Doe's with horns

mattmcdonald · July 16, 2010, 05:59:00 AM

last year i did some research on does with horns its a horomone imbalance and they never loose there velvet and normaly a very weak rack and its very rare to get one also i learned that a hen can grow a beard kinda the same thing very rare

Izzy · July 16, 2010, 11:34:00 AM

1 in 12,000 is what Ive researched.Pretty cool.

bawana bowman · July 16, 2010, 12:44:00 PM

Shot one in Tyler County West Virginia in 1980. Had an 11" spike on the left and 12 3/4" spike on the right side.

Twenty minutes after I shot it my Dad killed a 12 point buck. It was archery season, but he shot his with his off duty Colt 38 detective special. Claimed he would never have hit it with the bow. Long story but he was probably right, even though the deer was only 12 yards away when he shot it.

mattmcdonald · July 16, 2010, 04:51:00 PM

i bet someone could get bass pro or cabelas to pay some good cash for a full body mount

bill langer · July 16, 2010, 08:47:00 PM

Maddog are you sure???

Let's see some pics...

wapitimike1 · July 17, 2010, 06:16:00 AM

Billy it looks the same as that date you took to the movies before you met your wife. You left all of us guessing with that!!!! Is She or is He!

Tom Phillips · July 17, 2010, 08:22:00 AM

Nice going Mikey, I have a photo clipping of standard 8 pointer shot in my hometown in the 60's that had NO running gear underneath.

lpcjon2 · July 17, 2010, 02:18:00 PM

Biggie are all the deer in Georgia Hermaphrodites?

And what tag would you use on that type of deer.

Izzy · July 17, 2010, 02:34:00 PM

Ouchhhh Bill!!!! You owe Mike a Hex Head to at least a shin for that one.What movie was it?

Chris O · July 17, 2010, 03:53:00 PM

Thats pretty cool. So would you tag that as a doe or buck? I think in NY it would be considered a buck.

Elkchaser · July 18, 2010, 01:04:00 AM

In Montana, it would be tagged as a buck. The rack is the only real way to tell sex at the time of the shot.

wapitimike1 · July 18, 2010, 05:24:00 AM

I tagged it as a doe. The buttons/horns weren't long enough to go the other route. They were like 3/4" long, strange deer.

Marty · July 18, 2010, 09:12:00 AM

Mike- hope you used a full grown broadhead this time!

Hopewell Tom · July 18, 2010, 03:39:00 PM

In the late 1980's a friend killed a fork horn doe on our land in Nova Scotia. Not in velvet though. I don't know how many times he looked from the "top" to the "bottom", total confusion!

wapitimike1 · July 18, 2010, 06:14:00 PM

Magnus Buzzcut!!!

I'm learnen!!

Hookeye · July 18, 2010, 08:56:00 PM

Old coworker shot a 5 pt doe years ago. Biologist then said such animals "happen" about 1 in every 5000.

Dunno if that ratio is still valid.

vermonster13 · July 18, 2010, 09:40:00 PM

Tags here read antlered or anterless. When I was a kid my next door neighbors dad shot a 16" spike that was a doe.

Gene Wensel · July 18, 2010, 10:28:00 PM

I read a biologists paper many years ago that stated it is physically impossible for an antlered doe to shed velvet. All those "antlered does" with no velvet are in fact bucks that grew their testicles elsewhere in their body. Multiple specimens had been dissected only to discover testicles up inside the body cavity, in the guts or wherever. Testicles can abnormally grow almost anywhere, just like teeth.

Marty · July 19, 2010, 09:28:00 AM

Is that what those bumps are down below- teeth? I'll have to show my dentist- maybe she can help.

Don Stokes · July 19, 2010, 09:48:00 AM

My sister had a chihuahua that only had one testicle. He was all male, based on repeat stud business. When the man with the females pulled into the yard, he would jump in his car as soon as the door opened. He threatened to attack everyone else.

On a good day, I can remember what it was like...