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Should any person or stray dog turn up she is 

 always ready to fight in its defence, and this she is 

 very capable of doing by getting up on her hind 

 legs and striking with her fore feet. I have on 

 several occasions seen a hind kill dogs in this way, 

 and a friend of mine was once severely punished 

 by a hind's fore feet when attempting to earmark 

 a calf. The calves are born spotted and remain 

 so until the coat changes in the Autumn. 



Red Deer when in anger have a way of giving 

 warning by grinding their teeth, which can be 

 plainly heard for some distance. 



The shifting of coat, shedding of horns, rutting 

 and breeding seasons are each similar to that in 

 the Fallow Deer only all a little earlier. 



The first growth of horn starts in the Spring, 

 when the calf is about or a little more than a year 

 old. One single spike from twelve to eighteen 

 inches is grown the first year, and this increases in 

 size and points each year until the stag is eight 

 years old. 



The life of a Red Deer is longer than that of a 

 Fallow Deer. A stag is at his best from eight to 

 twelve years of age, for after twelve years he 

 deteriorates in horn and body. Hinds live much 

 longer, and I have known several well over twenty 

 years of age, and have heard of some over thirty. 



The weight of Red Deer, like Fallow Deer, varies 

 according to richness of pasture. A good average 



