Austin Wildlife Rescue

🌸Fawn Facts! 🦌

It’s that time of year when you’ll start seeing adorable, wobbly-legged fawns around! If you are lucky enough to have deer in your area that are having babies, here are some helpful tips for our fawn friends.

💛 A fawn found alone is not necessarily orphaned. Female Deer (does) will leave their babies for hours, sometimes until dusk, to forage for food before they come back to nurse their young.

💛 Fawns lay and sleep curled up like cats, this is called “pancaking”. A baby curled up and quiet is just waiting for mom to return.

💛 Mom often finds unique locations to “park” her baby while she’s away. If the fawn is not in danger, then please leave it alone.

💛 “Curled” ears don’t always mean dehydration. Fawns are often born with somewhat curled or wilted ear tips.

‼️A fawn in distress or injured will typically lay on its side with legs stretched out.

‼️Crying and wandering around or following people is a good indication that the fawn could be orphaned.

‼️Any fawn obviously injured or covered in flies or ants needs to be brought to us right away!

☎️ WE ALWAYS RECOMMEND CALLING BEFORE TAKING ACTION (512-472-9453) so our staff can help assess the situation to ensure that every effort is made to reunite the fawn with its mother.