Hope this video plays. It was taken on 6th July. Out taking a look around today and the doe is on her own and there is a youngster in a different part of the ground and seems to be independent. Could it be the same one? The youngster in video seems young to be on its own now.
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Hope this video plays. It was taken on 6th July. Out taking a look around today and the doe is on her own and there is a youngster in a different part of the ground and seems to be independent. Could it be the same one? The youngster in video seems young to be on its own now.
Followers I have found (does) will be around until the older doe has following newborn, seen the older doe head butt a follower as it got in between the doe and her latest offspring.
I good ID for a young independant is there gate as it is often faster and can charge around like a lamb.
I have seen a doe feeding then a while later the youngster came looking for its mother but it was too late.
Interesting, thanks all. Wonder if the one I saw on its own was the previous follower then. Certainly was smaller (but not tiny 
) and not as twitchy as the adults. We surprised each other on a corner and most of adults round us would have run.
Have been keeping an eye out for the little one but no sign since the 6th and same buck is following a doe still. Were thinking same as @Tim.243 doe first. Buck is very nice and still in velvet so watched him for about half an hour last weekend.
) and not as twitchy as the adults. We surprised each other on a corner and most of adults round us would have run. Have been keeping an eye out for the little one but no sign since the 6th and same buck is following a doe still. Were thinking same as @Tim.243 doe first. Buck is very nice and still in velvet so watched him for about half an hour last weekend.
Shoot the buck as he will eat just as well now than when he is in hard antler! There will be a buck turn up to take his place and so on it will roll.Interesting, thanks all. Wonder if the one I saw on its own was the previous follower then. Certainly was smaller (but not tiny
Have been keeping an eye out for the little one but no sign since the 6th and same buck is following a doe still. Were thinking same as @Tim.243 doe first. Buck is very nice and still in velvet so watched him for about half an hour last weekend.
I can wait a little while for him. Got the doe(s)? mooching around and also a small roe buck. Also waiting for them to harvest the bean fields which will give us more activity.
Surprised by this. My understanding was that muntjac fawns typically stay with their mothers only until the next fawn arrives, i.e., around 7 months. I've seen plenty of small muntjac very much on their own (and plenty of smaller ones whose mothers were nearby).
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Not a munty or a roe, but last year I was doing my pre cull count in late Sept and I watched a cwd fawn suckle from its mother.
This is a deer that around 5 weeks later would be on the menu!
From my observations most cwd young split from their mothers before the rut (might be like sheep that don’t come into oestrus if they are lactating and feeding young, so kick the young out in time for the rut to start) but will hang out in pairs with other young deer until the spring.
The mothers might have the odd one lingering near to them, but I have never seen them suckle once November starts.
This is a deer that around 5 weeks later would be on the menu!
From my observations most cwd young split from their mothers before the rut (might be like sheep that don’t come into oestrus if they are lactating and feeding young, so kick the young out in time for the rut to start) but will hang out in pairs with other young deer until the spring.
The mothers might have the odd one lingering near to them, but I have never seen them suckle once November starts.
That's interesting.
I've seen fallow fawns still suckling their dams in March, so at around 9 months old, by which time the doe is well on in her next pregnancy.
This ride the farmer had seen one doe on his rounds to the pens, I see 3 pairs of Fallow Does and Fawn's waiting in the high seat.
Muntjac are like iceberg's most of it is underwater and most of them are in cover!
Yep. Lots of lonicera (?I think) one place I go and it seems to be a favourite of theirs. Learned the hard way
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