What's wrong with this buck

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Need a better pic. What appears wrong with it? It's head looks a little funky or something but the pic is so small I can't tell for sure what you're pointing to.

Odd angle or a birth defect?

 

Yep, a larger pic would help us out a lot.

 

I agree, larger would be better to tell, bu this head looks really wide for some reason

 

Sorry about that. I'm trying to do this from my phone. I may have to blow it up with my computer tomorrow. Something is wrong with the eye on the left. I will get a better photo in the morning.

Thanks for looking at it.



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Looks like he's blind in his right eye. Probably caught a tine while sparing or fighting with another buck.

 

I second that, you can also see that his left horn is stunted, which is normal for injuries on the opposite side of his body.

 

I would also agree that he hurt it fighting. Heck of a body thought..keep an eye on him (pun intended)

 

Bad eye injury for sure, no telling what from specifically. Obviously lots of eye injuries are from tines and fighting but I've seen people shoot them in the eye with .22 cal rifles before and seen head injuries from vehicular impacts. Seems to be doing fair in spite of it.

 

Thanks for the input. I was leaning towards that but wasn't for sure.

 

When you start paying attention it is amazing how many bucks with age behind them appear to lose eye sight in an eye...either from fighting or infection.

 

I've got two does that are blind in one eye, one on the ks side and one on the mo side. I have no idea what happened to them, sticks in the eye?

I was wrapping a chain around a gate the other day and a dried vine was wrapped up in the chain and came around and smacked me endways in the right eye. It scratched my eye badly, I had to go to the Dr and they put a soft contact lens over it that I wore for a couple days. By the third day the contact was removed and it was about 90% but I tell you what that was effin painful until she deadened it and put that lens over it. As large as a deer's eyes are, they could easily get a stick in one running through the brush.

 

For sure! Not ruling out a hoof to the eye either...I've seen some hoof fights by does that I swear could slick open a head if connected...the flailing front hoof stomp is impressive when they do it.

 

We have video of 'hoof stomps' from our days of living in the back 40. Impressive is correct - those hoofs hit with a wallop!!!

 

Blind stud! That's old bruiser with some BIG bases

 

I will try to keep an eye on him and let everyone know how he turns out.

 

Now that's funny..... pun intended. lol

Stay on his right side

 

Yep, he got poked with something that's for sure! Will be cool to see what he turns into antler wise!