Deer Stalking Classic Reprint

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Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267543007
Total Pages : 26 pages
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Download or read book Deer written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Deer: Their Habits and Management; By Underwood The late frosts cut off all the early fern shoots). When the fawn is dropped the doe, unless disturbed, carefully tends and suckles it, and after a few hours it is able to follow its mother for a little. She then retires to feed until it is time to go and suckle it again; and how wonderful is the instinct that enables her to go and find her own fawn in the midst of fern abounding with other than hers. For the first fortnight the fawns lay up a good deal in the middle of the day; in the morning and evening they may be seen sucking the does or frolicking about among themselves. After this time they are found more or less with the herd, and opportunity must be taken to kill off the fawns belong ing to the oldest does. If this is neglected, in a hard winter the old does die and their fawns too; whereas, if the fawn is destroyed, the doe will most likely get fat, and be good venison in the ensuing season. All the fawns dropped after July should be killed, as those bred late seldom thrive; this is true, I believe, of almost all animals. I may mention here as a fact, that in a certain park, though the deer killed were generally fat, they were small, and the owner having, from the loss of his keeper, to get another, the incomer at once adopted the practice of carefully selecting early fawns to leave for stock, as well as taking care to leave any particularly fine buck for an extra season, and in six years the weight of the bucks increased from 90 lb. To 120 lb. There is an opinion that the late fawns are dropped by young does, and some persons have con. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.