bowbender
Junior Hunter
IF YOU WAIT THEY WILL COME
Posts: 33
|
Post by bowbender on Jan 8, 2007 11:03:09 GMT -5
Saturday of the 2 day guy hunt are hunting group did some drives. BEST deer of the day was a buddies 14 pointer. But on one if the drives i killed a doe and for some reason she had elf feet. They were cured up. I will get a pic but do anyone of you know what it comes from. I have heard alot of different things so far, any other opinions?
|
|
|
|
Post by THE DEER HUNTER on Jan 8, 2007 11:35:54 GMT -5
I have seen this once before. I think that it has to do with the habitat the animal lives in, at least that's what I heard. Living in a swamp, the deer does not have enough abrasion to its hooves to wear them down, and they continue to grow.
|
|
|
|
Post by dhextremecb on Jan 8, 2007 14:24:33 GMT -5
I think she was just trying to win the sexy doe contest.......
|
|
bowbender
Junior Hunter
IF YOU WAIT THEY WILL COME
Posts: 33
|
Post by bowbender on Jan 8, 2007 21:04:57 GMT -5
i think you are right ceeb i think she just came from the nail place.
|
|
|
|
Post by Hardcorehunter on Jan 8, 2007 21:26:14 GMT -5
Goats hooves will do the same thing if they don't have hard surfaces to walk on. Gotta trim my goats all the time. Swamp deer typically have that overgrowth. Pretty cool though.
|
|
bowbender
Junior Hunter
IF YOU WAIT THEY WILL COME
Posts: 33
|
Post by bowbender on Jan 9, 2007 18:42:34 GMT -5
the thing is the deer did not live in the swamp
|
|
|
|
Post by dhextremecb on Jan 9, 2007 18:44:16 GMT -5
I'm thinking that it's what Mrs. Buckmasta said Zimmy, She wasn't getting up enough to feed and stuff, not walking around enough, that's the only logical thing to assume since there aren't any swamps nearby
|
|
|
|
Post by davep on Jan 9, 2007 20:39:28 GMT -5
My brother killed a decent buck over in Kent some years ago,that had the same thing.Some folks from U of MD were at the check station,doing some kind of research (I THINK Lymes disease),and said that they had seen a few hooves like that.It was symptomatic of some disease.I just can't remember what!  |
|
|
|
Post by THE DEER HUNTER on Jan 10, 2007 10:51:34 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by THE DEER HUNTER on Jan 17, 2007 9:39:41 GMT -5
Here is a pic I took about 2 years ago. The hooves of an elf footed deer taken in Charles County by a guy I know. They were pretty wild looking to me & I just found the pic, so here it is... Not the greatest because I took it with my phone.  |
|
