After months of plittering around,watching roe deer trying to find a good cull beast,I was watching two yearling does who ran off as if chasing something they had seen in the next field. Bad luck for me,I thought,but then I hadn't seen the old doe watching from the edge of the bordering woodland. She came on the the field & started feeding off the crop by kneeling down to eat. As this was to be my first deer I wanted a standing broadside shot & had to wait a while for her to get up.
Shot her with the 7mil,got to the carcase & found her hooves to be in bad order. The inside half of each front hoof was normal,however the outside extended by about another 2 times the whole length,about 5cms/2" over the tip of the normal half.The extended part was relatively thin,& curved round as would a ewe's horn.
Is this lame deer likely to have got into this state due to poor management in the past? Or is there likely to be another reason for her being in this sorry state? Danny
Shot her with the 7mil,got to the carcase & found her hooves to be in bad order. The inside half of each front hoof was normal,however the outside extended by about another 2 times the whole length,about 5cms/2" over the tip of the normal half.The extended part was relatively thin,& curved round as would a ewe's horn.
Is this lame deer likely to have got into this state due to poor management in the past? Or is there likely to be another reason for her being in this sorry state? Danny