Fawn with Antlers??
07-15-2007, 07:04 AM
#13
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location:
Posts: 2,621
RE: Fawn with Antlers??
Because it takes a whitetail deer several months to just grow a "rack"
Second, a fawn loses its spots at about 5 or 6 months.
That fawn would have to be in the velvet stage while still in the womb.
Antlers while in the velvet stage are actually full of blood and tissue. They damage very easily.
How would the mother give birth to a fawn with a rack? It would have to be in the velvet stage and the antlers would really get damaged while it was coming out.
It just takes too long to grow a 6 pt. rack whether in the womb or after birth. it just isn't possible to have a rack before spots fade away.
It must have been a young fallow deer.
Second, a fawn loses its spots at about 5 or 6 months.
That fawn would have to be in the velvet stage while still in the womb.
Antlers while in the velvet stage are actually full of blood and tissue. They damage very easily.
How would the mother give birth to a fawn with a rack? It would have to be in the velvet stage and the antlers would really get damaged while it was coming out.
It just takes too long to grow a 6 pt. rack whether in the womb or after birth. it just isn't possible to have a rack before spots fade away.
It must have been a young fallow deer.
07-15-2007, 08:20 AM
#15
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Hillsdale,IN
Posts: 552
RE: Fawn with Antlers??
ORIGINAL: eversboys
Guys,
If they are finding 600lb catfish in Asia and 40ft squid off the coast of Australia then why wouldnt it be possible to see a fawn with a six point rack?
Guys,
If they are finding 600lb catfish in Asia and 40ft squid off the coast of Australia then why wouldnt it be possible to see a fawn with a six point rack?
07-15-2007, 11:58 PM
#18
Spike
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Wellsburg, West Virginia
Posts: 77
RE: Fawn with Antlers??
My first deer I shot with a bow in 1995 was a 1 1/2 year old 6 point. It was average weight and rack size for our yearling bucks. Once we got it field dressed and home we hung it up and noticed it still had it's white spots all the way down both sides of its spine like a fawn. They were so faint that we didn't even notice them in the woods but once we got a good look at them they were plain as day. Maybe he saw a late born fawn from last year that is undersized and is still showing its spots like mine was. I don't know. But he didn't come out the womb with antlers.
07-16-2007, 04:17 AM
#19
Typical Buck
Join Date: May 2007
Location: South Carolina
Posts: 957
RE: Fawn with Antlers??
ORIGINAL: eversboys
When it comes to nature, anything is possible.
When it comes to nature, anything is possible.
As for this certain situation. Doesn't have buck's male parts have to drop before he can grow antlers? I would assume that if his parts weren't producing enough testorone(sp) that the rack wouldn't grow.
Then again. When it comes to nature, anything is possible.