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I am really sorry to leave you guys hangin' on this...downloading images now and have to leave for a bit. Hit the woods today, another copperhead, yadayada...heading back through the swampy area and into a pine forest...

I literally almost stepped on a fawn. Scared the crud out of me...well it really didnt scare me, nothing does.:faint: A few feet away...another.

I backed off quietly about 50 yards then I called my biologist friend and she said they'll be left all day until dusk. TWINS! Born last night, they could barely walk yet, very clumsy. One would try and stumble then come back. I was worried about imprinting, etc...She wanted me to check them for fire ants as they often get into the fawns noses and they will not move, just get mauled and often killed. She assured me it was alright to touch them.
So I propped myself against a log and put them on my lap and sure enough...fire ants, removed ants and fleas and some bugs. I stayed there for what seemed like forever. Then I tucked them in some downed trees about 10 feet from where I first saw them, making sure they had a few ways out of there if need be...

They were so small they could fit in a shoe box. What a blessing...I will never ever beat that experience...ever, ever, ever, ever!!!! She wants me to return at dusk to be sure mom came and got them...the good thing is she'll leave prints as the ground into there is soft. How flippin cool is that? huh? I ask you?

Images a bit latah! (sorry, just had to share):diva::starcat:
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Dye Tied said:
You've had a good day. What a neat story to be able to tell :huggy:
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Thanks...it's pure amazing to me in every way!
I had to throw the copper in my side pack...Emilee was upset I didn't bring one home...ugh!

Wait to see the images...manoman...I hope they come out...I was SHAKING the whole time...thinking I wished someone else could experience this.
 
Dye Tied

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TwilightImaging said:
Thanks...it's pure amazing to me in every way!
I had to throw the copper in my side pack...Emilee was upset I didn't bring one home...ugh!

Wait to see the images...manoman...I hope they come out...I was SHAKING the whole time...thinking I wished someone else could experience this.
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I can't wait to see the pictures. You must walk softly and carry a big camera :lol:
 
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that is awesome. i used to cut grass for pepco under the hi-tensions lines in montgomery...there was a lot of thick bush almost 4 feet tall and one time the batwing made this horrible grinding/chomping sound....i just knew something horrible had happened... i turned off the PTO and tractor, hopped down and omg...a chopped up baby deer. over the next few weeks this happened at least ten more times. everytime i nearly got sick.

finally the pepco field guys came out to check my acreage and it just happened to be I had taken out 2 (twins i assumed) about 40 minutes ago, which was only a 20 foot walk across two swathes... so i walked them over and showed them. You know their response? "oh, yea, it happens all the time...they dont move when any threats coming" so being a young woman I asked...is there any way to stop it from happening, ive killed nearly 15 baby deer in the past couple of weeks. they joked about putting deer whistles on the tractor...just made me sick and feel stupid

so the halfway short of it was...one warm morning i was cutting in the rain (boss was a slavedriver), well trying to cut...it was damp enough that the grass matted down a bit. WAIT! what was that...a baby ahead of me...i could just make out the tan and spots. i shut down, hopped down and went to move the little guy (grandpop also said i could move him and it would be ok)....
let me tell you... blah blah happened, cautisiously approached him... sitting there holding that fawn in my lap, feeling it just shiver and try its hardest to stay stone still....feeling the wet wirey hairs and smelling damp animal.... thats an experience as well....

I quit then and there. yes, i understand that there are still probbaly hundreds of fawns that get chopped up every year along those lines....but - my soul was cleaned a bit by that experience and i could sleep without envisioning the little bloody chunks..or hearing that meat into a wood chipper sound....i wasnt going back.
 
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smithchick231 said:
a chopped up baby deer. over the next few weeks this happened at least ten more times. everytime i nearly got sick.

- without envisioning the little bloody chunks..or hearing that meat into a wood chipper sound....i wasnt going back.
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:shocked::barf:

I needed a Kleenex after that one...I'm sure it happens very often. Holding those thangs in the wild will definately imprint on your soul. Right up there with the bald eagle and baby Caribou stories in Alaska a few years back. Hits your soul...and I used to bow hunt every year...until I grabbed a camera.:yay:
 
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smithchick231 said:
that is awesome. i used to cut grass for pepco under the hi-tensions lines in montgomery...there was a lot of thick bush almost 4 feet tall and one time the batwing made this horrible grinding/chomping sound....i just knew something horrible had happened... i turned off the PTO and tractor, hopped down and omg...a chopped up baby deer. over the next few weeks this happened at least ten more times. everytime i nearly got sick.

finally the pepco field guys came out to check my acreage and it just happened to be I had taken out 2 (twins i assumed) about 40 minutes ago, which was only a 20 foot walk across two swathes... so i walked them over and showed them. You know their response? "oh, yea, it happens all the time...they dont move when any threats coming" so being a young woman I asked...is there any way to stop it from happening, ive killed nearly 15 baby deer in the past couple of weeks. they joked about putting deer whistles on the tractor...just made me sick and feel stupid

so the halfway short of it was...one warm morning i was cutting in the rain (boss was a slavedriver), well trying to cut...it was damp enough that the grass matted down a bit. WAIT! what was that...a baby ahead of me...i could just make out the tan and spots. i shut down, hopped down and went to move the little guy (grandpop also said i could move him and it would be ok)....
let me tell you... blah blah happened, cautisiously approached him... sitting there holding that fawn in my lap, feeling it just shiver and try its hardest to stay stone still....feeling the wet wirey hairs and smelling damp animal.... thats an experience as well....

I quit then and there. yes, i understand that there are still probbaly hundreds of fawns that get chopped up every year along those lines....but - my soul was cleaned a bit by that experience and i could sleep without envisioning the little bloody chunks..or hearing that meat into a wood chipper sound....i wasnt going back.
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:frown: how awful...I never thought of that...
 
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smithchick231 said:
that is awesome. i used to cut grass for pepco under the hi-tensions lines in montgomery...there was a lot of thick bush almost 4 feet tall and one time the batwing made this horrible grinding/chomping sound....i just knew something horrible had happened... i turned off the PTO and tractor, hopped down and omg...a chopped up baby deer. over the next few weeks this happened at least ten more times. everytime i nearly got sick.

finally the pepco field guys came out to check my acreage and it just happened to be I had taken out 2 (twins i assumed) about 40 minutes ago, which was only a 20 foot walk across two swathes... so i walked them over and showed them. You know their response? "oh, yea, it happens all the time...they dont move when any threats coming" so being a young woman I asked...is there any way to stop it from happening, ive killed nearly 15 baby deer in the past couple of weeks. they joked about putting deer whistles on the tractor...just made me sick and feel stupid

so the halfway short of it was...one warm morning i was cutting in the rain (boss was a slavedriver), well trying to cut...it was damp enough that the grass matted down a bit. WAIT! what was that...a baby ahead of me...i could just make out the tan and spots. i shut down, hopped down and went to move the little guy (grandpop also said i could move him and it would be ok)....
let me tell you... blah blah happened, cautisiously approached him... sitting there holding that fawn in my lap, feeling it just shiver and try its hardest to stay stone still....feeling the wet wirey hairs and smelling damp animal.... thats an experience as well....

I quit then and there. yes, i understand that there are still probbaly hundreds of fawns that get chopped up every year along those lines....but - my soul was cleaned a bit by that experience and i could sleep without envisioning the little bloody chunks..or hearing that meat into a wood chipper sound....i wasnt going back.
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I was running a combine when I was a kid and I saw a fawn laying in the field. I yanked on the lever and raised the header and clamped on the brakes. I only got the tip of one of its ears. I went down and grabbed it and put it in the cab with me and took it home.

I fed it with a baby bottle and the thing followed me around for weeks. It was like a dog :lol: In the morning my dad would open the door and it would clomp up the stairs and go into my room and lick my face.:lol:

Finally I realized that it was growing and it would get too big to handle and being tamed it would not have a fear of humans which in the country in GA is not healthy. I called the University of GA and they wanted it so we put it in the cab of the pickup and drove it the 60 miles to their cooperative wildlife extension facility. As far as I know it grew up in a herd of deer they kept there.

The only other fawn I came across was when I was chopping silage with a 3 row chopper and it didn't make it. It was pretty ghastly. :dead:
 
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Those mental images are pretty grizzly... Wouldn't want to have been there.

Sounds like heavy machinery reduces the population more than any other method right now...
 
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GWguy said:
Those mental images are pretty grizzly... Wouldn't want to have been there.

Sounds like heavy machinery reduces the population more than any other method right now...
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awwwwww...man horrible...this is one...have to go get the girls...I'll load some better ones so you can see my hand against them for size in awhile after dindin. Thanks all!
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GWguy said:
Those mental images are pretty grizzly... Wouldn't want to have been there.

Sounds like heavy machinery reduces the population more than any other method right now...
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Cars. The insurance industry is the #1 proponent of increased limits and longer seasons on deer. My uncle lives in Michigan and they have a terrible problem with deer V. car. I was up there a couple years ago at Easter and there are literally herds of hundreds everywhere.

In all my years farming, wait it was only 18 :lol:, I only heard of a few. Not that much going on in the spring except planting and there is no cover in an open field.
 
belvak

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How sweet!! Great once-in-a-lifetime pics! BTW, I really like these better than the snakes! :lmao:
 
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belvak said:
How sweet!! Great once-in-a-lifetime pics! BTW, I really like these better than the snakes! :lmao:
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Thanks...it definately was once in a life time...I think I took 177 of them alone...I brought home another Copperhead but I will spare you all...Emilee wants me to teach it tricks...UGH!:lalala:
 
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