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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: fishnfur on September 03, 2018, 09:26:26 AM

Title: What do you think?
Post by: fishnfur on September 03, 2018, 09:26:26 AM: I've got a guess what caused the gash on this fawn's shoulder (living in rural Mason Co.). What do you all think?
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Post by: ian_padron on September 03, 2018, 09:43:14 AM: Meow
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Post by: Timberstalker on September 03, 2018, 09:45:26 AM: One scratch. Could be a fence.
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Post by: PolarBear on September 03, 2018, 09:48:11 AM: Barbed wire
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Post by: PlateauNDN on September 03, 2018, 10:01:34 AM: Mountain man :dunno:
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Post by: JimmyHoffa on September 03, 2018, 10:06:17 AM: chupacabra
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Post by: Dan-o on September 03, 2018, 10:53:30 AM: Rotator cuff surgery
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Post by: pd on September 03, 2018, 11:12:32 AM: Follow my reasoning here.

First, the scar tissue is completely healed, which means the wound is at least a month or two old. Second, that fawn is now just six months old. Taken together, this would have occurred when the fawn was half her current size. Had the would been caused by any type of predator, there is no way the fawn would have had the strength to fight or run. Thus, the wound must have been caused by barbed wire or some other object. I will guess the fawn tried to crawl under a fence, and her coat got caught on a sharp edge.

Now stop worrying about yearlings. September 3rd already, go fill your tag!
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Post by: WapitiTalk1 on September 03, 2018, 11:30:31 AM: Quote from: Dan-o on September 03, 2018, 10:53:30 AM
Rotator cuff surgery
:chuckle:
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Post by: fishnfur on September 03, 2018, 01:56:18 PM: I think Polar Bear and PD figured this out correctly. I couldn't see a cat getting just a single claw in that hide, and if it had, it would have unzipped that fawn's shoulder so that it would never heal well or quickly. Only a shallow wound would heal that well - something around a quarter of an inch or so. Mom probably groomed the heck out of that wound as it healed.
Assuming it stays local once it is mature, it should be easy to follow that animal's growth etc. for the next several years. Thanks for playing!
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Post by: PolarBear on September 03, 2018, 03:13:58 PM: I've seen a ton of these scars on cattle as well as deer. I have some pretty mean barbed wire. :chuckle:
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Post by: nwwanderer on September 03, 2018, 03:34:32 PM: Saw a scar like that on an elk, black powder ball. I am with you, fence or similar
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Post by: Boss .300 winmag on September 03, 2018, 05:11:19 PM: Quote from: pd on September 03, 2018, 11:12:32 AM
Follow my reasoning here.

First, the scar tissue is completely healed, which means the wound is at least a month or two old. Second, that fawn is now just six months old. Taken together, this would have occurred when the fawn was half her current size. Had the would been caused by any type of predator, there is no way the fawn would have had the strength to fight or run. Thus, the wound must have been caused by barbed wire or some other object. I will guess the fawn tried to crawl under a fence, and her coat got caught on a sharp edge.

Now stop worrying about yearlings. September 3rd already, go fill your tag!

I’ve had goats with the same type wound from wire.👍

Just rub some triple antibiotic cream on it, just buffs right out.😉
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Post by: ctwiggs1 on September 05, 2018, 08:17:29 AM: Quote from: pd on September 03, 2018, 11:12:32 AM
Had the would been caused by any type of predator, there is no way the fawn would have had the strength to fight or run.

:yeah:
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Post by: Lapua338 on September 05, 2018, 08:39:09 AM: sharp broken branch scrape along trunk of tree
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Post by: Gentrys on September 10, 2018, 09:51:09 PM: Sasquach
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Post by: fishnfur on September 10, 2018, 11:21:39 PM: That was my original guess before the "inside the box" thinkers came up with barbed wire. :chuckle:
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Post by: PolarBear on September 11, 2018, 09:19:41 AM: Chalupacabra
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Post by: fishnfur on September 12, 2018, 12:12:25 AM: Yup! They're killers!