Dead Red deer (GRAPHIC PICS!!!!)

[sharky620ti]

Hi all, I just thought I would share these pics in case anyone is interested.

I found this red deer hind while out looking for calves on Exmoor.
As you can see the back leg has hooked over and through the fence meaning the deer must have suffered a long slow death.
It wasn't there 2 weeks ago, so its amazing to see how nature cleans its self up quickly. The chest cavity was totally hollow leaving just the ribs and parts of the skin and fur.

Its a rack that's used a lot, and the fact there is a decomposing deer laying there doesn't seem to stop deer using it as she was covered in earth kicked up from other deer crossing.

Hopefully she didn't have a calve this year.

I'll be going back there in about 2 weeks so it will be interesting to see whats left then.






Hope I've not put you off your dinner.


Chris

[posie]

..Poor girl, let's hope she had a heart attack through struggling and panic, and not a slow death..AND that she wasn't eaten when still alive...couldn't the fence be filled in with board or something where the deer cross?

Posie.

[sharky620ti]

I don't think the farmers like the deer, a dead deer is just 1 less deer to eat crop and knock fences down.

[posie]

OK Sharky, I'd better shut up then, or it'll turn into ''one of those threads.''..

Posie..

[Gill Catton]

I once saw a dead fox by the side of the road and within a week it was just a scrap of fur (again this was in the summer) its amazing sometimes how quick nature can be to recycle!

(I too hope she had a relatively quick passing poor thing)

[Dogs]

Not a nice way for anything to go. Barbed wire is usually to blame, but like RTA's, they will always occur, just another risk of being a wild deer in Britain today.
I did manage to get a Roe out of a fence last month, and luckily it was ok to release straight away, most are not as fortunate

[sharky620ti]

Originally Posted by posie

OK Sharky, I'd better shut up then, or it'll turn into ''one of those threads.''..

Posie..

I may be wrong, just the opinion I get... saying that, they do leave the grass to grow long making it a nice area to have babies.

I'm sure not all landowners are the same.

[Beekeeper]

Not nice at all, it does occasionaly happen and once in the New Forest i came across two Bucks which had died after their antlers got entangled whilst fighting over females, at least that is nature whereas a fence is another man made object causing more problems for nature.

Ian