Roe kid

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

Martin came up for a stalk and the long and short is that we never saw a buck but did chance on a kid in the grass ,motionless as only they can be .Estimated at maybe 2 weeks old but no more .Mother moved in as we walked away .Couldnt see what the sex was but made our evening.

[martin 332]

I know I am a big ugly bugger,but,it truly made my season,I had a smile as wide as a very wide thing.

 

Martin

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

Just comparing it to the one I discovered last year...

 

 

A distinct colour difference!

[Guest busterdog]

Beautiful pictures lads, as they say a bad day out is better than a good day in.

[Hannah4181 260]

They are just so fragile looking . . . i know it goes completely against everything thats right . . but if i found one that close, i think i'd have to touch it! Although i would try my absolute hardest not to!

[FightTheBan 1,147]

Cant tell in the photos if thats a young barley crop or grass...if it's the latter it looks ready for the chop

Ive seen a young deer go through a mower and it aint pretty.

Any silage fields on the farm I work at that border on rough ground i walk through with the dogs before they cut it. When you see how tight they sit its inevitable some will get caught.

FTB

[waidmann 105]

at the speed the newer mowers go they all get it if you don't go through with the dogs beforehand, i always found it better for the deer to put a portable radio and some flashing lights(the kind that sometimes go missing from building sites ) in the field the day before and the doe picks them up and takes them away,i still checked eith the dogs for pheasant nests etc(for the incubator/bantams).

i have always tried to get the contractors to mow from one side to the other without going around the fences first(they did it when i was there but usually not when i wasn't ) resulting in most creatures being decapitated( they cut so low even the mice lose their heads!!!!).

well worth trying to speak to the contracters/farmers who have these big and fast mowers imho.

 

waidmann

[FightTheBan 1,147]

at the speed the newer mowers go they all get it if you don't go through with the dogs beforehand, i always found it better for the deer to put a portable radio and some flashing lights(the kind that sometimes go missing from building sites ) in the field the day before and the doe picks them up and takes them away,i still checked eith the dogs for pheasant nests etc(for the incubator/bantams).

i have always tried to get the contractors to mow from one side to the other without going around the fences first(they did it when i was there but usually not when i wasn't ) resulting in most creatures being decapitated( they cut so low even the mice lose their heads!!!!).

well worth trying to speak to the contracters/farmers who have these big and fast mowers imho.

 

waidmann

 

 

I appreciate your point mate, but ive worked for a contractor and if you dont do the end rigs first the jobs a total bastart. They will go round the field 6-8 times then start on long bouts, anything in the end rigs is fecked, but in the middle of the field they at least have a chance.

 

They are running a business and have to operate economically at the end of the day.

 

Best solution is to find out when they plan to cut and walk it out with the dogs.

 

FTB

[farmerkev09 105]

To all the lads who walk the fields with the dogs welldone your true gentlemen

 

farmer

[Butler 396]

Just comparing it to the one I discovered last year...

 

 

A distinct colour difference!

 

 

That pic is a cracker mate hope it made it to adulthood. I've had fallow like that but never a roe my guess would be it would make a cream as an adult.

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

The grass where this one was is still very short and will be cut for hay when, luckily the kids will be up a bit .This kid was in a patch of cosksfoot which always pushes higher in a meadow .

[Guest busterdog]

FD empty you messages pls.

[Yokel Matt 918]

Very nice lads - Never seen one like that... one of these fine days hopefully. It reminds me I should try and walk the fields and try to avoid a situation like last year where a pair were caught up in the mower on that top field of mine

[wireviz 8]

Its that time of year again and the roe seem to be happier to put the young out in the fields my farmers cut mainly the first week in june weather permitting i take the big dog a walk if i can but most of them do look out for deer and the new contractor cutters stop if something that large is in front of it.

[v-max 2]

Such a great thing to see the kid's our doe's are at bursting point now but our cover is getting so high we very rarely see kids till there up a bit.