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We believe fallow venison is the food of the past, present and future, offering health benefits not found in other meats.
We have been farming fallow deer since 1989
and have 65 does. Before buying deer our experience had been with cattle and sheep and it wasn’t long before we learned that raising fallow deer is a totally new ball game. Unlike cattle and sheep the
fallow deer have their babies with no help from us and do much better on their own. They need far better fencing since if the fence won’t hold water chances are it won’t hold deer either. 
Our first experience trying to feed an orphan fawn taught us that orphan fawns are
not “bottle babies” but “pan babies”. When our first orphan fawn almost starved while we tried to teach it to take milk from a bottle and nipple, as we would have
with a calf or lamb, we had her suck our fingers as we lowered them into a pan of milk. As soon as she got the idea that she could drink the milk from the pan she was away and thriving.
The same predators that endanger our sheep are dangerous for the deer. We still have to keep a watch for cougars, eagles, coyotes and bears although with the
deer fencing bears are seldom much of a problem.
The deer have their young later in the spring which lessens the risk of the fawns being lost because of late
wintery weather. The bucks are taken from the does for a short time in December in order to avoid the
does fawning late in the season and the fawns not being old and hardy enough to survive the upcoming fall and winter. |
