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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: Rob on November 27, 2024, 02:27:37 PM

Title: Some kind of Hoof disease on this whitetail doe?
Post by: Rob on November 27, 2024, 02:27:37 PM: This doe has been part of the local herd around the house.

Her hooves seem exceptionally long.

Does this look normal, or do folks think she has some kind of hoof disease?
Title: Re: Some kind of Hoof disease on this whitetail doe?
Post by: Mtnwalker on November 27, 2024, 02:32:00 PM: Foundering maybe?
Title: Re: Some kind of Hoof disease on this whitetail doe?
Post by: Buck Rub Jr on November 27, 2024, 03:04:31 PM: Wdfw sent me a big thing of hoof diseases when I was talking to them about the hooves on my blacktail this year. This could be what that doe has maybe?
Title: Re: Some kind of Hoof disease on this whitetail doe?
Post by: Rob on November 27, 2024, 04:00:28 PM: Looks like the early stages of that for sure. I think laminitis is also called foundering. So good calls by everyone.