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The aim of our study was to evaluate some haematological and biochemical indicators in the blood of chemically immobilized pregnant and non-pregnant free ranging red and fallow deer. In both species, a marked reduction of red blood cell count, haemoglobin concentration and haematocrit, as well as higher concentration of triacylglyceride, cholesterol, creatinine and alanine aminotransferase activity were detected in pregnant animals than in non-pregnant females. Significant differences in the studied variables were determined between the two species. The red deer hinds had higher haemoglobin, haematocrit, mean cell volume and mean cell haemoglobin values, higher counts of neutrophils, lymphocytes and total leukocytes, glucose, albumin, triacylglyceride and urea concentrations than fallow deer females. Fallow deer does had higher alanine aminotransferase activity and cholesterol concentration than red deer hinds. Pregnant hinds had lower lymphocyte counts than non-pregnant ones, while pregnant does had more than twice lymphocyte counts than non-pregnant animals. Moreover, pregnant fallow deer does had rather high eosinophile counts.