Be careful bush hogging

I know what you mean. We lease out an 80 acre field to a neighbor for him to cut hay on. He works for a chicken company and since all of these tornadoes we had weeks ago came through he has been behind. He just now got him first cutting this weekend. Which means his next cutting will probably be about prime time for fawn drop. Normally the way it works out he misses it. We learned the hard way years ago when we found 8 dead fawns in the field killed by the cutter.

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Wish hay cutting season didn't fall right on turkey nesting and fawning season. Its not a matter of if you hit something, but how many
 
When do you guys mow your clover plots to reduce any unnecessary casualties? I was planning on mowing the plots in the next week or two so they had time to put on fresh growth before it got to hot.
 
When do you guys mow your clover plots to reduce any unnecessary casualties? I was planning on mowing the plots in the next week or two so they had time to put on fresh growth before it got to hot.
Ladino clover doesn't get high enough to hide much wildlife. I keep a sharp eye out when I mow it and I haven't hit anything yet. But I usually wait until mid June to mow the first time. Red clover gets tall enough to hide fawns and turkeys.
 
When do you guys mow your clover plots to reduce any unnecessary casualties? I was planning on mowing the plots in the next week or two so they had time to put on fresh growth before it got to hot.

Already too hot in Georgia to mow clover.
 
Ladino clover doesn't get high enough to hide much wildlife. I keep a sharp eye out when I mow it and I haven't hit anything yet. But I usually wait until mid June to mow the first time. Red clover gets tall enough to hide fawns and turkeys.

That is always my course of action too. If I have to mow clover, I usually walk around in it a little first, but I’ve never found fawns in white clover. I don’t mow any rights of way, trails, or the like until I know the fawns are big enough to escape and on top of that, I don’t mow early in the day. It’s too hot in Texas for fawns to stay out in open areas much later than 10:00 am. I ran over one years ago and that’s when I swore off mowing if I thought fawns were too little. I don’t even like to mow over a rabbit.
 
Nothing mowed here from May 20 until the end of June except the lawn and that gets walked over first. Fawns can be anywhere.
 
There is one place I have to mow every year this time of year, per the landowner. Up to this point I haven't hit a fawn yet, I hope that good fortune continues. I will be mowing it later this year than normal because of all the rain, and I'm hoping that helps.
 
Note my guidance above saying I stay out of fields till June 15. Well....I didn't follow my own advice. Saturday I was drilling buckwheat into a standing wheat field of about 10 acres. Killed 2 fawns , probably twins that couldn't have been more than a day or two old.
 
Note my guidance above saying I stay out of fields till June 15. Well....I didn't follow my own advice. Saturday I was drilling buckwheat into a standing wheat field of about 10 acres. Killed 2 fawns , probably twins that couldn't have been more than a day or two old.
It's always sad to hear that, I guess I have a soft spot in my heart for fawns. I would have thought that your fawns would be up and running around by now? Some of our fawns are running around already.
 
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