3 doe - 3 fawns - 3 locations = Sept 1st ==

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I started a new job this week with a gas company. I toured around Greene County all week and saw a few deer. No bucks(that I know of, some were too far away to ID), maybe 8 doe, all with pairs of fawns, all fawns were tiny and spotted.

I think going from winter to summer coats is nicer, they look pretty bad going from summer to winter.. IMHO.. .

Many of the deer around here that I see everyday are also, as RSB stated, starting to change to winter coats.

I'll set out the trail camera tomorrow and see if I can catch a few pics of it.... lots of apples starting to fall around here off the neighboring camp's apple trees so it's hard to figure where the deer are traveling, it varies immensely from day to day right now...

  Out in a bow stand on the first day few years back and a Doe came in with a little spotty that actually walked UNDER her right by my stand. Talk bout a late  breeder.
   Love those little tender things.

    Would think those average size ones do loose the spots on the change cause they disappear real sudden every year- The real late drops  must not be old enough to have a coat change till later- if they make it.

ORIGINAL: tull66

Doc's pix #2 and #3 are very clear that the fawns are very small. According to RSB the "spot drop" is determined by the time of year(amount of daylight), not their age. Personal observations say otherwise.

 
You are correct that late fawns will stay in their summer coats and thus have spots later than earlier born fawns.
 
We have way fewer late born fawns in this part of the state now than we had before antler restrictions. Before antler restrictions a high percentage of even the adult does weren’t getting bred during their first or even second cycle. Now pretty much all of our adult does are being bred before the end of November.
 
In some areas there might be more late born fawns now than before but that really might be positive instead of a negative thing. It very well could be that those late born fawns you are seeing are coming from juvenile does that weren’t being bred at all before antler restrictions. Having a higher percentage of the juvenile does bred, though perhaps a month later than the adults, is actually a sign that the old late breeding cycle of the adult does is being corrected. If the adult does are bred when they are first in cycle they will put their fawns on the ground earlier. Then since those fawn were born earlier more of them will reach breeding weight their first summer and get bred as juveniles during their first fall. Granted their fawns have a lower survival rate than fawns from adult does but even if just a few of them survive that is a plus not a negative.
 
As a side note, nearly all of the adult deer a saw this evening were in their winter coats. Three of the four bucks I saw were still in velvet and the forth was just in the process of shedding with bloody antlers.
 
It is all right on time with what has been happening every year in the past.
 
R.S. Bodenhorn

He titled the post Sept 1st.

Once one's creditability is gone is really hard to gain it back.

I saw a small spotted fawn the last day of archey about 10 years ago or so, that was pretty wild. Still with its mom of course.It was very lucky because I was drawn on her until the little one came running out of the thicket.

We pulled some cameras yesterday and still have 3-4 spotted fawns running around.  Based on prior years, this is nothing unusual.
 
A few years back I saw a fawn with spots during the first week of archery.