Bald spots!!??
11-20-2008, 11:39 AM
#31
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: SE Ohio
Posts: 2,531
RE: Bald spots!!??
ORIGINAL: BobCo19-65
Please elaborate. Why do deer farm bucks have bald spots?
ORIGINAL: OHbowhntr
DEER FARMS!!!! Wild deer don't do that!!!!
ORIGINAL: GregH
Over the years, on a lot of hunting shows, I've noticed that a lot of the mature bucks are running around with patches of hair missing from the top of their backs and sides. Could this be from rubbing their antlers there while using a licking branch?
I have personally never seen a buck with hair missing like that while hunting. All of the ones I've shot had all of their hair!
Over the years, on a lot of hunting shows, I've noticed that a lot of the mature bucks are running around with patches of hair missing from the top of their backs and sides. Could this be from rubbing their antlers there while using a licking branch?
I have personally never seen a buck with hair missing like that while hunting. All of the ones I've shot had all of their hair!
Please elaborate. Why do deer farm bucks have bald spots?
Now go to a local deer farms, and I can find you a handful of deer with bald spots on them. Maybe it's the vaccinations they have to take, rubbing on the fences, unhealthy, or whatever, but that's the only place I've seen them in my area. And we all know that several of these "PRO" hunters hunt in "Deer Farms." Hell Ted Nugent owns the biggest on in the state of Michigan don't he???
11-20-2008, 11:42 AM
#32
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Michigan/Ohio
Posts: 11,682
RE: Bald spots!!??
ORIGINAL: OHbowhntr
Unhealthy??? I've never seen any of the bucks in my area with bald spots, at least not real noticeable ones, and I've done a lot of jacklighting through the years that I'd have thought I'd have seen at least one. Now go to a local deer farms, and I can find you a handful of deer with bald spots on them. Maybe it's the vaccinations they have to take, rubbing on the fences, unhealthy, or whatever, but that's the only place I've seen them in my area.
And we all know that several of these "PRO" hunters hunt in "Deer Farms." Hell Ted Nugent owns the biggest on in the state of Michigan don't he???
ORIGINAL: BobCo19-65
Please elaborate. Why do deer farm bucks have bald spots?
ORIGINAL: OHbowhntr
DEER FARMS!!!! Wild deer don't do that!!!!
ORIGINAL: GregH
Over the years, on a lot of hunting shows, I've noticed that a lot of the mature bucks are running around with patches of hair missing from the top of their backs and sides. Could this be from rubbing their antlers there while using a licking branch?
I have personally never seen a buck with hair missing like that while hunting. All of the ones I've shot had all of their hair!
Over the years, on a lot of hunting shows, I've noticed that a lot of the mature bucks are running around with patches of hair missing from the top of their backs and sides. Could this be from rubbing their antlers there while using a licking branch?
I have personally never seen a buck with hair missing like that while hunting. All of the ones I've shot had all of their hair!
Please elaborate. Why do deer farm bucks have bald spots?
Now go to a local deer farms, and I can find you a handful of deer with bald spots on them. Maybe it's the vaccinations they have to take, rubbing on the fences, unhealthy, or whatever, but that's the only place I've seen them in my area. And we all know that several of these "PRO" hunters hunt in "Deer Farms." Hell Ted Nugent owns the biggest on in the state of Michigan don't he???
Shocker[:-]Sunrise acers(ted's place)is about 900 acers. The Sanctuary is 12,000
11-20-2008, 11:50 AM
#34
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Oct 1998
Location: Hughesville, PA USA
Posts: 18,322
RE: Bald spots!!??
ORIGINAL: MOTOWNHONKEY
Good theories but you only see it after the antlers are in full display each year. I never seen a doe with a bald back.
I seen it with me own eyes mates!
Good theories but you only see it after the antlers are in full display each year. I never seen a doe with a bald back.
I seen it with me own eyes mates!
Like MOHO, you never see immature bucks (small antlers) or does with the bald spots. Only a good set of antlers can reach that spot.
11-20-2008, 02:38 PM
#37
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Hillsdale,IN
Posts: 552
RE: Bald spots!!??
ORIGINAL: HuntingEd
Most of the bald spots I've seen come from going under a fence, I guess as they get older they dont mind rubbing against the fence...
Either that or it could be scars from fighting that just prevent hair from growing back...
Most of the bald spots I've seen come from going under a fence, I guess as they get older they dont mind rubbing against the fence...
Either that or it could be scars from fighting that just prevent hair from growing back...
