I had a few does on camera this year that had twins one must have lost one because for the last month that doe has only had one fawn the other doe has a notch cut out of her left ear and this doe in picture doesn't have the notch. I had 4 other pictures of these 4 deer and towards the end of the pictures she's butting all three of the littles ones away like she's wearing them off like a cow does
id be more willing to bet one of the fawns mommas got stuck a few weeks ago or shes right off camera deer dont always stay in side by side tight groups. and its hard to tell but that one on the right could be a small yearling.
Fawns will face their real mother and stand either parallel or away from other adults. All three are facing momma in the picture. Probably waiting to suckle.
Fawns will face their real mother and stand either parallel or away from other adults. All three are facing momma in the picture. Probably waiting to suckle.
Ive got pics of fawns facing, back turned to, standing beside, laying under,walking behind their mama as well as facing other deer and so on and so forth. That is just ridiculous.
About 15 years ago I had a doe that had a light colored patch on her hip. She had triplets 3 or 4 straight years, the last year she had 3 little bucks.
I will say the doe looks to healthy to have been sucked down by 3 mouths. Actually she looks pretty fat to have even been sucked on by twins. Maybe the answer to that lies within your handle "Deerfeeder".
I will say the doe looks to healthy to have been sucked down by 3 mouths. Actually she looks pretty fat to have even been sucked on by twins. Maybe the answer to that lies within your handle "Deerfeeder".
Triplets are not surprising to see around here and twins are even more frequent. The one thing I have noticed though is that it seems during drought and poor crop years they are less common and during the bountiful crop years they are more common.