odd deer

[loco_cacahuate]

I have this button buck coming into one of my blinds. Last year I had a doe fawn coming in that looked just like this. I'm thinking a birth defect or genetics.

 

[Gaff]

looks like some type of "hair lip". deffinately weird.

[Ian johnson]

take it out becasue of bad genetics

[Izzy]

Looks like a nutritional deficit, minerals maybe.Or inbreeding.

[Ol'school]

I'm with Ian, I would put that one in the freezer before he got old enough to pass it on, and start looking for his momma.

[Little Tree]

I would say inbreeding, I would try to take it out of the herd. Good Luck

[Swamp Pygmy]

yup. got an extra tag?

[Doc Nock]

Usually nature takes care of defects that limit an animal's ability to cope and live healthy...

Ain't any of them drug runners down there from across the Rio that lost a stash?  ...he looks like someone snorting that evil white powder a long time!

Kinda gives ya the willies... looks like a toothless ole geeze, not a young button buck!  :(

[loco_cacahuate]

I've posted this on a Texas bowhunting forum and one guy said he's seen a doe like this on his lease. Another said he's seen a buck at a taxidermist like it.
I've never seen him or the one from last year around any particular doe, both have been loners.
He's entertaining to watch, I've seen him lay his ears back and run does off.
lol I havent seen any drug runners thru here lately.

[Fletcher]

I think there's a stud camel in your woodlot.

[TomMcDonald]

That deer looks cool.

I don't think it needs exterminated because it is different
It's obviously not emaciated and IS growing so the defect isn't really having an effect on its survival.

[Jerry Jeffer]

Face looks like a camel.

[Swamp Pygmy]

LOL @ flethcer. thats pretty funny.

Tom McDonald- I didn't mean because it's in pain. It's probably fine. It's just cull for the genetic potential.

Just for instance piebalds does. They are really neat looking and other than the color there is essentially no physical defect with them. But they carry higher rates of various problems that deer suffer from, and so do their progeny, whether colored piebald or not. So you try to take them out.

This fella may not have a term necessarily for what is the matter with him, but I wouldn't want him breeding is all I'm saying.

[loco_cacahuate]

There is a wildlife biologist (sp) that comes into our business every so often, I'm gonna ask him about this next time he comes in.

[jacobsladder]

eating too much cactus..lol.....

heres a doe that hangs out at the neighbors...


 

[GingivitisKahn]

Cool - that's the deer version of the dreaded 'dorkfish'.

[TomMcDonald]

Originally posted by Swamp Pygmy:
LOL @ flethcer. thats pretty funny.

Tom McDonald- I didn't mean because it's in pain. It's probably fine. It's just cull for the genetic potential.

Just for instance piebalds does. They are really neat looking and other than the color there is essentially no physical defect with them. But they carry higher rates of various problems that deer suffer from, and so do their progeny, whether colored piebald or not. So you try to take them out.

This fella may not have a term necessarily for what is the matter with him, but I wouldn't want him breeding is all I'm saying.

I understand.
I just don't see why we there should be a need to shoot it if you weren't gonna shoot it otherwise because you don't know if it's a defect.

[jacobsladder]

yep..that piebald raised twins at least two summers in a row.....

[RonnieB]

I like piebalds, would like to have a quiver made from one's hide.  Never seen adeer in person, but saw a piebald Malard duck a couple days ago.  Will get pictures if anyone is interested...

[Mike Mecredy]

That's called a birth control nose.