muntjac

[Ideation 8,217]

Best way to tell if they are about is to use your ears, not your eyes.

 

Also it's advised you kill either bucks, pregnant does, or juvenile does, as unpregnant does of breeding age, will nearly always have a follower hidden somewhere close, as they breed all year.

 

Do they really breed all year round though? Or at least is it common? Or is this just another 'fact' that keeps getting passed around. How many people have killed milky muntjack does in Nov/Dec/Jan? Shot or pre 2005 of course.

 

It's a question I was pondering the other day when watching a doe with a fawn the size of a leveret, I'm genuinely curious as to the answer....

 

I don't know mate, like i was saying, that' what is advised. Whether it's true or not i don't know, but i've heard it from folk who seem to know their stuff.

[DEERMAN 1,020]

Best way to tell if they are about is to use your ears, not your eyes.

 

Also it's advised you kill either bucks, pregnant does, or juvenile does, as unpregnant does of breeding age, will nearly always have a follower hidden somewhere close, as they breed all year.

 

Do they really breed all year round though? Or at least is it common? Or is this just another 'fact' that keeps getting passed around. How many people have killed milky muntjack does in Nov/Dec/Jan? Shot or pre 2005 of course.

 

It's a question I was pondering the other day when watching a doe with a fawn the size of a leveret, I'm genuinely curious as to the answer....

 

I don't know mate, like i was saying, that' what is advised. Whether it's true or not i don't know, but i've heard it from folk who seem to know their stuff.

think they breed every 6 month what i can remember ,best ask deer boys on stalking page

[TOMO 29,014]

i thought there gestation period was longer than 6 month deerman,, 7 maybe 9 month,,i could be wrong

 

born hunter i have found a very young munty fawn in december in a bramble bush,, 6 inch of snow evrywhere,,this was beating,,at the end of the drive the adult doubled back to the fawn

[Richie10 345]

Every 7 months, but the thing is they are pregnant straight away again so as they are bring up one another embryo is forming. That is why they are either with young or pregnant.

[Born Hunter 17,939]

i thought there gestation period was longer than 6 month deerman,, 7 maybe 9 month,,i could be wrong

 

born hunter i have found a very young munty fawn in december in a bramble bush,, 6 inch of snow evrywhere,,this was beating,,at the end of the drive the adult doubled back to the fawn

 

That's interesting TOMO, but is it a rarity or as common as the experts would have us believe I wonder? I mean rabbits are known to have kits all year round but it's not what I would call common, yes every year I kill the odd milky rabbit doe in december but it's not common considering the total number killed. Just wondering whether the muntjack does are constantly in young/feeding young as we are repeatably told by the experts....

[TOMO 29,014]

richie is correct ,, i just looked on line,, says 7 months gestation,,,fawns are weaned at 6-8 week, and totaly independent at at 6 months

[paulus 26]

richie is correct ,, i just looked on line,, says 7 months gestation,,,fawns are weaned at 6-8 week, and totaly independent at at 6 months

if theres are doe bet your bottom dollar theres a fawn somewhere and these are what the lads who were hunting them before the ban describe as slow in the open, its because shes leading the danger away from her fawn, young yearling buck is a different story older bucks are well schooled in escape and evasion and will seldom break cover no matter how much pressure they came under

[Guest borntoevade1988]

how often preban did you lot run muntjac in woods ..........coz some of you replie`s are away with the fairy`s

[paulus 26]

how often preban did you lot run muntjac in woods ..........coz some of you replie`s are away with the fairy`s

well there was that thursday afternoon

[moon pig 39]

one was killed on the parkway in sheffield not so long back.

 

Where you hear this?

[Guest FTBBTH]

is that the type paulus haha, whole corner of the ear missing on both sides

[paulus 26]

is that the type paulus haha, whole corner of the ear missing on both sides

yes mate and pottasium permanganate crystals dont make as much mess as the spray

[Guest FTBBTH]

i useto have that paulus, until that dog right there chewed up a brand new bottle..... his ears bleed whenever he shakes his head, his kennels just like blood sprayed so ive had to plaster them up, he cant help himself but to crash in at anything haha

[j1985 1,984]

Just heard of a friends terrier getting one side of it's neck opened up top to bottom and it's windpipe punctured after it accidentally flushed a munty buck out a bush while all his dogs where off lead. His lurcher got a leg hold after it bounced of a fence and the terrier went for a neck hold and got bitten! £500 down the vets....ouch!

[Richie10 345]

Dogs have been killed by them before.

As for running them in woods, it depends, all woods are different. What I know is that they can just dissappear into thick cover with ease.