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Exotic Meat Market offers farm-raised Fallow Deer Meat in the USA.

Fallow Deer are raised in Argentina, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia for meat.

Fallow Deer are amongst the prettiest Deer seen in Europe. The Fallow Deer has a range of coat colors, from red, black, and brown to pure white. Adult Fallow Deer have the same appearance as fawns, with white spots covering their dark chestnut coats. The bucks have impressive, beautiful, flattened antlers. Fallow Deer have powerful legs, despite them being relatively short, and so are extremely fast. The shortness of their legs makes for a fascinating body design overall.

Fallow Deer lives in various climates, from cool to humid, to warm and dry areas. They prefer a combination of different vegetation types, especially old broad-leaf deciduous forests, with grassy areas here and there, but also in mixed forests, subalpine vegetation, broad-leaf forests, grasslands, woodlands, scrublands, low mountains, and savanna.

Fallow Deer is a social species, roaming into females with fawns in one group and males in another group. Males and females only come together during the breeding season. Throughout the year, they may mix freely and socialize in groups in open areas. These Deer are active nocturnally, with peak activity periods at dusk and dawn. They tend to lead a shy, withdrawn life in the forests. Deer are more alert in open areas and smaller groups, with the females being usually more alert than the males, especially when their fawns are present.

Fallow Deer are herbivores eating a variety of vegetation, primarily grasses, browse, and mast. Other items may be herbs, dwarf shrubs, buds, leaves, shoots, and bark.

Fallow Deer are polygynous, where an adult male mates with many females in one mating season. Males fight violently and often during the mating season, though injuries are rare. Mating takes place from September to January. Females usually bear a single fawn, following a gestation period that lasts 33 to 35 weeks. Mothers do not rejoin the herd straight after birth. They hide their fawn in dense vegetation and return during the day only to nurse it (for every 4 hours during the first four months). The mother begins weaning when her fawn is about 20 days old, continuing until about seven months old. When the fawn is 3 to 4 weeks old, mother and fawn again join a herd of mothers and their young. After about one year, the fawns are independent. Males are sexually mature at 17 months old and females at about 16 months old.