Deformed Deer

[deerdogs 394]

Had a walk out this morning with the keeper up on a local estate, came across a young roe buck with a bad leg. Looked like it had been broken and then healed up and grown the wrong way. (see pictures as i can't explain it) Anyone else got any pictures of any deformities like this that they have come across or any other explanations as to the cause of this?

[Hydropotesinermis 724]

I think that you are right that It has been broken or dislocated at the joint and then set in the wrong position, perhaps he has been hung up in a stock fence or something.

[seprim 32]

Ouch ! the ability of deer to carry on with sometimes horrific injuries is astonishing..

thanks for sharing

 

Andrew

[RossM 7,979]

Is it's hoof growing into its arse?

[Rake aboot 4,929]

Was the bone grafted at the break to make a solid joint ? or was the leg still bendable ?

 

Looks nasty that.

[deerdogs 394]

it was solid, wouldn't bend at all. if you look in the 2nd photo you can see where the hair has been growing around the leg.

[Rake aboot 4,929]

Thought so. You can see where the broken end has grafted to the upper leg bone, You have to wonder how it stayed in position long enough to graft,, and how painfull that must have been.

[martin 332]

If you still have access to it try to get the leg and clean it off it would be great to see it cleaned.Here is a pelvis from a Buck I shot this year it looks like it was maybe injured as a very young Deer cos it grew all skewiff although it had no problem moving and ran a short way after the shot went home,I find these things very interesting...........

 

 

Martin

[deerdogs 394]

I'll see what i can do for you martin, thanks for your pictures, i can see what you mean, also an interesting topic for me

[The one 8,402]

makes you wonder how it survived car accidents are the most likely as the roe population keeps growing

[Rake aboot 4,929]

I would love to see that leg boiled off if you can bud.

[fat man 4,740]

Just saturday gone by i was invited down to a mates for a days shooting on the pheasents and a couple of hours stalking in the afternoon.He told me he had shot a prickett earlier in the season and when he was aiming at it to take the shot he noticed that there was something amiss with its head.He shot it and when he walked to where it fell its lower jaw was almost completely gone and the smell of the deer was rank.He reckoned someone had tried a head shot and got it wrong and took its lower jaw off in the process,bet it was in some destress.

[sussex 5,776]

I've shot several over the years were the bone has fused together after RTA's . It never ceases to amaze me how they manage to recover from quite serious damage .

[foxdropper 17,092]

My guess is after a trauma like that the deer lie down in shock for a time allowing the bone to fuse in weird positions .

[beast 1,884]

shot a fallow a few years ago which had lost a front foot at the ankle. the wound was completely healed and grown over with scar tissue and the beast was in fine condition. my guess was a snare injury. also, a friend shot a roe doe which had lost its whole scalp including the ears, again completely healed just smooth bare skin like a skull cap. reckon she must have been run across by some farm machinery (forager perhaps?) when she was a kid.