Post by zeeriverrat on Jun 16, 2016 8:27:41 GMT -5
We have been doing habitat improvement on our 40 acres in the Ozarks for the last 5 or 6 years. We have finally completed just about all of our planned projects. When we bought the place our game cameras showed zero fawns the first year or two. This last week we were up at the cabin and one after noon we sat on the porch and watched 6 different does and 7 fawns feeding on the clover plot that is on the hill across from the cabin.
When I took this picture I thought it was just a doe, we couldn't see the fawn from the cabin...
This fawn was feeding alone when we saw it...my sister was concerned it was abandoned.... It laid in the clover for 6 hours getting up once in a while to look around...
Just before dark, the doe showed up and collected that little one.....
At one point a doe with twins and a doe with one fawn came from behind our camp, walked down the hill to the food plot and water hole... At the water hole those twins wet nuts...running circles and splashing in the water, no wonder it stays muddy! it was hilarious to watch!
They fed around in the clover and then moved up the hill and off into the woods....
We have another big clover plot on the other side of the 40 and I am sure that there are more does rearing fawns there too... I knew that they were raising fawns on the 40 but I had no idea it was that many. Our strategy is that if the does use our 40 as part of their core area, they will always be around and the bucks will follow.... We are looking forward to hunting season!!