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- The fawns grow rapidly and exhibit
a precocious development of antlers.
At 2 months the antlers are
1 to 2 inches or more in length and
at 3 to 3 1/2 months over [word crossed out] about a foot
in length. Normally they are
simple spikes but not infrequently
they have a small shovel.
The juvenile coat is lost at
3-4 months + replaced by the
first annual pelage.
M. Polk tells me that some
doe fawns breed during their
first autumn + give birth
to their first fawn when they
are just a year old
The oldest adult cow seen
by me had been ear marked
in 1937 - she had calved this
year. 12 to 14 is said to be
about the maximum life span.
Dr A.E. Parsild informs me
that the ideal ratio is about
1 ad [adult] buck (2 yrs [years] or so) to each
40 ad [adult] cows (yearlings or over). In
castrating fawns 7% [male symbol] left as breeding
stock is the rough figure used.
Moult:- Yearling [male symbol]'s + [female symbol]'s were ahead of
the rest of the herd + many were
almost clean at roundup.
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