Has anyone heard a deer cough?

O.K. maybe that’s not what it was but this evening I had a doe and her 2 fawns right in front of me eating in my plot. Light was fading fast and I was hoping they would move on so I wouldn’t spook them getting down. On 3 occasions I heard what sounded like a cough comming from one of her fawns. At this point it was too dark to watch what the fawn was doing when it was making these noises. Has anyone ever heard a deer make a coughing sound as I’ve never heard this in 25 years of hunting?

Interesting! I don’t think I’ve heard them cough but I have heard them sneeze! I guess I would imagine it’s not that uncommon for them to cough though!

I was going to say the same thing. I have never heard a cough but heard sneezes before. When they sneeze it sounds just like a dog.

Ditto!

Maybe she was a smoker? Those things will ruin your lungs ya know..

i have heard a deer cough!! Sounds EXACTLY like a human cough but the one i kept hearing only did it once, but kept coughing a few more times. We knew there was a giant 8 pointer that had a cough and it was obvious when he was coming in your direction!! Could hear the flem and everything

Yep, I’d hafta say she was hacking then.

yep ive heard em cough… about 2 weeks ago while filmin my buddy huntin a soybean field we had a doe 34yds from us eatin the beans and she kept coughin… yep got it on film too… it was the first time i had ever heard it and when my dad saw the tape he told me thats what she was doin and that more then likly she had some of the bean stems hung… but hell if i know she could of took a couple drags off my cig that i had not 5 min b4 she showed up…

Hey countryboy welcome to the site, tell us whats its like for deer hunting in southern Illinois and how many deer there are.

Thanks! its alot of excitment around this time of the yr for us bow hunters… and there is a very large number of deer around here… i went tonight in the rain and seen 13 no shooter bucks though