Got a call today from my local police department about a road kill inside the city limits.
When I picked it up it would have been hard to miss that she was lactating, but this doe still had a fetus inside.
It wan't until I discovered the fetus that I realized she wasn't warm enough.
Unfortunately she had been hit pretty hard, and then abandoned.
By the time I got the call and arrived on scene she was already cooling off and getting stiff.
The fetus was fully developed, but very small.
It couldn't have weighed more than 20 pounds, if that.
I was sad to see it was a buck.
I've gotten road kill in just about every month of the year in the past, but I've never butchered a deer and found a fetus.
It got me wondering what time of year are fawns born?
This is already the later part of May.
I would have thought that would be late for a spring birth.
When I picked it up it would have been hard to miss that she was lactating, but this doe still had a fetus inside.
It wan't until I discovered the fetus that I realized she wasn't warm enough.
Unfortunately she had been hit pretty hard, and then abandoned.
By the time I got the call and arrived on scene she was already cooling off and getting stiff.
The fetus was fully developed, but very small.
It couldn't have weighed more than 20 pounds, if that.
I was sad to see it was a buck.
I've gotten road kill in just about every month of the year in the past, but I've never butchered a deer and found a fetus.
It got me wondering what time of year are fawns born?
This is already the later part of May.
I would have thought that would be late for a spring birth.