This guy is doing this to himself. Gerald (his place)says this guy's testosterone is way high. Be dangerous to be to close at this point of this buck's life.

That's CRAZY!!!  I'm not sure I'd want to shoot that deer with an arrow.  He looks like he's got roid rage and his neck is gonna explode!  Great pics!!

Ken

Let me know if you need someone to come "take care of him" I sure would like to give it my best shot!!

Shoot him and he looks like he might come up the tree after ya    

I found my aiming spot on him.

Thats crazy  :eek:

Nice deer... odd behavior.

I am thinking it is some sort of skin parasite or other irritation causing him to scratch it a whole bunch.

Thanks for sharing the pics.

thought at first it was a healed over graze wound from a bullet, or a fight

I had a dog that developed skin cancer and did the exact same thing...scratched, pawed, gnawed, and rubbed her hide raw on her sides just like that.  

My guess is definately a parasite or disease causing massive skin irritation causing the deer to do that.

Like lpcjon said, easy to pick a spot lol

i'm no expert, but it appears to be a disease of some kind. just out of fear of it spreading i'd shoot that deer asap. that's just me though.

That looks a lot like mange to me but I don't know if deer can get it. Our coyotes here in Alberta get it lots in the winter. It's the same as Scabies in humans-a parasite. I've had it before and I think I did the same thing to myself. Lol!

I don't know if I'd be comfortable eating that deer, but then again I don't know how that condition affects the meat.

I think I heard someone on here killed a deer with a similar yet lesser condition and he said it was due to the deer scratching at ticks?

I would not want to run into the owl that did that!  :eek:

   :eek:    :confused:

Seed ticks, or lice would be my first gess.

I had a choc lab a few years back and one day he came home with bare spots on either side like this deer. His was down to the meat but not bloody. When we took him to our vet he did a series of blood tests and determined he had an inactive thyroid. After about a year of experimentation with dosages of the thyroid meds we got the problem remedied.
 Being that both of these woulds are in the same location on either side reminds me of Hershey's problem. The inactive thyroid caused the skin in these areas to sluff off. These wounds healed over in time and Hershey lived a long good life after.