Complicated isn’t it? I would sum it up as: really big deer (American elk, moose) are bull and cow; big deer (red) are stag (cerf) and hind (biche); small deer (fallow, roe) are buck and doe. The only red and fallow deer you will see here are captive (farms or deer parks) although they would once have roamed freely as wild animals. Roe deer are common in the wild (too common, in fact, and need culling). Hart is an old fashioned word for stag that you won’t really find used these days.
PS have you ever been to witness the rut? Several of the estates in the area advertise it as an event. I’ve never been but it would be interesting.
Conrad
December 27th, 2013 at 7:46 pm
Hi
This is the link to our version of chevreuil – which we call white tail deer. (western Canada). http://www.flickr.com/photos/cbaarch/sets/72157632378373062/
What we have discovered is that they will not eat any plants that produce a purple/violet flower and evergreens with sharp foliage such as Juniper.
Cheers
conrad
Rosemary Kneipp
December 28th, 2013 at 9:38 am
Thank you Conrad. I can’t wait to actually get a photo of our chevreuil. Yours look quite big. Interesting about the purple/violet flowers and evergreens with sharp foliage. Preserves the cyclamens and little purple orchids.
[…] and neighbour Françoise Courtet this morning from her bedroom window with her iPhone. The deer was then joined by two others. Since they are very timorous it’s difficult to get any […]
Stephen Young
February 7th, 2016 at 6:41 pm
I don’t know what part of France you live in but ,here in Le Brenne we have thousands of Red Deer roaming wild. Many of the shooting estates have fenced in hunting reserves but these are many hectares in area!
Rosemary Kneipp
February 7th, 2016 at 6:50 pm
We live in the Loire Valley in Blois, right next to the big Sologne hunting grounds. I don’t if we get Red Deer.
D
November 12th, 2016 at 1:52 am
What is the female equivalent of faon?
Rosemary Kneipp
November 13th, 2016 at 8:58 pm
Like all words for young animals, there is only one word (so no female) – like chiot, chaton, poulain, etc.
D
November 13th, 2016 at 11:56 pm
So if I were to refer to a female puppy, for example, how would I show it was female?
Rosemary Kneipp
November 14th, 2016 at 10:06 am
You would say “un chiot femelle” (female is only for animals, by the way, and very derogatory if it’s a human being). For a girl baby, you’d say une petite fille.
Red deer’s are the most magnificent animal of the french forests. I’m not a pro type hunter but last summer I luckily hunt a foan, and I was very happy.
Thanks for sharing your post.
Per Wichmand
May 20th, 2021 at 2:13 pm
is it true that a buck is called brocard after passing his one year birthday?
This means that all bucks are mentioned brocard. Is it so or not.
Rosemary Kneipp
May 20th, 2021 at 7:40 pm
Yes but it is a technical term and rarely used by the general public.
Per Wichmand
May 20th, 2021 at 7:47 pm
thank you for your kind answer to brocard.
However, im following you tubes hunting films from all over the world.
In many of the french you will hear brocard repedly
Complicated isn’t it? I would sum it up as: really big deer (American elk, moose) are bull and cow; big deer (red) are stag (cerf) and hind (biche); small deer (fallow, roe) are buck and doe. The only red and fallow deer you will see here are captive (farms or deer parks) although they would once have roamed freely as wild animals. Roe deer are common in the wild (too common, in fact, and need culling). Hart is an old fashioned word for stag that you won’t really find used these days.
PS have you ever been to witness the rut? Several of the estates in the area advertise it as an event. I’ve never been but it would be interesting.
Hi
This is the link to our version of chevreuil – which we call white tail deer. (western Canada). http://www.flickr.com/photos/cbaarch/sets/72157632378373062/
What we have discovered is that they will not eat any plants that produce a purple/violet flower and evergreens with sharp foliage such as Juniper.
Cheers
conrad
Thank you Conrad. I can’t wait to actually get a photo of our chevreuil. Yours look quite big. Interesting about the purple/violet flowers and evergreens with sharp foliage. Preserves the cyclamens and little purple orchids.
[…] Chambord, being a hunting lodge, boasts a very large number of antlers! […]
[…] and neighbour Françoise Courtet this morning from her bedroom window with her iPhone. The deer was then joined by two others. Since they are very timorous it’s difficult to get any […]
I don’t know what part of France you live in but ,here in Le Brenne we have thousands of Red Deer roaming wild. Many of the shooting estates have fenced in hunting reserves but these are many hectares in area!
We live in the Loire Valley in Blois, right next to the big Sologne hunting grounds. I don’t if we get Red Deer.
What is the female equivalent of faon?
Like all words for young animals, there is only one word (so no female) – like chiot, chaton, poulain, etc.
So if I were to refer to a female puppy, for example, how would I show it was female?
You would say “un chiot femelle” (female is only for animals, by the way, and very derogatory if it’s a human being). For a girl baby, you’d say une petite fille.
Red deer’s are the most magnificent animal of the french forests. I’m not a pro type hunter but last summer I luckily hunt a foan, and I was very happy.
Thanks for sharing your post.
is it true that a buck is called brocard after passing his one year birthday?
This means that all bucks are mentioned brocard. Is it so or not.
Yes but it is a technical term and rarely used by the general public.
thank you for your kind answer to brocard.
However, im following you tubes hunting films from all over the world.
In many of the french you will hear brocard repedly
Ah yes, among hunters you definitely will.