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English: Complete series of antlers from a nine year old black-tailed deer. Here is evidence that the number of points does not accurately indicate age. Photograph by R. O. Rampont, Ukiah, California.

Title: California fish and game
Identifier: californiafishga12_1926cali (find matches)
Year: [1] (s)
Authors: California. Dept. of Fish and Game; California. Fish and Game Commission; California. Division of Fish and Game
Subjects: Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons
Publisher: (San Francisco, etc. ) State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game
Contributing Library: California Department of Fish and Game
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36 CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. know she was luingry. We fed her about every two lionrs during the day and twice during the night. "We named lier Yvonne. The following November, a young man who was leaving town and who was the owner of a five-year-old buck asked the Fish and Game Commission permission to transfer him to us. Dick was a nice at the same places, asking for her milk the same way. Two years ago in August, Yvonne had her first baby, Maggie, and a week after. we were very much surprised when Pierrette, only fifteen months old, become mother of a beautiful little buck. Jiggs-. Ver.v few people know that it takes two
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Fig. 10. Complete series of antlers from a nine year old black-tailed deer. Here is evidence that the number of points does not accurately indicate age. Photograph by R. O. Rampont, Ukiah, California. three pointer, of ordinary size, quite gentle. The next year after in May. another female fawn was found on the Orrs Spring road by the body of her dead mother and nearly starved. We raised Pierrette by the same method that we did Yvonne. She had e.xactly the same habits, sleeping hundred days for a doc to have a fawn. Last year in July both had twins and this last June, Yvonne, Pierrette and Maggie (the first deer born in our place) gave us six more fawns. In less than four.years, starting with two female fawns and a buck we found ourselves possessing a herd of fifteen deer.

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