Been seeing her around, she moves ok but something is real wrong. She's by herself a lot. The pic doesn't show how thin she is, you can count her ribs easily.
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Young doe sure is skinny; may be a recoverable injury and not a disease. Poor thing is eating Fescue grass... give her acorns & clover!
MickThompson
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Every summer doe that had a fawn looks poor. I wonder if she had one and lost it to a predator, bush hog, cat, etc?
She might just be so old that her teeth are too worn to effectively grind acorns & woody browse anymore. The downward sloped hip and small ear : head ratio looks like an old deer to me. Young deer have humped hips and dumbo ears. My guess is that girl is ancient.
megalomaniac
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Extremely poor condition for whatever reason. Not much longer in this world I suspect.
