On this day today, I was reminded by Facebook that I saved a baby fawn we called Ossian from being eaten alive by my dog
This fawn was tick infested and had been abandoned by its mom . Starved and dehydrated I attempted the nurse it back to health.
Here’s what I learned
That I was very fortunate to have a friend of mine Alan who’s family actually owned a deer farm and he had bottled nursed fawns . The advise he gave me was awesome.
DE dusting works great for major tick infestations, and was used to clean it up.
The skittishness of the fawn slowly went away over the days and weeks that followed .
Some people attacked me on the post claimed I should’ve taken it to a shelter when most people at the shelters told me they would’ve just put it down.
Within weeks, it was already taking some solid food and again Alan was awesome in that regard.
Anti-hunting activists used the post to claim I was doing more harm than good. They claimed that they were gonna report me to the DNR.
Pro hunting advocates said my work was for naught because it was gonna die anyways and I should’ve left it in nature to be fed on by nature. This makes sense, but the fact that it was already on my farm and cornered by my dog, not in the woods, but in my driveway.. unless you consider my dog a natural resource, it would’ve been fed on by my dog
Pro gob-ment sycophants said they were gonna report me to DNR . Because obviously red tape straddled bureaucracies always know best and of course they have nothing better to do
Anti gob-ment free thinkers said the that I was already on the DNR watchlist because I had posted it.
Many of our loyal friends and fans know my heart and started calling me Radagast the brown …. Yet again 😀😀😀
Predators were drawn into this area because of this fawn . Maybe they were already tracking it

When the fawn was ready to depart , it jumped the enclosure fence and was gone , never to return  eight
Because of the severe damage done to one of the ears by the ticks I will always know this deer by its partially amputated ear
Speaking of DE although I have wiped out tens of thousands of potato bugs with it and watched them die en masse in the sun ,I have never seen ticks die in a never saw a tick situation like that. The blood bloated ticks died first..
Something else when it comes to tick infestations that I was unfamiliar with that they were piled on top of one another so that there was almost layers of ticks .
Would I do it again under the exact same circumstances ?
Yes
