That's quite the avatar of that cute lil guy! Yeah I can DEFINITELY RELATE to the open the door for the four!
This December 31st(Sunday) will end my full time career regarding employment. From then on I am weekend employed only. That will leave me time to finally get my acreage back up as well as start on the goat/deer complex. Due to the influx of ever more Elk in our IMMEDIATE area & the wolves that feed upon them, I am concerned that the wolves will drive the White-Tailed deer out of my local area. One local herd of elk(132 strong by WFWD count) came right through my front vehicle access gate opening. I thought @ first it was an earth tremor then as the sound increased I thought it to be a tracked vehicle coming down my driveway(was night time) through the front field. I went out the front door of my shop & standing under the carport roof I watched what looked like an endless stream of elk moving through @ speed. About 20 feet out from the end of the carport there they were. I was so close to them that besides the mind numbing sight what sticks in my mind is the in & out sound of their breathing which could be picked up even through the rumbling sound of those hooves landing on the deck.
Below is a vid of one of the elk herds in our general area. This area they are crossing is about a mile & a half as a crow flies from my acreage, but I never dreamed that one night in the future they would come barreling through my acreage like a freight train under power!!! If you get on google maps just type in LakeWolf Creamery, Deer Park Wa. Just south of the driveway a 1/4 mile or so leading into the Creamery from Bridges Rd. is where the vid was recorded from. The house & 4 white columns are unmistakable.
I am trying my best to bring into todays world what I once had back in '66 through '68 but I am running out of time. Plus it will not be my Bitsy-Baby & her Black-Tailed(exotics) herd, but this time around just the generic ole White-Tailed deer(take what one can get). But, ANY deer is better than no deer @ all, like even homely ole Reindeer(bottom on the wish list). I do have several goat farms in the north west zeroed for my yet to be future Neuman#2, & also Pandora(Pandy)#3. If all else fails with the deer @ least I will have my Neuman & Pandora replacements permanently back.
I am heavily active in our international/online-YouTube deer whispering community so I cannot remember all the images/links I send to various posters in our community. So taking that into account I may have already sent some of the below links to you & if so just disregard those ones.
This weeks featured deer species is the terrifying MUNTJAC "Alien Deer Creature", with a special feature @ the end about Chinese Water Deer & "Treat The Does Right Or It's Fright & Flight"!
Vampire Deer/Water Deer/Musk Deer(Super Exotics)
Not all deer belong to family Cervidae(47 species globally) as some deer also belong to family Moschidae though both families are ungulates as well as ruminants(4 chamber digestive system) rumen, reticulum, omasum, abomasum which in plain English = CUD CHEWERS. All goats as well are ruminants though they belong to family Bovidae.
This lil guy comes complete from the factory with ALL the horns, bells & whistles! Some folks call these cute lil farts the "alien deer".
Horrifyingly CUTE!
Don't believe the act, they're just adorable.
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They are known to be 'goofy'(playful) but intimidating in appearance. Intimidating??? U be the judge like how could these lil 30# small-fries ever be considered intimidating???? The does lil baboos must only be guinea pig in size when coming out of the chute.
Unlike American buck fawns the Chinese Water Deer buck fawns appear to have not been taught proper dating/courtship mannerisms by their parents, like this teddy bear cute & innocent lil doe(she's a KNOCK OUT!) learns the hard way!
Keep me up to speed on the RESCUE operations/vids please!
Fawns/kid goats; to know them is to luv them!