resources

1. First, if you have found a fawn all curled up and lying motionless, don’t assume it needs your help. Keep your distance and quickly evaluate the fawn’s condition. Fawns will naturally "freeze" when a predator approaches (Yes, you are a predator to them!). They will lay there motionless even while you drive a lawn mower right past them! So, that does not mean they need help – it’s just a normal response to danger. Keep adults, children, and especially pets away from the fawn as they only cause stress and stress can lead to shock and other ailments that can kill a young fawn! 
2. Second, if you don’t see blood or an obvious wound, and they look healthy – they probably are! Leave the fawn alone, and leave the area. Give mom a chance to come back for her baby. Check back on the fawn in the evening – just before dark, or early the next morning. The mother will distance herself from the fawn while she is out feeding. This is to attract predators away from her baby while she is generating the milk her baby needs. She will return to feed her fawn on a timetable based on the fawn’s growth and development - provided no predators are lingering around! It could be as much as eight to twelve hours! The last thing you want to do is kidnap a healthy fawn and deny them the love and nurturing only their mother can give them!
3. Third, fawns are born, very skinny, they look a bit like a bag of skin and bones. This does not mean they are starving, so please, Don’t try to feed them! We lose lots of fawns each year because well-meaning people try to feed them and they aspirate the milk because they aren’t fed correctly. If the fawn does not appear to be bleeding, or obviously injured, give the fawn 24 hours of seclusion. Keep children, pets, and adults away from the area to allow mom to return and care for her baby.
4. Finally, if the fawn looks like it’s in trouble, then before you do anything else, take a couple of pictures and do an assessment. 

Typical signs a fawn is in trouble:

• Sullen, lethargic, or laying on its side, instead of its belly, these are warning signs, but not necessarily the real deal. If a fawn exhibits two or more of these, then you’ve got a pretty good case.
• Sunken circles behind the eyes, or, if the fawn is older, curled ears can also be a sign of dehydration (this is not a sign for very young fawns), and lack of care from mom.
• If the fawn is crying continuously, approaching people, or even pets, trying to suckle, that’s not normal behavior and they probably need help.
• If the fawn has injuries, is bleeding, or has flies all over it and flystrike on its fur (flystrike is fly eggs – they look like little yellow cakes – these are clumps of eggs), then it needs immediate help.
• If a fawn’s mother has been killed (hit by a car, killed by dogs/coyotes, etc.), then it needs to be monitored. Sometimes another doe will take them. This is rare, but it's worth 24 hours to see.
• If a fawn is caught in a fence and needs rescuing, place a light blanket, or towel over its head to calm it down, before attempting to free it. Then, after it has been freed, take photos of any injuries, we often see girdling around limbs and feet. Usually, this is a death sentence, but your rehabber can tell from your pictures what the appropriate course of action should be.