Tbyrnzy82

How do you determine the age of a deer? Doe and buck?

Thanks...

farmcntry

The more I hunt the more I can estimate the age of the deer by looking at the hair, horns, body, etc. They older guys I hunt with can look at the teeth and be within half a year of the age. I don't know how they do that yet.

25lieb

until age 3 deer will gain a set of molars (so i was told), so you can look back there and see if there is 1 2 or 3 molars, then after that, well, you could go by the wear of the teeth, or just instincts i guess.

MmmmElk

Cut 'em in half and count the rings.

ampahunter

This 'could be' done from their teeth.
At 1/2 year the white-tail deer have only 4 cheek teeth. One &1/2 to 2 years they have six cheek teeth, the 3rd from the front has cups, and is well worn.
Two & 1/2 ~ 3&1/2 all six of their cheek teeth will show signs of varying degrees of wear, the 3rd tooth shows widening of brown dentine lines.
As they develop in age the wear of the teeth also progresses and brown dentine lines are evident on more teeth. The teeth also wear closer to their gum line.
Just one of the factors of judging white tailed deer. Their appearances, the droop of the skin on their necks, the widening of their chest, the hair also starts greying on the face and head, their antler display hits a peak, then reduces in size as they age--are all factors that can be used to roughly determine the age on the white tail.

Tbyrnzy82

I did my research and found very good info on the whitetail segment of this website every one should check it out...

http://www.whitetaildeer.com/howto/age/

Thanks for all teh imput,

Tim

Huntm Up

i heard this that two years ago a man shot a doe who was aged to be 13 years old(i don't know 100% that it is true or not so don't yell at me saying this is impossible cause i do not know). They determined the age by the teeth and how warn the hooves are. Aparently this doe hooves where warn almost all the way down. Amzing a deer lived that long.

fuzzjocky2

I shot a 210 # 5point the biologist that looked at it said it was 7 1/2 yrs old or older she said after that age they are hard to age because the teeth are basically gone

6ptsika

Even the best biologists trained at aging deer can be less than 50% when the deer's past 3.5 years old. Even the high tech methods are far fom accurate.