked like she was even bread , but she dropped a large buck fawn , and a very tinny doe fawn . still no milk bag that i could see. i tagged the fawns gave them fawn paste , 2 1/2 days later both fawns died. guess i should pulled them , but i was not 100 percent sure . so any way if she had no milk is that something i need to worry about the next fawning season? thanks for any help.
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I had a 1 1/2 year old doe have a single buck fawn last year, the fawn was quite early and real small. As far as I could tell the doe had no milk and had no idea what the fawn was. I pulled it at 8 hour's old. This year the doe had twin buck fawn's and has a good milk bag,they are 3 week's old she has took good care of them.
Sometimes women have this problem. I think hormone shots are prescribed... Don't know how one would treat a deer, but I think that the milk comes in usually with stimulation of the mammary glands. I'm sad to read that you didn't monitor those fawns better Jamie.
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Is this the first time this doe fawned?
