JewelFreak
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Loved Lynnie's thread on her baby bunnies. Rather than threadjack it, here's a new one with our little "grandchildren." This is the 3rd year in a row we've had fawns born in our backyard. Love watching them run & buck & play. This year it was twins -- discovered when a tree guy was showing us one that needed to come down & tripped over what he thought was a stump. It turned out to be the tiny twins, not more than an hour old (I'm an expert on fawns nowadays)! Luckily they weren't hurt when he stepped on them.
Last year our maternity ward had 2 fawns born to different mothers, one 4 days after the other. So fascinating to watch -- the mothers shared nursing & mommy-ing duties.
Our yard is fenced & has woods at the back & side, great place to leave new babies -- predators can't get in (well, see below); they can't get out & lost. The moms come to nurse them, then when weaned they eat leaves & grass till they're big enough to jump the fence & trot off with the herd (at about 3 months).
This year we let them go early -- unbelievable! About 5 a.m. I glanced out the kitchen window while getting coffee -- and saw a RED FOX just flying across the yard at the fawns. (He was gorgeous too!) He cornered one in back, it baaa-ed in terror, but thank heaven I scared the fox off before he could make breakfast of it. They were 8 wks old then, not quite knee high. Since they weren't safe here anymore, we opened the gates & mama took them away with her. We had empty-nest syndrome for a week, missed our little pals, as we do every year.
These photos were taken w/a telescope lens -- they would never let us get this close!
--- Laurie



Last year our maternity ward had 2 fawns born to different mothers, one 4 days after the other. So fascinating to watch -- the mothers shared nursing & mommy-ing duties.
Our yard is fenced & has woods at the back & side, great place to leave new babies -- predators can't get in (well, see below); they can't get out & lost. The moms come to nurse them, then when weaned they eat leaves & grass till they're big enough to jump the fence & trot off with the herd (at about 3 months).
This year we let them go early -- unbelievable! About 5 a.m. I glanced out the kitchen window while getting coffee -- and saw a RED FOX just flying across the yard at the fawns. (He was gorgeous too!) He cornered one in back, it baaa-ed in terror, but thank heaven I scared the fox off before he could make breakfast of it. They were 8 wks old then, not quite knee high. Since they weren't safe here anymore, we opened the gates & mama took them away with her. We had empty-nest syndrome for a week, missed our little pals, as we do every year.
These photos were taken w/a telescope lens -- they would never let us get this close!
--- Laurie


