Definitely not frozen! Look at the firs photo the spine is bent down and it actually looks like the deer is pulling a way a bit, it's not like that in the next couple of photos, does a frozen solid deer's spine bend like that.....Nope! If it were frozen do you think the neck would move back and forth from picture to picture......no!. Also it doesn't look like those guys are freezing their a$$e$off at all if it was cold enough to freez a wounded deer. I think some of you should stick to deer huntinginstead of detective work, thats for sure.

I think this deer was hit by a car and is practically brain dead or just not all there at all. I think they are holding on to those antlers sooo tight because the deer is moving around a bit on them. Poor buck.....they should have put down right when they found him.....who knows how long they stood around and took pictures and laughed it off.

I think frozen is being misunderstood for rigormortis??

The legs are in the same position in every photo.The deer appears to be leaning against the rail while 2 guys are holding deer in erect postion for pics.Makes sense to me

That deer looks to have suffered. That rack is so disproportionate to his body its pathetic. That deer better be fake or dead. If that deer was alive at the time of photography, then SHAME on you guys for holding and posing with a suffering deer like some white trash hics. I sure as hell would not let a bunch of co-workers of mine stand around on the back dock, on the clock I"m sure, just to get a picture of some suffering deer. I really hope that he's dead inthat picture. As was said before; where is the bullet hole if he is supposed to be dead?...Or was that cop the worst shot on the force. CWD maybe? He should have been put out of his misery a while ago! That deer would have to be paralyzed or 1/2 out in order to let a bunch of loud humans hold him up by the antlers like that. Especially a bunch of guys like, " lemme hoed em main...I wanna pikchure tooooo". Give me a freakin break!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! POOR DEER!!!!!!

Listen guys and gals. I live and work in Iowa. They found this deer laying out by one of our plants. They said he was weak and couldn't get up. They got him some water and got him up took some pics and called the DNR. If you look at the pics he is standing in many dif positions, and not just his head. When I read down through these replys I couldn't believe the stupidity I was witnessing. I am not going to single anyone out, but It frightens me to think some of you are in the woods(maybe the same woods as me) with GUNS!!!!!!! So for all you Shurlock Holmes Call the Iowa DNR, and ask them if the Deer pics that you saw on the internet of a big buck behind John Deere's PEC plant in Waterlooare real. Here is the officers no. His name isMike. 319-240-5034. This was not a reply to everyone. Some of you had very good comments. The kindI was looking for.In the future I will just keep this stuff to myself.

I hope this was a joke, but if it wasn't they are saftey glasses.

I hear ya....I wonder if that cop knows that you put his name and number on the internet for the whole world to see..?

Been around this site for a while. Haven't posted much but there are plenty of jackasses here. Don't let them get to you. There are plenty of good folks as well.

He isn't a cop, he is a DNR agent. Go to Iowa DNR website. All the officers no.s are there for anyone to call.

I agree in some aspect with your reply CS. The whole posing with an injured or weak animal is kind of ****ty. This is a sister plant across town. I wasn't there. They had done all that they could by making a phone call to the DNR. They couldn't shoot the deer themselves. You can't even carry personal knives on John Deere property. Deer suffer much worse fates every year by idiot hunters who misplace an arrow or shot from a gun, never recovering the animal and leave it to fight through the winter wounded. Any bow hunter here can tell you of the limping crippled deer from the gun season that you see or hear of when back in the woods. It can happen to any hunter, but anyone who has been around hunting for any time at all know that moron who wounds two deer or so every year. Think hard I bet you know one.

acting pretty much like a "downer cattle" in livestock circles, the picture part is pretty sad, i would have just left the animal where it was until it could be put down. but at a plant like that if someone had said i'll go get my gun, that person would have been fired quicker than the deer could have been dispatched. keep posting willyd5, the deer is sick but alive, i would have really perferred the paticipants left him alone[&o], some folks just don't know any betterand that is a shame.

BTW, i have had goats do the same way, they cannot stand up on their own, but you can get them up, give them antibiotics, and hope they make it, some do, some don't, i have even held them up and as soon as you let go they get wobbly, they actually appear that their head is the heaviest part of their body and they will just fall out, i have alsoused hot-stick to get cows back up. but when an animal gets as sick as that deer is it probably has no idea of what is going on. jm2cfwiw