** Ok HNI "Armchair Wildlife Biologists"...How old is THIS deer? **
The only clue you get though are these pictures..............
I have also sent these same pictures off to a true expert in the field of aging whitetail deer by their teeth and am confident that the answer I get from him will be an accurate one.
When I get the results from him I will post what he has to say, probably later today.
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Honestly I haven't looked at too many teeth or jaws on a deer. Never really cared to I guess. I've aged bear by looking at there teeth and have gotten fairly close a number of times but with a deer I'd be guessing. I'll take a shot In the dark and say this doe Is In that 4.5 to 5.5 year old range.[8D] From now on I plan on paying closer attention to this.
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I'm going to say 4.5. The fifth tooth still hase edges on it, and the dentine in the middle of the 4th and 5th teethlooks to still be thinner than the enamel.
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Hard to tell...I'm going to say a 2.5 as it appears there are a lot of "sharp" edges left on those teeth. Shot him out of a tobacco foodplot it appears!
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Hard to tell...I'm going to say a 2.5 as it appears there are a lot of "sharp" edges left on those teeth. Shot him out of a tobacco foodplot it appears!
Well this armchair biologist says 2.5 MAYBE 3.5....if not he's been eating soup all of his life....those teeth are sharp....as for the off color, Ive yet to see a deer that didnt have that black color all over their teeth.
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** Ok HNI "Armchair Wildlife Biologists"...How old is THIS deer? **
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** Ok HNI "Armchair Wildlife Biologists"...How old is THIS deer? **
