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Will he SURVIVE?
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01/10/15 11:39 PM
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I have been watching this 12 point for 3 years now, now he shows up with a broke leg. Will this affect his horns for next year, better question will he SURVIVE until next years deer season? He has been a regular at the feeder every year until this year but he did start showing up the last two weeks every evening! What is yalls thoughts on if he will survive and be affected by this injury?
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01/11/15 12:25 AM
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Broken leg I would say no.
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01/11/15 12:28 AM
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Would not surprise me if he survives but will probably affect his rack next year if he does
lf the saying "Liar, Liar your pants on fire" were true Mainstream news might be fun to watch
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01/11/15 12:44 AM
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He will live. He probably will never look the same again. Quite a few years ago my son shot an Axis buck with messed up antlers. He kind of limped with his back leg. When we butchered him we found that some time in his life he broke the big bone in one of his back legs. The bone slid past the where it broke and grew back together. So one back leg was about 3" shorter than the other. Animals are tuff.
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01/11/15 12:45 AM
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Deer can do pretty well with three legs if nothing else goes wrong. They are more susceptible to predation but will often survive. I would count on it having an effect on the right side of his rack next year.
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01/11/15 12:57 AM
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I have a buck with a broken rear hoof around the ankle and it didn't affect his rack this year. Depends on where the break is would be my guess and how well he can avoid predators.
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01/11/15 01:45 AM
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He will or won't! That's a guarantee!
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Re: Will he SURVIVE?
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01/11/15 03:19 AM
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I'm out of kids haha he shot one yesterday I just realized this deer had a broke leg today! Owners grandson may come out this week I hope
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01/11/15 04:30 AM
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I'm out of kids haha he shot one yesterday I just realized this deer had a broke leg today! Owners grandson may come out this week I hope
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01/11/15 05:00 AM
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He will survive, but I would be willing to bet that his right antler will show some level of deformity in the coming years.
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01/11/15 05:01 AM
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He will survive, but I would be willing to bet that his right antler will show some level of deformity in the coming years. That could be a good thing but could swing the other way as well
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01/11/15 05:06 AM
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He will survive, but I would be willing to bet that his right antler will show some level of deformity in the coming years. That could be a good thing but could swing the other way as well Usually not a good thing from what I have seen through the years...
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01/11/15 02:59 PM
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X-rays showed it was broken? He may have had a run in with some barb wire. I have one with a similar injury. Watched him all season, leg healed up and he is going fine.
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01/11/15 04:18 PM
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Some will live some will die from that. If he catches fever in that leg he is done or a pack of coyotes beget on him he can't run and get away for long.
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01/11/15 04:20 PM
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he may very well heal up and go on being a good buck or he may go the other way .... its pretty difficult to say for sure and yes it may effect his antler growth as well or it may not ...time will tell I imagine
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01/11/15 08:41 PM
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Body condition on him looks extremely good to me. He's thick. Hope he makes it.
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01/11/15 09:21 PM
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if no infection sets in, and no predation, good chance
hold on Newt, we got a runaway
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Re: Will he SURVIVE?
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01/11/15 11:15 PM
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I hope this video plays ok. This is a four year old buck - we saw him last year at age three and his front left leg looked to either have been broken or dislocated. He survived to this year and is now age four. He is 170-180 inch deer that we think may hit 200 inches by the time he is age six. We have watched him fight and run does with no ill effects. So a broken leg does not mean they do not survive but I would think more chance of predators taking them down especially after the rut. By the way we nicknamed him Crip (short for crippled) [img]http://i1289.photobucket.com/albums/b512/tkennedy5353/Crip%20fight%201_zps4rudjlvc.mp4[/img]
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01/14/15 08:02 AM
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Holy *#@%!!! That sucker held his own with a bum leg?! Leg looks swollen.
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Re: Will he SURVIVE?
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01/14/15 11:32 AM
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Holy *#@%!!! That sucker held his own with a bum leg?! Leg looks swollen. yeah he has had this leg since the first time we saw him two years ago - have watched him fight, run, etc all with no ill effects.
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01/14/15 12:39 PM
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I had a deer break his back leg several years ago. It was so bad, he would take about 5 minutes to walk 20 yards across the field. I called the game warden and he wanted to put it down, but we decided to see what would happen. The next year I shot him and he was the biggest deer of my life. His antlers were perfectly normal. He didn't even have a limp. His bones fused into a lump mass the size of my fist.
If he can avoid the coyotes, he has a good chance.
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Re: Will he SURVIVE?
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#5541993
01/14/15 02:29 PM
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I hope this video plays ok. This is a four year old buck - we saw him last year at age three and his front left leg looked to either have been broken or dislocated. He survived to this year and is now age four. He is 170-180 inch deer that we think may hit 200 inches by the time he is age six. We have watched him fight and run does with no ill effects. So a broken leg does not mean they do not survive but I would think more chance of predators taking them down especially after the rut. By the way we nicknamed him Crip (short for crippled) [img]http://i1289.photobucket.com/albums/b512/tkennedy5353/Crip%20fight%201_zps4rudjlvc.mp4[/img] Cool video
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