Thread: Crook deer

Spent the weekend up the kaimais and a mate shot this hind. He said she was lying down on her back when he shot it and rolling around as if she was scratching an itch. All her lower legs were bruised up and all hair rubbed off and her neck had all the hair rubbed off. He took this photo of her liver and decided to ditch the meat rather then carry it all home only to find its buggered
Has anyone seen anything similar or have any clue what could've been wrong with here. We assumed it was some sort of blood poisoning from a wound gone bad my mate but couldn't find anything on the carcass to support that idea

I can't shed any light on that pic of the internals....but maybe she was getting rid of lose hair from winter coat molt?

yea,no liver in that pic,as above that is a pic of a spleen,diaphragm and gut bag

How could he tell it’s legs were bruised?


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skinny old girl like that wouldnt be good eating anyway.....she looks like on last legs before he took pity and finished her off...was she in fawn???

I'm not so sure she's old but she's had a tough winter.

She would have made good sausages providing that she had no septic wounds to her body.

As she was obviously skinny the best bet would have been to gut her completely and do some QC on the contents properly.

If liver/lungs/kidneys look all G she'd be hitching a ride back to town in the Mac Pac.

Old girl moulting?

yep she's molting man

Just another shitty Kaimai hind with fuck all to eat other than coming out on the farms.

Most animals I have shot in the kaimais were huge body and pretty fat but with shit antlers,even the hinds were huge.

Originally Posted by The bomb

Most animals I have shot in the kaimais were huge body and pretty fat but with shit antlers,even the hinds were huge.

That was helped by the escape x 2 times of WapX from when there was a deer meat works on the Tauranga-Hamilton road near the summit.

Originally Posted by The bomb

Most animals I have shot in the kaimais were huge body and pretty fat but with shit antlers,even the hinds were huge.

Fair comment, I think it depends where you are. As the other fella says, there was a good dose of WapX in some areas, as evidenced by the ones we used to take off the bush line up on the NE corner on private property from Woodlands Road, mid- to late-noughties. I’ve got a photo somewhere of the last big stag off of there, certainly not a “shit antlers” animal by any stretch.

Fellas often say “no deer in the north” but this has never been true. Low numbers for the most part, but occasionally the numbers swell. Because we’re a neighbour we get to hear and see a fair bit of what goes on. The ones I watch occasionally over the road from me when out hare shooting are runty as. Personally, looking at the quality of the ones I’ve seen post-drought, I wouldn’t bother. Just recently there’s been a whole bunch of really crappy hinds coming out of a couple of dairy farms off the south side of Waitawheta, they must have had pressure somewhere else and moved, so now they’ve had terminal pressure here.

Spleen looks OK, so she's not fighting an infection. Just looks old and not well fed.

As far as I know they haven't 1080d it but cant see the pesticide summary on doc site. Woops I should've taken a better look at his picture before posting it I'll have to ask him what its actual liver looked like. The bruising was under the skin he had skinned it before deciding to leave it. I was wondering if it had been trying to rub loose moult hair out but I've never seen one that had rubbed itself that raw before. She was a young one still had spots on it's back. Dont know if she was in fawn I dont think so ill ask my mate. Kind of wishing I had gone with him to check out the organs now

Originally Posted by piwakawaka

As far as I know they haven't 1080d it but cant see the pesticide summary on doc site. Woops I should've taken a better look at his picture before posting it I'll have to ask him what its actual liver looked like. The bruising was under the skin he had skinned it before deciding to leave it. I was wondering if it had been trying to rub loose moult hair out but I've never seen one that had rubbed itself that raw before. She was a young one still had spots on it's back. Dont know if she was in fawn I dont think so ill ask my mate. Kind of wishing I had gone with him to check out the organs now

Still with spots...maybe not done well since orphaned as a youngster.