Out stalking the last few days and I came across this. I smelt him long before I found him. Been there about 2 weeks I’m guessing. He’s been going round and round trying to free himself from the tussock and that’s where he stayed.
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Out stalking the last few days and I came across this. I smelt him long before I found him. Been there about 2 weeks I’m guessing. He’s been going round and round trying to free himself from the tussock and that’s where he stayed.
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Nature can be bloody cruel.
Over the years iv saved some fallow deer from the pampas or toitoi but have come across dead ones to I do think that theres probably a few they loss there life a year like that
I came across a red one time that had caught its hind leg between the two top fence wires as it was jumping over.
What a lousy way to go.
watched it happen..then hind manged to free itself,seen many that didnt make it freeQuote:
Originally Posted by Sh00ter
Not that uncommon sadly in country with old fences. Over the years I've found four or five deer that died with back legs caught in fences.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sh00ter
Winter 2006 saved this stags life at Waihora. There were marks all around him of his mates coming to see how he was getting on.
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Looks close to death. Is he bleeding from the eyes?Quote:
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The second one was still really warm, so I butchered and ate it.
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It’s always upsetting to come across this.
Not a nice way to go,lot of fallow get caught up in fences every year.
our son found red hind hooked up just like that,he euthanised her with .22lr and carried her home....her ladyship went off her rocker at him for shooting a deer,he let her rant n rave then produced his camera and showed video of hind BEFORE he shot her....shut her up right smartly.
Untangled quite a few Sika stags off the top wire of fences
They often limp very slowly away for 20 yrds and sit down
I retreat quietly and leave
Coming back the next day I have always found them dead where they sat down
The stress gets them
What remains with me is their fear, as you get close their eyes bulge and they tense and shake, then the instant you grab their antlers they let out a yell/roar. Eeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrr. Just in sheer terror at being touched
I hate seeing animals suffer in any way, any animal
it could also be the bad blood on far side of trapped limb.... blood poisoning sort of thing. why crush victims arent automatically whipped out from understuff if they have been there for any length of time..current best practise is,if you didnt see it happen yourself,its too late for quick extraction.
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We see lots hooked up in top wire also see lots of bucks with there antlers wound up in fences
It's not just deer that hook up in fences, l came across a young chamois once. Bloody horrible way to go.
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Reminds me I once freed a harrier hawk with a leg caught in an electric fence. It was remarkably docile while I worked to separate ths wires to get the leg out. Once it realised it was unrestrained it wasted no time flying off. I felt good about that one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mathias
A workmate years ago found a stag with a single loop of supplejack around a rear leg and managed to make a couple of pics to prove it. he had been up there a few weeks before and knew there was one in there.
he found it but not the way he would've liked. Much the same as the first pic, it was stretched right out and the ground really beaten up as he had been struggling to push forward as much as he could. just unlucky he had kept enough tension on it to keep it a loop.
The HeliRural Methven team freed a fallow buck the other week they saw tangled up in some tussock as they were flying along.
Poor bastards , also amazing how many eventually free themselves of the hooked up leg and heal up and survive with 3 legs
