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CENTER FOR WILDLIFE
REHABILITATION
AND
CONSERVATION
EDUCATION
REHABILITATION
AND
CONSERVATION
EDUCATION
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Spring time brings us lots of orphaned fawns to care for.
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- While we care for them they are kept in seclusion and we do everything possible to keep their exposure to humans to a minimum. This prevents them from becoming use to humans and hopefully keeps them safe and from becoming pest when they are released.
- We are licensed to rehabilitate only fawns and can not accept any deer that are old enough to have lost their white spots. Older deer do very poorly in captivity and can be dangerous to care for.
- Our deer enclosure has small openings through which we can pass their baby bottles of formula with out them seeing us. Once the deer are grown enough to jump the 4 foot fence at the back of the enclosure a gate is opened and they are free to roam. However for a few weeks they come back in anticipating another meal. It may take several weeks before they are completely independent.
- If you see a fawn alone in the wild, do not disturb it because a mother deer will leave her fawn alone and feed elsewhere so that predators are not attracted to the baby. For the first few weeks of it's life so they don't attract predators the fawn does not have a scent . It instinctively knows to lie very still. The mother will return to nurse only twice during the day. If you know for sure that the mother has been killed, do not attempt to raise the fawn yourself. Contact us immediately. Fawns raised by themselves do poorly once released.
- Deer eat a variety of fruits, herbs, grass, twigs, leaves of woody plants, and fungi. Adult deer need 6 to 8 pounds of green food per 100 pounds of body mass daily. Reproductive rates and survival during adverse winter conditions depends on the relative body fat stored during summer and fall feeding.
Additional information links:
http://www.nwrawildlife.org/home.asp
http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-10371_10402-67524--M_2003_5,00.html