Thread: Stags and Bucks 2023

Originally Posted by Sideshow

@Barry the hunter bucks are coming out of winter he is moulting. They’re a small animal. This one has just finished stripping. The rut is lib July to mid August. So at the moment they’re trying to put on weight.
Yes also animal numbers very high. But I’ve knocked a big hole in that. Fallow are the main problem.
This one had a broken hind leg. Healed up and was feeding fine until I put a stop to it.
There’s a bigger one on my ground so he stays to breed all others get the cropped as they make a mess of the new trees.

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Here’s the fallow problem one of 3 herds on the surrounding property’s.
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We actually had to stop hunting last month as the game dealer was not taking any more as he was full up.
With everyone trying to finish their hind culls on the shooting grounds that they could not get to while game bird shooting was still going on.
Hope that answers your questions.

Amazing what they can survive and then go onto thrive. I shot a half decent fallow buck last night, light was fading and he was 350yds out in some scrubby stuff and I thought he looked like he was limping which I put down to been fighting, however when we got over to him it turned out he had three legs! One back leg gone at the hock, he was pretty old probably 8ish and was in great condition, probably lost his leg to a run in with a fence years back, managed to get side by side to him so he's hanging whole in a mates chiller at the moment will get some photos before we skin and butcher him.
Now I've shot a 3 legged Chamois buck and a three legged Fallow, I'm on a roll!