Found a young Roe deer

[Macsky]

Supposed to be great tasting the roe but I don’t think I could bring myself to shooting one, not around here anyway with so few of them. No such issues with the red tho

 

[ollie989898]

We got this in early September.View attachment 1086703Now we’ve got this. They are a lot of work.View attachment 1086704

Well I'm no zoologist but that's the strangest dog I've ever seen. Does it ride around in the cab with you?

 

[CopperBeech]

Roe bucks do not make good pets. Several people have been killed by them. The recent cold spell will have been appreciated by all of Nature's scavengers who always seem to be in good condition in a hard winter.

You’d have to be a bit of a fanny to be killed by a roe buck to be fair.

 

[BAF]

Supposed to be great tasting the roe but I don’t think I could bring myself to shooting one, not around here anyway with so few of them. No such issues with the red tho

They do taste very good. And they're a doddle to deal with!

 

[Nick.]

We got this in early September.View attachment 1086703Now we’ve got this. They are a lot of work.View attachment 1086704

What species is (if you can tell yet ?)

 

[Dry Rot]

You’d have to be a bit of a fanny to be killed by a roe buck to be fair.

To be honest, I don't really know, it is just one of the things one hears about in the country. Quite a few have been killed by rutting red deer stags when testosterone over comes the wild animal's natural fear of man. Put those elements into a pet roe buck which hasn't any inhibition about approaching man (or woman, if you read the thread below) and you get a dangerous formula. Have you seen what they can do to a young tree?

Keeping a muntjac or Roe

Are there any Legal Issues in taking and hand rearing a muntjac or roe deer from the wild.

www.thestalkingdirectory.co.uk

 

[BAF]

To be honest, I don't really know, it is just one of the things one hears about in the country. Quite a few have been killed by rutting red deer stags when testosterone over comes the wild animal's natural fear of man. Put those elements into a pet roe buck which hasn't any inhibition about approaching man (or woman, if you read the thread below) and you get a dangerous formula. Have you seen what they can do to a young tree?

Keeping a muntjac or Roe

Are there any Legal Issues in taking and hand rearing a muntjac or roe deer from the wild.

www.thestalkingdirectory.co.uk

Theyre quite dangerous on shoots in game cover they'll just plough you out the way and they have very spikey appendages!

 

[Jerry]

Theyre quite dangerous on shoots in game cover they'll just plough you out the way and they have very spikey appendages!

i was on a peg last week. 35 fallow came hooning through the line….I side stepped as required…

 

[BAF]

i was on a peg last week. 35 fallow came hooning through the line….I side stepped as required…

I was on a peg just before Xmas. #2 right on the edge of the line as a walking gun. Someone had lent me a left handed gun for the last drive and I was hoping I'd shoot significantly better than I had been when the beaters shouted Deeeeeeeer!!!! A massive fallow buck came hurtling out of the wood. I shouted to the captain to enquire if it counted as ground game or not...not sure #4 steel would have stopped him though.

 

[Welderloon]

Any tick on it @Macsky, spoke to a keeper before x-mas who discovered one absolutely covered

Supposed to be great tasting the roe but I don’t think I could bring myself to shooting one, not around here anyway with so few of them. No such issues with the red tho

We are over run with Roe down here, they are a dangerous pest on the roads

 

[Treecreeper]

I've found two recently on separate occasions dead beside woodland tracks, both still warm.with no injury or apparent ailment.
The roe in the op looks full in the coat which is a good sign in roe because of their relatively small body mass suffer quickly in inclement weather especially with any parasite burden.Saying that I seldom see liver fluke in roe and only occasionally lungworm in one particular area. Looking at the picture it looks slightly uncomfortable in its lying position, with the rear leg.in an unnatural position maybe rear end trauma, as stated above roe don't do stress very well,the fact that you got that close indicates a major problem.

 

[Lowland1]

What species is (if you can tell yet ?)

It's a reedbuck. The stupidest of all antelope. They rely on a cloak of invisibility for protection. Basically they just hide or standstill thinking ' You can't see me' until it's too late and then have to run for it with a two yard head start.

 

[Lowland1]

Well I'm no zoologist but that's the strangest dog I've ever seen. Does it ride around in the cab with you?

Not yet. It likes to come in a watch the telly though. It's not a fan of wildlife documentaries.

 

[Lowland1]

While on this thread. My last hunting expedition.
Location North Lincolnshire. Weapon of choice VW Golf. It was icy and it was lucky not to take me out.

 

[Lincs Lass]

While on this thread. My last hunting expedition.
Location North Lincolnshire. Weapon of choice VW Golf. It was icy and it was lucky not to take me out.View attachment 1086842

They often got clobered near the golf course , game keepers lad was driving up the M180 before the fencing was erected .
Rudolf hit his car ,straight through the windscreen and landed on the passenger seat .

 

[Lowland1]

They often got clobered near the golf course , game keepers lad was driving up the M180 before the fencing was erected .
Rudolf hit his car ,straight through the windscreen and landed on the passenger seat .

This was between Bardney and Wragby. It ran out of the trees and there was nothing I could really do. Luckily I wasn’t going fast so the damage to the car was minimal. The deer not so.

 

[Two Tone]

Came across this today, very weak:
View attachment 1086692
This years kid at a guess. What do I do with her? Is she likely to have a fluke burden? Can you dose them? I picked her up and took her home

If it has got fluke, maybe 5cc of pour on Ivermectin would help.
I’ve reared orphaned Red deer before, but know from experience that Roe do not like captivity. So if you do take it home, do not put it in a building. Leave it in the garden. But they do stress and die of stress very easily.
If that one is orphaned, it should be old enough to have weaned. But if you want to try to feed it, you could try the powdered milk powder you give lambs. Cattle or sheep rearing nuts are ok for it to eat.

Years ago I reared an orphaned Red. First I put it with a Mare, who thought she had instantly foaled, but then nearly trod on him. So I put it in the garden. It then grew up with our dogs, so thought it was a dog. They would all get on the kids trampoline and play.
Then one day I came downstairs to find he’d opened the garden door, come in and laid down by the Aga.
Then back in the garden he ate my wife’s favourite Rose, so we put him in a field with a Jacob sheep and he thought he was a sheep.

Finally. I put him in the Land-rover and took him into one of our deer paddocks. He looked at them wondering what the hell all the others were. I left him and the sheep with the other deer. Every day he and the sheep were by the gate, him wanting his bottle of milk.
Then one day I went to see him and it was just the sheep there. Finally he realised he was a deer. He eventually became one of our best Breeding stags.

He got out several times and raided other peoples gardens. But I could get him to follow me back to the Deer fields.

 

[Treecreeper]

Roe don't do stress but seem to get over trauma to limbs quite well, I see several every year with breaks that have healed both to rear and fore legs, even missing feet and lower leg. If you see a male deer with uneven antler formation it usually indicates and previous injury to the opposite side of the body

 

[Two Tone]

If it has got fluke, maybe 5cc of pour on Ivermectin would help.
I’ve reared orphaned Red deer before, but know from experience that Roe do not like captivity. So if you do take it home, do not put it in a building. Leave it in the garden. But they do stress and die of stress very easily.
If that one is orphaned, it should be old enough to have weaned. But if you want to try to feed it, you could try the powdered milk powder you give lambs. Cattle or sheep rearing nuts are ok for it to eat.

Years ago I reared an orphaned Red. First I put it with a Mare, who thought she had instantly foaled, but then nearly trod on him. So I put it in the garden. It then grew up with our dogs, so thought it was a dog. They would all get on the kids trampoline and play.
Then one day I came downstairs to find he’d opened the garden door, come in and laid down by the Aga.
Then back in the garden he ate my wife’s favourite Rose, so we put him in a field with a Jacob sheep and he thought he was a sheep.

Finally. I put him in the Land-rover and took him into one of our deer paddocks. He looked at them wondering what the hell all the others were. I left him and the sheep with the other deer. Every day he and the sheep were by the gate, him wanting his bottle of milk.
Then one day I went to see him and it was just the sheep there. Finally he realised he was a deer. He eventually became one of our best Breeding stags.

He got out several times and raided other peoples gardens. But I could get him to follow me back to the Deer fields.

My Reds being fed their breakfast today.

 

[melted welly]

You’d have to be a bit of a fanny to be killed by a roe buck to be fair.

Did someone not put a post on a few year ago, a link to a blog by a, new to the lifestyle, outdoorsman. in USA or Canada.

Bloke had caught a small deer in a snare, reckoned he’d dispatch it by hand and ended up with broken arm, ribs, head injuries, teeth knocked out. Sounded horrendous but he’d written it in a very humorous way. Didn’t realise deer kicked with the front legs, or that they would bite. .