Weaning our fawn

beanobasenji · Sep 18, 2014

Hello to all,

We got our fawn on June 11th of this year.

My question is, when do I wean her from the bottle.

Any help will be greatly appreciated

Sharon

Antlershed · Sep 18, 2014

You can start to wean now. I had one born July 12 and I am weaning him this weekend. He's been at once a day all week. This late in the year, he's better off getting grain than milk, whitetails go through some serious changes as the daylight dwindles and this time of the year they will be pounding the food sources to gain their winter weight.

beanobasenji · Sep 18, 2014

Thank you for the information

5RC · Tuesday at 5:51 PM

Will a fawn wean itself from kid milk

Josephhamm05 · 2025-01-08T12:49:27-0800

5RC said:
Will a fawn wean itself from kid milk

Yes they can, they can also wean themselves early and want fresh grass and other foods

5RC · 2025-01-08T15:06:50-0800

Thank you! I was a little concerned...she never sucked a bottle, but she would slurp and suck out of a bucket. She would get so excited, she would paw, nudge with her nose like a calf, grunt. If she had a snorkel she would swim in it! The next day she quit! We got Millie the first of Sept. as a seed combine swiped her leg. She seem to be doing good until this. I appreciate the information.

Josephhamm05 · 2025-01-09T08:30:10-0800

5RC said:
Thank you! I was a little concerned...she never sucked a bottle, but she would slurp and suck out of a bucket. She would get so excited, she would paw, nudge with her nose like a calf, grunt. If she had a snorkel she would swim in it! The next day she quit! We got Millie the first of Sept. as a seed combine swiped her leg. She seem to be doing good until this. I appreciate the information.

What type of bottle have you tried using and we tend to use a goat nipple bottle and or even a kitten bottle nipple if they are still trying to suck and what the bottle

Weaning our fawn

Help Support Deer Farmer Forum:

beanobasenji

Antlershed

beanobasenji

5RC

Josephhamm05

5RC

Josephhamm05

Similar threads

Recent Discussions