Exotic Meat Market offers farm-raised Fallow Deer
Meat in the USA.
Fallow Deer are raised in Argentina, Austria,
Belarus, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Fiji,
Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg,
Moldova, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania,
Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United
Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria,
Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia for
meat.
Fallow Deer are amongst the prettiest Deer seen in
Europe. The Fallow Deer has a range of coat colors, from red, black, and brown
to pure white. Adult Fallow Deer have the same appearance as fawns, with white
spots covering their dark chestnut coats. The bucks have impressive, beautiful,
flattened antlers. Fallow Deer have powerful legs, despite them being relatively
short, and so are extremely fast. The shortness of their legs makes for a fascinating
body design overall.
Fallow Deer lives in various climates, from cool
to humid, to warm and dry areas. They prefer a combination of different
vegetation types, especially old broad-leaf deciduous forests, with grassy
areas here and there, but also in mixed forests, subalpine vegetation,
broad-leaf forests, grasslands, woodlands, scrublands, low mountains, and
savanna.
Fallow Deer is a social species, roaming into females
with fawns in one group and males in another group. Males and females only come
together during the breeding season. Throughout the year, they may mix freely
and socialize in groups in open areas. These Deer are active nocturnally, with
peak activity periods at dusk and dawn. They tend to lead a shy, withdrawn life
in the forests. Deer are more alert in open areas and smaller groups, with the
females being usually more alert than the males, especially when their fawns
are present.
Fallow Deer are herbivores eating a variety of
vegetation, primarily grasses, browse, and mast. Other items may be herbs,
dwarf shrubs, buds, leaves, shoots, and bark.
Fallow Deer are polygynous, where an adult male
mates with many females in one mating season. Males fight violently and often
during the mating season, though injuries are rare. Mating takes place from
September to January. Females usually bear a single fawn, following a gestation
period that lasts 33 to 35 weeks. Mothers do not rejoin the herd straight after
birth. They hide their fawn in dense vegetation and return during the day only
to nurse it (for every 4 hours during the first four months). The mother begins
weaning when her fawn is about 20 days old, continuing until about seven months
old. When the fawn is 3 to 4 weeks old, mother and fawn again join a herd of
mothers and their young. After about one year, the fawns are independent. Males
are sexually mature at 17 months old and females at about 16 months old.
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