have you ever seen a deer with unusual feature?
 

my parents feed the deer every winter( i know all the arguements, so do they). this year through binoculars i noticed one deer has a growth over her eye, like a tumor. any thoughts on this? have you seen anything abnormal on a deer before? she looks healthy, by the way.

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Haven't seen that type of thing except in pix.

I got a pic last summer of a barnical buck or possibly antlered doe. It is weird. No beams, just lots of very short bumps(points?) It was in fresh velvet.

I had hoped to see the deer during bow season but no luck. It was the one I wanted since it was so unusual and rare.

This pic was taken in early July. Any ideas?

Good luck!

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Animals get a lot of diseases, scars & warts.

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i watched a hole bunch of bucks and does one year and one doe had no tail it could not of been the cold when she was born b/c her ears were good

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Here are a couple of pics of a piebald I got in the late season this year.

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I haven't really seen any wierd deer in the wild but there used to be an albino doe that lived on some public hunting ground about 30 miles from here. It was pretty famous...especially since it is illegal to shoot them here in Iowa. After it died the town closest to there did a full body mount and I have seen that. It is all white and the eyes, nose, and hooves are pink.

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Here's a weird rack...
http://www.advanceddesignsinc.com/im...%20Rack061.jpg

I don't know if it was the result of an injury or defective genes.

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My guess is its a injury on his left side of the body. But it is just MY guess.

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Don't you mean an injury on the buck's right side?

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Seen a deer one time with claw marks from the neck down on both sides, and another with a big collar around its neck, but nothing really out of the ordinary.

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a hunter near us got an antlered doe this year.. that was weird.

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heres a weird rack from schuylkill county

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I saw one once that had the dumbest hunter in history hot on his hoofs . Oh wait , that was me . Never mind ... :D

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SchuylkillOutdoorsman,
I have to say that is probably the ugliest rack I have ever seen in my entire life:D. I think I would have kicked the horns off and stuck a doe tag on it. My uncle shot one like that a couple of years ago and we made him hang it upside down and as far away from ours as possible:D

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LOL

bearklr, my uncle got that at his shop it has 28 points and your right very UGLY.

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Seen a doe with a orange collar on its neck! while turkey hunting, she was not affrad at all. she did not run when i started walking closer! i got very close to this deer she had some scares on her hipe like where she was injured some time back and had a name on her collar that sead anderson #104 on it? i think it was someones pet that got out of it`s pin, But after that i never seen or heard about it again. I guess who ever it belong to they found it and put it back in it`s pin.

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i have noticed a small growth like a parasite everyonce in a while by one of the legs. it is in the fat. i dunno wut it is from though. im still here so i dont think it effects the meat

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This past summer I got within 30 yards of a doe with a young fawn and the doe had a cyst or something like a cyst dangling off her neck. It was smaller than a tennis ball but bigger than a golf ball. It was dark and appeared to have some hair on it. it dangled very loosely. She seemed every bit healthy and was even a good size. Unfortunately she wasn't on a property we hunt because I would love to keep an eye out for her. I don't know what it was...any ideas?

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Back in 2000 I was hunting the Lauderdale County WMA in Northwest Alabama and my buddy happened to get a Deer that morning, and as we left and headed for the Ranger/Checkout Station another hunter pulled up with what looked like a nice 10 Pointer, as we approached his trailer we saw the Ugliest Deer you could have laid eyes on, this Deer had patches of wart like growths from one end of its body to the other, I mean I don't think you could have laid a ruller on this animal anywhere without it touching a patch of these growths I had never seen anything like it before or since, I asked the Rangers about it and their answer was, it is a wart like virus that seems to be very popular in Deer and they assured me it in noway was dangerous to humans nor would it affect the quality of the meat. Well I'm sorry, "dangerous to humans- affect the meat" I couldn't care less I would have killed it just to cull it from the heard, but their ain't no way on Gods green earth I would have even considered eating that deer. I only wish I had a camera at the time we saw it, now I never go hunting without a camera in my pack, Ya know for those "Kodak moments" we always seem to miss out on.