Doe w 6 fawns! What’s up w that?

[Treeshark]

My son filmed this yesterday while jogging in Austin. Is this doe the designated baby sitter or what?

https://youtu.be/zyDxIrEeCtI

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[miket]

Slut

[wytex]

Pronghorn use nursery groups for fawns all the time.

Instead of shaming that doe maybe call her a good babysitter miket.

[gonehuntin68]

The other mothers were probably close by. We see this all the time at my place. Just two days ago, we had 7 fawns out together with 1 doe but after about 15 minutes of the fawns running around, 4 more doe's came out. All these fawns and doe's bed in a thin patch of brush next to my place.

[deerwatcher51]

Interesting

[Landrover]

Must be related to the "octomom!"

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[kruppa24]

Interesting

[N.DaWoods]

I have seen this many times. I think the fawns want to hang out with other fawns, aka play, and end up congregating together. The mommas are usually within an earshot away.

[easeup]

yes just mothers day out program working

[DTala]

she isn't skinny enough for all of those to be hers!!! She is babysitting.

I did have a doe that had four fawns the same night another doe had three fawns right beside my house. I walked out the next morning and found six fawns with one doe, the other doe still looked fat. But the second doe was still carrying a third fawn she dropped about noon.

One of the quartet was 1.5# and died that night, another died a week later and two survived, both of those were 2.5# birthweight fawns.

[DTala]

I also used to have an older doe that would feed four at a time with a couple more trying to get in. Pretty comical to watch.

[muzzlebrake]

Fawn daycare

[kurt68]

Looks like seven.