Deformed buck on trail cam?

[steepNdeep]

I had the trail cam out for over a month and didn't have much luck w/ the muleys. I did get a pic of this buck with a deformed right antler... go figure! :roll: I've read that this is usually caused by an injury on the opposite side.

In this pic it shows his gut which looks huge... Do you think he had a big day at Sizzler salad bar or what???
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4121/4916983158_fb74391a63_z.jpg


Maybe he saws it off before every hunting season... :wink: Here's another pic of him:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4114/4917787367_612a6f82e8_z.jpg

[Ozone]

In the first pic it looks like he is jumping sideways. Thats why his gut looks big.

[mark]

I think I got one of his sheds...stay out of my spots Steep! :twisted:

http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/../photos/data/500/medium/IMGA0109.JPG (http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/../photos/showphoto.php?photo=8749&size=big&cat=500&ppuser=501)

[snowhunter]

Remembering just sitting down on the tailgate to have lunch together with a novice hunter, originally from England, hunting for the second time in B.C., when a antlered white-tail walked slowly by at 25 yards with a large fawn. Well, I told him, "here is your buck". He grabbed his gun, and planted two shoots in the boiler room area.

It turned out to be an "one antlered doe"...

Could this, judging from the one deformed antler, be another "antlered doe", which also are pregnant ?

[bigshooter]

Looks like he has met a car, front legs are broken my guess.

[hunter1947]

That one right the healthy antler is a fairly nice size antler ,myself I think this deer has gotten old and can not burn the calories off at his old age and thats why he has a big gut on him :mrgreen:.

[steepNdeep]

I think I got one of his sheds...stay out of my spots Steep!
http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/../photos/data/500/medium/IMGA0109.JPG (http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/../photos/showphoto.php?photo=8749&size=big&cat=500&ppuser=501)

Mark, My deer would be bigger if I was in your spot! Of coarse you even have a trophy 'gimp' shed... 8)


Remembering just sitting down on the tailgate to have lunch together with a novice hunter, originally from England, hunting for the second time in B.C., when a antlered white-tail walked slowly by at 25 yards with a large fawn. Well, I told him, "here is your buck". He grabbed his gun, and planted two shoots in the boiler room area.

It turned out to be an "one antlered doe"... Could this, judging from the one deformed antler, be another "antlered doe", which also are pregnant ?

If I wanted to see a transvestite deer, I'd be hunting around Brambles' valley... :wink:



That one right the healthy antler is a fairly nice size antler ,myself I think this deer has gotten old and can not burn the calories off at his old age and thats why he has a big gut on him.

Yeah... I can relate to that! :mrgreen:

[GoatGuy]

Looks like everyone drinks the same water in the wk. :wink:

[steepNdeep]

Looks like everyone drinks the same water in the wk.

You don't like our 3 eyed trout? K-town makes up for it with pesticide perfume & shrivelled 'roid monkey nuts... lol

[igojuone]

Looks like he has met a car, front legs are broken my guess.

If he had two or even one broken leg he wouldn't last in the wild, he would be dinner for the coyotes the same day it happened.

On another note, what antler is deformed, the right you say? I'll be sure to ask future hunting partners a few quick IQ questions before we lock and load.

[steepNdeep]

On another note, what antler is deformed, the right you say? I'll be sure to ask future hunting partners a few quick IQ questions before we lock and load.

I was goin' by memory... it is his right side, lookin' from the front... his driver's side.

On your note speakin' of IQ, hopefully your partners are smart enough to read directions, so they can explain things to you... :wink:

If someone can tell me how to load a photo on here correctly, I would appreciate it.

[Blktail]

My understanding is that the leg bone must be broken to cause antler malformation. If it is the front leg the antler on the opposite side malforms. If it is a rear leg the antler on the same side malforms. I have seen this effect on at least 6 occaisions, both in town and in the bush. I have shot 2 myself.

This effect was studied extensively for cancer research as the scientists were trying to determine how antler growth is regulated. (Antlers being the fastest growing mammalian tissue after some forms of cancer.)

The only other explaination I know of is damage in early velvet, but it does look like the broken leg syndrome to me.

[CanuckShooter]

Damage to the testicles will have the same affect....deformed antlers....the bulging gut could be a puss filled cyst, or a tumor..uggh!!:cry:

[steepNdeep]

My understanding is that the leg bone must be broken to cause antler malformation. If it is the front leg the antler on the opposite side malforms. If it is a rear leg the antler on the same side malforms. I have seen this effect on at least 6 occaisions, both in town and in the bush. I have shot 2 myself.

This effect was studied extensively for cancer research as the scientists were trying to determine how antler growth is regulated. (Antlers being the fastest growing mammalian tissue after some forms of cancer.)

The only other explaination I know of is damage in early velvet, but it does look like the broken leg syndrome to me.

Interesting info Blktail... I haven't seen many gimped deer and never paid much attention to their legs. Do these look normal?
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4116/4921287645_a955acc3b9_z.jpg

[Blktail]

I can't tell if the deer has or had a broken bone.

One deer I shot had it's rear hoof missing, but had a hard pad of scar tissue with a sharp bone shard poking through. It was an old wound and well heeled. The deer could walk and stot without any observable problems. The antler on the same side was deformed.

That was Texada Island where there are no predators.

Had a deer in our N. Saanich Neighbourhood with a broken leg that formed a pseudo joint. The bones never knit. He had a deformed antler on the same side for the 3 or 4 years he was around. He was pretty crippled up for the 1st year, but he was fast after that.