Wounded deer or wasting disease?
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The photo is blurry so it's impossible to tell. I'd guess tumors as first choice.
Second choice, an injury involving wire or cable that encircled the neck and may be imbedded.
The deer looks too fat to be involved with CWD.
Second choice, an injury involving wire or cable that encircled the neck and may be imbedded.
The deer looks too fat to be involved with CWD.
AKElroy
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Looks like it was tangled in a barbed wire fence.
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Looks like cutaneous fibroma, essentially a benign tumor. Actually quite common.
Cocked & Locked
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Fibroma
I also am going with the Fibroma diagnosis. Fibroma is a skin disorder that supposedly has no negative impact on the edibility of the meat.
Fibroma is contagious from deer-to-deer if the tumors are oozing. A deer with this can come in contact with trees or brush rubbing the affected area. Next deer comes along and makes contact and can catch the fibroma.
I've seen/shot several deer with this. Below is an old Polaroid picture of one I shot years ago. It was the worst I have seen. Blind on the right side and almost blind with the left eye. The remainder of her body was probably 60% covered.
I also am going with the Fibroma diagnosis. Fibroma is a skin disorder that supposedly has no negative impact on the edibility of the meat.
Fibroma is contagious from deer-to-deer if the tumors are oozing. A deer with this can come in contact with trees or brush rubbing the affected area. Next deer comes along and makes contact and can catch the fibroma.
I've seen/shot several deer with this. Below is an old Polaroid picture of one I shot years ago. It was the worst I have seen. Blind on the right side and almost blind with the left eye. The remainder of her body was probably 60% covered.
ole farmerbuck
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When we had cattle, we would see that kind of stuff on them. We just called it warts.
Thanks guys!
And... damn.. that's pretty nasty, cocked & locked. They say it's edible...? But I don't know if I'd have the kojones to eat that.
Also, not too happy about the moultrie game cam. Just got it last week. Supposed to be 8 megapixel, but it takes blurry pictures. Thinking about sending it in for an exchange.
And... damn.. that's pretty nasty, cocked & locked. They say it's edible...? But I don't know if I'd have the kojones to eat that.
Also, not too happy about the moultrie game cam. Just got it last week. Supposed to be 8 megapixel, but it takes blurry pictures. Thinking about sending it in for an exchange.
Kernel
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Could be mange, it runs in cycles and is pretty common in wild animals.
Well, I've got tomorrow through Sunday off. Each day one of my game cams has scored a hit on 2 to 5 does. No bucks showed yet.
This is my second time hunting deer - but never taken one. So ... wish me luck! I have a two tags, one antlerless, one either way. Hoping to fill one this year. Last year I tried and failed to fill either. This year I got the game cams, hoping to get a better sense of timing. Last year I only went out at dawn & dusk - seems the deer know that.
They only come around my property during the day. Had two in my back yard the other night not 3 feet from the basement sliding door. Was letting the dogs out, and my husky about went THROUGH the sliding door to get at them. They just froze there. Didn't know what to do. If I'd opened the door... I might have just saved myself the trouble of shooting one.
Knowing my dog, though, he would have chased it halfway through the county playing with the thing without taking it down.
This is my second time hunting deer - but never taken one. So ... wish me luck! I have a two tags, one antlerless, one either way. Hoping to fill one this year. Last year I tried and failed to fill either. This year I got the game cams, hoping to get a better sense of timing. Last year I only went out at dawn & dusk - seems the deer know that.
They only come around my property during the day. Had two in my back yard the other night not 3 feet from the basement sliding door. Was letting the dogs out, and my husky about went THROUGH the sliding door to get at them. They just froze there. Didn't know what to do. If I'd opened the door... I might have just saved myself the trouble of shooting one.
Knowing my dog, though, he would have chased it halfway through the county playing with the thing without taking it down.
Cocked & Locked
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Or, had an uninvited guest or two come into the house.
lobo9er
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wow cocked & locked that is awful. May say its edible but doubtful I'd even touch it. And sure does look like whats in the game cam. You'd be doing it a favor before that really took hold of it by dispatching it. looks like it may even have a growth on its left leg on the inside.
Cocked & Locked
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Yes it is awful looking stuff. The pic of the one I posted had it really bad. I left it laying where it fell. Went back next morning with rubber gloves and rope. Drug it off to an area where we don't hunt and left it there. I bagged up the rope and gloves and tossed that into a dumpster.
The first I saw of this was in a national forest hunt in the late 1960's or early 1970's. All harvested deer were checked in on site. Some hanging had these tumors. Some of the tumors were baseball size hanging from short fleshy "cords" the diameter of ones finger.
The first I saw of this was in a national forest hunt in the late 1960's or early 1970's. All harvested deer were checked in on site. Some hanging had these tumors. Some of the tumors were baseball size hanging from short fleshy "cords" the diameter of ones finger.
Hometeached1
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Trent, hope you get one(not one like the one in Cocked & Locked's photo)! I have been trying to get a doe at least, for three years, I've seen 12 this year alone granted 7 of them where in town, thought about using my truck.
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Coyote3855
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I really wish I hadn't looked at the tumor picture. Can't unring that bell. I've seen deer in eastern Wyoming with wasting disease and I agree that the deer in the first picuture looks in too good condtion except for the neck.
Cocked & Locked
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It is a nasty picture, no doubt about it. The actual deer looked much worse. Once a year we have a Sportsmen Banquet at church. It is a guy thing and we bring wild critters we have cooked.
Friend of mine said I should make a venison casserole of sorts with mushrooms and a few chunks of red and yellow bell peppers...put a sign in front reading "Venison & Mushroom Casserole." And of course place the picture with it.
Friend of mine said I should make a venison casserole of sorts with mushrooms and a few chunks of red and yellow bell peppers...put a sign in front reading "Venison & Mushroom Casserole." And of course place the picture with it.
I tend to discount it being coyotes. 'Yotes circle and the one behind snaps at the hind legs to sever arteries. The deer bleeds out and goes down, THEN they move in. They won't attack from the front if they have numbers. (And BOY do they have numbers around here!!!)
A barbed wire fence is a possibility.
The head and shoulder wounds/marks could be from a mature buck; can't tell if this is a button buck or not from this angle.
A barbed wire fence is a possibility.
The head and shoulder wounds/marks could be from a mature buck; can't tell if this is a button buck or not from this angle.
Cocked & Locked
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It is Fibroma...tumors visible on the rear ham and it looks like some large ones between the front legs.
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scottishkat
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I don't know where you live but here in VA with our generous bag limits I would say it is time to sanitize the gene pool and cull that one from the herd. She looks real healthy other than that and will probably make great table fare.
Good Luck Shoot Straight
Good Luck Shoot Straight
I used my doe tag but I've got one anysex tag left, and can pick up more if I need. I don't think they ever run out of combo Archery tags at WalMart.
The deer are so thick here the herd needs culled, regardless of fibroma.
I regularly pass 40-50 deer each day on the first two miles on my drive to work, here in the hills. They're not people shy anymore, they just walk right through my yard like they own it, even though we have three big dogs that mark every square inch of it.
The deer are so thick here the herd needs culled, regardless of fibroma.
I regularly pass 40-50 deer each day on the first two miles on my drive to work, here in the hills. They're not people shy anymore, they just walk right through my yard like they own it, even though we have three big dogs that mark every square inch of it.
Cocked & Locked
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Still fibroma...nothing less and nothing more. It will continue to get worse on the deer. Soon she will be blind on her left side.
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