Why Farm Fallow Deer?
Fallow Deer are a gentle species that adapt well to farming or ranching even small or intense farming situations. They are good natured, incidences of bullying and hair pulling are almost unheard of. About the only time you find incidences of bucks fighting is when they are in the rut, (breeding season). Fallow Deer are healthy animals. They have very few birthing problems, Dystocia. They have shown amazing resistance to other diseases, including Malignant Catarrhal Fever, which can be devastating to other deer species. There has never been a confirmed case of Malignant Catarrhal Fever in Fallow Deer in North America. Fallow Deer are not as susceptible to Copper Deficiency, Yersiniosis, Lungworm, and Chronic Wasting Disease, as are other species of American farmed deer. Fallow Deer are relatively easy to transport, they do not fight in close quarters, except when the bucks are in the hard antlers. They will move through deer handling facilities without bottlenecks or other major diffic
