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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 4343909" data-attributes="member: 5412">Deer have the ability to get a lot of their water needs from early morning dew on the food they eat and their diet. Woody browse is 45% water that they can absorb. It's not the optimal situation for them, but they can survive.The does need water access to get enough to feed fawns when nursing. All that being said, when we had the big drought for a couple of years, we found fawn skulls everywhere and set out watering stations as the creek was dry that ran through the area.We keep a bird bath and a pan under it full for the little fawns that can't reach the bird bath to drink from. The danged turkey want to hook the little pan with their feet and tip it over before getting on top of the bird bath to get a drink. The bath holds about three gallons and needs new water every other day, so that is my job currently. When we are on the road, they still survive no matter what my wife thinks getting their water naturally. Deer live in the deserts with little to no pools of water. What does that tell you about how they get water?</blockquote>