I like you have found many carcasses over the years and can only imagine the suffering.
Any got any ideas of the best combination of wire to help prevent this happening?
fTo each their own, but my personal view is that deer found in fences should be shot, unless you saw it get caught, which I have twice and released both. The state of that leg in the first photo beggers belief as to why you would release it....... obviously trying to release it made it worse and more bloody, but if it had got away with the leg in that condition because of trying to free it it would have got infected and probably died a worse death.
If it had survived and I do see a lot of them up here, it becomes top of the cull plan before it ends up getting stuck with the other leg in a fence because it can no longer jump as well.
I don't see it as an easy cull animal when you shoot it in a fence, but more that you are ending the suffering not prolonging it by thinking you are doing the right thing.
DB if u can come up with a way to keep stock in the fields and let deer jump them safely, post away. With modern cattle breds u do need the 2 strands of barb in most cases, even then most cattle could clear them if they really wanted too.
ever thought that the fences around arable fields are used to keep people and deer out.
Yes good point, like you I shoot 2-3 a year with whole legs or half legs that are missing, always wondered how they had lost it, for some reason it seems to be more does than bucks, and I had always put it down to shooting because a doe losing a leg in the winter has a better chance of recovery because of the lack of flies during the winter months.I shot a buck fawn this morning that had lost one of its rear legs just below the joint - as a result of being stuck in fencing im sure. I normally shoot 2-3 per year with this injury. Its just another important reason for good deer management on the ground, and is a good conversation to have with people who are unsure about having a deer manager on their land!