Northern Rancher
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This old doe looks like she's got a few tough days ahead of her-she looks pretty healthy and has a nice fawn at side-we'll probably waste a tag and take her once season opens-I can't see her making the winter.
I would just do it without asking but I know others who have called fish and game about wounded wildlife and they just told them to shoot it. Like if its close to town F&G will come out to help you hunt for it. But they wont make you tag it even if its during the season.Northern Rancher said:Well archery starts soon-we can kind of keep an eye on her and if she starts to suffer we'll tag her. Unfortunately SERM doesn't view acts of mercy as legal-not losing my hunting rights and guns over a deer-I guess Ty can bring out one of his buddies who are treaty to take care of it.
Northern Rancher said:Roper Ab don't ever make the mistake of assuming there is any common sense in the SERM dept. in Saskatchewan. Way too many cases of guys doing the right thing and ending up in a jackpot over it. Ty found a dead buck a few years back and we took it in to get a possession permit-well it was a nice deer so they were going to seize it. We had a little discussion and I told him he'd be seizing horn chips because I'd chop it up before I'd let them rip off my eight year old boy. Like I said I feel sorry for the deer but I'm not going to risk a bunch of crap helping her out. Her fawn is still spotted so the longer she hangs on the better it is for it.
the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:why wouldn't they be able to give antibiotics to the mother, and the fawn keep nursing? It happens with cows all the time.
the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:Well, if that's not an abcess, and for some reason ended up bein somethin genetic. I don't think I'd want that fawn runnin round to grow up and take a chance on eatin it later down the road either. Might be best to do away with both of em now in my opinion.
If it's infection, what kinda milk is that fawn gettin? Yuck. No way would I want that fawn to grow to an age where some one hunting and not knowing what it's been thru would kill it, process it, and feed it to his family.