Sick Buck Picture?
08-05-2008, 11:24 AM
#11
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: New Hampshire
Posts: 3,406
RE: Sick Buck Picture?
ORIGINAL: kry226
I think I am going to break ranks (as usual) and say that this deer may simply be beginning the transition from the summer coat to the winter coat. While he may be a couple of weeks early, we should start seeing more of this in the coming weeks and months.
I think I am going to break ranks (as usual) and say that this deer may simply be beginning the transition from the summer coat to the winter coat. While he may be a couple of weeks early, we should start seeing more of this in the coming weeks and months.
08-05-2008, 02:14 PM
#13
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Georgia
Posts: 164
RE: Sick Buck Picture?
ORIGINAL: Siman08/OH
Winter coat coming in?
Winter coat coming in?
08-05-2008, 02:28 PM
#14
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: N.W. Wisconsin
Posts: 308
RE: Sick Buck Picture?
Not the best quality picture, but it sure looks to me like a deer that is beginning to shed 1 coat for another.
Up here in Wisconsin, I see deer change from Summer red to fall brown all the time. For a time they can appear pretty ugly, but it is nothing to worrry about.
Up here in Wisconsin, I see deer change from Summer red to fall brown all the time. For a time they can appear pretty ugly, but it is nothing to worrry about.
08-05-2008, 03:05 PM
#15
Fork Horn
Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 122
RE: Sick Buck Picture?
ORIGINAL: kry226
I think I am going to break ranks (as usual) and say that this deer may simply be beginning the transition from the summer coat to the winter coat. While he may be a couple of weeks early, we should start seeing more of this in the coming weeks and months.
I think I am going to break ranks (as usual) and say that this deer may simply be beginning the transition from the summer coat to the winter coat. While he may be a couple of weeks early, we should start seeing more of this in the coming weeks and months.
08-05-2008, 06:55 PM
#18
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Ponce de Leon Florida USA
Posts: 10,079
RE: Sick Buck Picture?
Back is too straight to be an old deer. I would guess shedding summer coat and old scars, could have been an almost caught by coyotes or something, or some kind of skin disease.
