When are fawns usually born in SE MI?

[jmoser]

Will you see fawns in April or do they not drop until May or later in SE MI?

[Gramps]

Yes you will see fawns dropped in April, and not just in the southern part of the state.

[wally-eye]

My birthday is April 28th and thats about when I start seeing them around here every year.

[Liver and Onions]

The gestation period for deer is about 6 1/2 months. A doe bred between Nov. 5th-18th would drop the fawn(s) around May 20th-June 3rd. Any doe that misses being bred in Nov. will be come into estrus every 28 days until bred. Not unusual to have fawns born in late June(Dec. breeding). Sometimes in our area we have seen some very late fawns that were probably dropped in the later part of July(Jan. breeding). I have never seen April fawns. I'm sure that it happens, I just don't think that it is normal.

L & O

[DirtySteve]

I would say liver is abuot right. I live in the lapeer area. I have ahuge hayfield loaded with deer every night all summer. I watch them everyday with a spotting scope. the fawns show up the 1st or 2nd week of june every year. the doe's usually keep them in the cover for 10 to 14 days after they are born so i am gueesing that is why i see them around 1st to 2nd week of june.

[HunterHads]

April is early. I have always noticed the deer in Otsego county drop between mid May - the first week or two of June. You can always tell because all of a sudden our deer sightings will drop dramatically for those few weeks as the doe are off having there fawns. Then about the 2nd week of June there back with the little ones.

[blk82072]

" Fawns are born in late May or early June after 200-day gestation period."

A sentence I found on the DNR website.

I also read some where ( I cant find where now ) that Memorial Weekend is the biggest weekend for fawns to be born in most of Michigan.

[jjc155]

I have always heard/read that first 2 weeks of june as an average for fawns in southern michigan. basically 6.5-7months for gestation.

J-

[2ESRGR8]

Its rare but we have had birddogs find fawns during April and since we have to stop training on wild birds after the 15th those rare occurences must have been before that date.

[fairfax1]

I would agree with many of the posters above. Memorial Day is a good birthday.

I'm in southcentral LP. I've always...since a kid on the farm...believed that the vast majority of fawns are dropped in a 3-week window ---- the 10 days before Memorial Day and the 10 days after.

I've heard of April fawns but have never seen one. There've been previous threads on this topic. Probably about this time last year, and the year before.........etc.

I nearly stepped on a very newly born fawn two years ago, couldn't have been more than hours old..........May 18th, if I remember correctly.
That is my earliest.