Bald spots!!??
11-20-2008, 08:32 AM
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Location: Racine, Wisconsin
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Bald spots!!??
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!
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!
11-20-2008, 08:36 AM
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Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: SE Ohio
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RE: Bald spots!!??
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!
11-20-2008, 08:37 AM
#5
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Eastern Shore MD
Posts: 2,487
RE: Bald spots!!??
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...
Either that or it could be scars from fighting that just prevent hair from growing back...
11-20-2008, 08:38 AM
#7
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Northwest Missouri
Posts: 830
RE: Bald spots!!??
I shot a mature 156" class buck two years ago with bald spots on him. He was full of ticks and caused the hair to slip. Subsequentlythere was a bald spot right where I aim to put one through his boiler room!
11-20-2008, 08:47 AM
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RE: 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?
