#3162783 - 02/13/13 05:18 PM
Re: Pedicle damage?
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lpo1981
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Yep I'd say so.. Looks like damage to the skull to or maybe it's just the picture.
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#3162817 - 02/13/13 05:42 PM
Re: Pedicle damage?
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Brain abscess caused by either rubbing or fighting (pressure on the antler opened the skull along the suture-line, allowing bacteria to enter the brain). Very common. In fact, may be the main form of natural death in bucks. And yes, that will cause the antler deformation, but I think, ultimately, it also caused the buck's death. VERY good eye and cool find.
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#3162837 - 02/13/13 06:01 PM
Re: Pedicle damage?
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Brain abscess caused by either rubbing or fighting (pressure on the antler opened the skull along the suture-line, allowing bacteria to enter the brain). Very common. In fact, may be the main form of natural death in bucks. And yes, that will cause the antler deformation, but I think, ultimately, it also caused the buck's death. VERY good eye and cool find.
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#3162911 - 02/13/13 06:42 PM
Re: Pedicle damage?
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lpo1981
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Brain abscess caused by either rubbing or fighting (pressure on the antler opened the skull along the suture-line, allowing bacteria to enter the brain). Very common. In fact, may be the main form of natural death in bucks. And yes, that will cause the antler deformation, but I think, ultimately, it also caused the buck's death. VERY good eye and cool find. so the buck obviously got the abscess before this set of antlers grew. Would it really take that long to kill the deer?
Yes it could live with it for several years if I'm not mistaken. It usually starts as an injury to the bucks pedicles or skull from fighting and over time eventually the infections makes it into the the brain eventually causing death.
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#3162925 - 02/13/13 06:53 PM
Re: Pedicle damage?
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It may also have started as just a minor injory that caused the abnormal growth and the buck ended up fighting or rubbing too hard causing the injury to worsen.
Lots of possibilities though.
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#3163005 - 02/13/13 07:40 PM
Re: Pedicle damage?
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Well we may now have a cause of death. Bet the yotes got him quick too. Maybe there's another brute roaming the thicket...
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#3163298 - 02/13/13 10:53 PM
Re: Pedicle damage?
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Nice picture. Can you see into the brain cavity between the suture and the pedicle?
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#3163334 - 02/14/13 12:18 AM
Re: Pedicle damage?
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Nice picture. Can you see into the brain cavity between the suture and the pedicle?
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#3163672 - 02/14/13 09:25 AM
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I was thinking it was an abscess also. Grant Woods was talking about them a few weeks ago on his website on growingdeer.tv. Thats one of the fist things they look for when a skull is found.
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