Diseased Roe Buck- Mange

[Erik Hamburger]

Attached pictures show a badly diseased Roe buck, in a very poor condition, assumed to be Mange. Neck very pussy, carcass skin & bones. Shot by a friend, Gloucestershire, 27 July '21.

 

[baguio]

Was it definitely Mange or could it be an RTA? Regardless, it was a good cull.

 

[75]

Never seen mange anywhere near as bad as that. You sure it's not had a dog hanging off its neck at some point? Hard to tell from the pics though.

I bet he was relieved to be able to take that one out.

 

[long_range_rob]

Mange would have spread more. As said above I would think long dog, RTA or bad neck shot (probably 22lr)

 

[GWP]

Looks more rta than mange good job done there

 

[Buchan]

The skin damage is too severe in one place for it to be mange. If it was, then the rest of the coat/skin would be bad. I've seen that sort of pattern of dried skin lifting away with animals getting photosensitisation , but I'd expect the ears to be affected. So I too am going with a dog that's set up a nasty infection under the skin and it's sloughed off. The sub mandibular and prescapular nodes are likely to be larger than usual.

 

[User00026]

Definitely a bad infection and not mange, the neck is not pussy

 

[sikamalc]

I responded to this on another area of the web.

Mange does not appear like this in my opinion. I would say its a wound through fighting, or someone has creased it with a shot and its become infected. This would certainly happen at this time of year. I have seen this before a few years back, when a client skimmed a buck across the neck. One week later I found it with another client still alive although looking very sick, with a similar wound and fly infested with maggots.
I would put my money on someone trying to head shoot it and making a hash of it. But that's my opinion.

 

[NickJ]

Agree with above that it looks too local for mange, here's a bad case of mange I reported a few years back: Demodicos or 'red mange' found in roe