Bleed out sheds?

[Woodchuck]

Too strange. I watched two bulls fight a few years back and the loser had his antler ripped off his head, not broke off close to his head, ripped off. Not a single drop of any fluid out of it. That was in sept. 

[IBspoiled]

That's cool that you got to see something like that.  I have another video loading that I will post soon.  I dumped bleach on the antlers to kill the smell and clean them up.  Mini worms/maggots came crawling out it's pretty gross.  I thought you guys would all enjoy it though.   

[IBspoiled]

Here is the worm video.  I just poured a little bleach over the chewed end to help it clean out and these buggers came crawling out.   

[Woodchuck]

That has to be a wetside thing. I am no biologist but have never seen anything like it. Yuck

[Tines up]

Ya the stench they give off is pretty horrid. Worse than the streaks I get in my man panties. I usually hang them broken tines down from the south side of my shed. From the eves so they keep dry and get the sun for a week or 2. After that the stench goes away. I've had to wash my pack  3 times just to get smell out. Not too mention the carpet in my pick up. 

[Old Man Yager]

I thought when they stop growing and the velvet is shed, they no longer have blood flowing to them? Guess that ain't correct!

[Tines up]

Not sure if it's blood or just water soaked in through broken tines. It just sits in there and rots. I'm no scholar but that's my guess. It gets a little damp to say the least around these parts.

[C-Money]

Very good info. I have never found any stinky sheds, but I will pay better attention now. I'm not sure about a blood flow issue in the antlers post velvet.  Those maggots must be feeding on moist antler tissue, so the bone must be decomposing. Anything I have ever came in contact with that is decomposing stinks, guess antler should be no different.

[Bonedar208]

haha aww man. If you spend a lot of time picking bones....eventually you will be blessed (more like cursed) to pick up a horn that's got the drips. Stinky an nasty.  Ive mostly seen it with older antlers. Its pretty disgusting when you take your pack off for a break and realize its been dripping rotten horn goo all over your pack and legs.

[TopOfTheFoodChain]

Picked up a small elk shed yesterday. Nastiest smelling thing I ever picked up!

[MtnMuley]

Picked up a small elk shed yesterday. Nastiest smelling thing I ever picked up!

Post a pic if you can.  I'm thinking all these "blood dripping" "stinky sheds" are basically rotting out sheds in very moist climates.  Even in climates that aren't super moist, I think the sheds that are doing it there as well are in a moisture rich, shaded area or partially buried in the elements.  I can see where maybe moisture seeps in through a broken tine, but even that would be marginal.  Also, I bet most of these sheds aren't fresh browns, and as far as truly "bleeding" out, I still don't know if I can buy that.........

[erk444]

I found a big fresh 6 point rosie shed with a broken eye guard on the coast that leaked a huge puddle of bloody goo in my sisters bath tub. It couldn't have been on the ground for more than a day or two. It had to have blood in it while he still carried it

[Ridge Roamer]

same - I've picked up a few stinkies in Montana & also Cascades. Almost tossed them but eventually they dry out.

[buckcanyonlodge]

I watched a mulie buck drop an antler. I picked it up and put it in a bucket ( tines up ) just to see if they bleed out as stated by some. Not a drop of blood has come out of the antler in 3 weeks.

[hunter399]

Im not sure on this ,But i think elk hold on to there horns alot longer than most deer.Might have alot more blood in there horns,maybe thats why they stay on there heads longer just guessing though.