No ears

  • red_lab
    Winsted,MN
    Posts: 121
    #196985

    This deer was shot buy a friend. Look at ears. They are more than half gone. It is wild, not pen raised. Any idea why the ears are gone?

    norseman
    FAIRMONT MN
    Posts: 559
    #75715

    Froze off?

    kooty
    Keymaster
    1 hour 15 mins to the Pond
    Posts: 18101
    #75716

    Quote:


    Froze off?


    My guess also.

    red_lab
    Winsted,MN
    Posts: 121
    #75721

    I knew it could happen to cattle but never heard of it in deer.

    reever_1
    Rochester Minnesota
    Posts: 100
    #75723

    Most likely hanging around some crabby Does

    lick
    Posts: 6443
    #75727

    Ive seen bucks ears all tore up from fighting

    But never almost gone

    Thanks for sharing

    protourbaits
    stillwater, MN
    Posts: 2466
    #75731

    strange….im w/ gut on this one, fighting is the first thing that comes to mind. But you would think that IF it is due to fighting, there would be more evidence such as broken tines.

    Jon Stevens
    Northfield, Wi
    Posts: 1242
    #75737

    My guess is bugs……Hey HAPPY B-DAY!!

    lick
    Posts: 6443
    #75754

    I can hear this…

    “How wide was he?”

    “Im not sure but he was outside his ears !”

    huntinfool
    Posts: 1
    #75790

    The taxid. I took him to said in his 30+ yrs of doing mounts, he has never seen this before. We both figure when he was a young lad he must have been laying in a field and a mower when over the top of him. When the noise got loud he perked his ears up. Both cuts are the same and clean cuts. I have seen ears split from fighting and frozen ears, these are both too clean of cuts. Either way its gonna look great on the wall, 13pt non-typ dressed 200lbs on the scale at Cabin Fever.

    lick
    Posts: 6443
    #75791

    Congrats on a dandy buck huntinfool

    And welcome to iDo

    Lets hear the story

    big_g
    Isle, MN
    Posts: 22548
    #75794

    Crabby Doe’s.. Welcome Huntinfool

    kooty
    Keymaster
    1 hour 15 mins to the Pond
    Posts: 18101
    #75795

    What??

    red_lab
    Winsted,MN
    Posts: 121
    #75800

    Welcome to the darkside Mark

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