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[RedTop]

Here in southern WV, farmers are busy with their first cutting of hay for the season. Tractors are in the field early cutting, raking and baling hay. These tiny fawns are a nightmare to farmers. A doe will leave her fawns bedded down in a thick hay field while she goes off to feed. The fawns are taught to stay put until she returns, and they will not move, even when a tractor is headed straight for them. Farmers do watch for fawns bedded down in their hay field, and will physically move them, but most have at one time or another run over these newborns in the thick high grass.

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@RedTop wrote:
Here in southern WV, farmers are busy with their first cutting of hay for the season. Tractors are in the field early cutting, raking and baling hay. These tiny fawns are a nightmare to farmers. A doe will leave her fawns bedded down in a thick hay field while she goes off to feed. The fawns are taught to stay put until she returns, and they will not move, even when a tractor is headed straight for them. Farmers do watch for fawns bedded down in their hay field, and will physically move them, but most have at one time or another run over these newborns in the thick high grass.

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Hi RedTop..........where we built our house use to be a large hay field and we were told that the deer all came here to feed and bed down.  We were told exactly what you have said.  The deer still come here and we have been here for 10 years.  I can see what you are saying about them staying put and how it is a problem for the farmers.