Young stag
Jun 15, 2020 15:21:39 #
This is a young stag that was born on our property. My wife feeds him an apple every day. He sure is growing fast!
Jun 15, 2020 15:42:42 #
Jun 15, 2020 15:44:55 #
Dlevon wrote:
This is a young stag that was born on our property. My wife feeds him an apple every day. He sure is growing fast!
Beautiful photo of the deer but looks more like a buck whitetail deer than a European stag which is not found naturally anywhere in America.
Dennis
Jun 15, 2020 15:48:11 #
dennis2146 wrote:
Beautiful photo of the deer but looks more like a buck whitetail deer than a European stag which is not found naturally anywhere in America.
Dennis
Dennis
It is a whitetail. I meant a young male! SAB
Jun 15, 2020 15:49:56 #
JeffDavidson wrote:
Lucky you.
Not when his brothers and sisters roam the yard LOL
Jun 15, 2020 15:52:02 #
davyboy
Loc: Anoka Mn.
Dlevon wrote:
This is a young stag that was born on our property. My wife feeds him an apple every day. He sure is growing fast!
Very beautiful does he eat it out of your hand?
Jun 15, 2020 16:00:46 #
davyboy wrote:
Very beautiful does he eat it out of your hand?
He will only get within 3 feet of my wife. She then puts it on the ground, where he eats it. He's still a little nervous around her. He won't let me get within 15 feet!
Jun 16, 2020 07:53:44 #
At our little country golf course we found an orphaned fawn who came to the club house a couple of times a day
to eat grapes, lettuce, potato chips, peanut butter crackers, etc., right out of your hand or from a paper plate.
She wondered as she pleased over the 5,000 or so acres where the course and its 100 acre lake are located.
Many people told us that she could not survive that diet and all the contact with humans. We got to see her
many times and she had at least one baby every year it seemed. Last year after being with us 23 years she just did not come back. What a joy she was to many. The Starr of Starr Hollow Golf Club she was.
to eat grapes, lettuce, potato chips, peanut butter crackers, etc., right out of your hand or from a paper plate.
She wondered as she pleased over the 5,000 or so acres where the course and its 100 acre lake are located.
Many people told us that she could not survive that diet and all the contact with humans. We got to see her
many times and she had at least one baby every year it seemed. Last year after being with us 23 years she just did not come back. What a joy she was to many. The Starr of Starr Hollow Golf Club she was.
Jun 16, 2020 11:14:22 #
A great story! We have had a groundhog and their offspring continue living under our shed for the last 35 years. They have one or two babies every year. This year we only had one, and he's doing very well!
Jun 16, 2020 11:26:12 #
Our golf course, Starr Hollow Golf Club (google it), was built supposedly on the spot where Belle Starr (aka The Bandit Queen) hid stolen horses when she was running with the James/Younger gang in the 1880's.
A local ad man wrote a book about this some 20 years ago.
Anyway, our prize rescued deer became known as Belle and was the darling of all. One year she had two babies and we named them Pitch and Putt.
Oh, well, back to work.
A local ad man wrote a book about this some 20 years ago.
Anyway, our prize rescued deer became known as Belle and was the darling of all. One year she had two babies and we named them Pitch and Putt.
Oh, well, back to work.
Jun 16, 2020 12:26:01 #
Jun 16, 2020 13:29:37 #
Beautiful shot. I know it is neat to be around the deer daily but remember, your wife is making him less scared of humans and one day hunting season will open and he will not have the same wild advantage of others. You could get robbing him of senses he needs to survive.
Jun 16, 2020 19:51:52 #
scooter1
Loc: Yacolt, Wa.
dennis2146 wrote:
Beautiful photo of the deer but looks more like a buck whitetail deer than a European stag which is not found naturally anywhere in America.
Dennis
Dennis
Just about to say the same thing.
Jun 16, 2020 22:24:03 #
Jun 18, 2020 13:15:15 #
Country Boy wrote:
Beautiful shot. I know it is neat to be around the deer daily but remember, your wife is making him less scared of humans and one day hunting season will open and he will not have the same wild advantage of others. You could get robbing him of senses he needs to survive.
Here in New Jersey we are overrun with deer in our suburban area. There's no hunting here!
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