A white-tail buck deer named Goliath stands in the field of Rodney and Diane Miller's farm in Knox, Pa., Aug. 5, 2003. Goliath, a massive buck with a huge rack and worth perhaps hundreds of thousands of dollars, died, Dec. 6, 2004. (AP)
Posted on 01/10/2005 8:03:05 AM PST by ijcr
A deer owner gored to death by a stag had entered the animal's compound during the rutting season, a North Yorkshire coroner was told.
Michael Oakley said Clifford Colling's death last October should serve as a warning to other deer farmers.
Mr Colling, 73, was butted and fatally injured as he tended his herd at Moor Farm in Humanby Gap, near Filey.
Mr Oakley recorded a verdict of accidental death.
Tending animals
The inquest at Pickering was told Mr Colling's son, Christopher, and farmhand Peter Harrison, went to look for him when he failed to return home.
They eventually entered the deer compound on foot but one of the stags, known as Oliver, charged the pair.
Red deer
The herd of deer were in an enclosure for the rutting season Mr Harrison was knocked to the ground and suffered cuts and bruising.
The two men escaped when the stag charged a telegraph pole and dazed itself.
They later returned in a vehicle and found Mr Colling's body lying close to a fence. He had suffered multiple injuries, mainly to his chest.
Mr Oakley warned stag owners they should not enter the compounds during the rutting season.
The stag which attacked Mr Colling was later destroyed.
Seems it just gets harder and harder to make a living in Britain.
Perhaps the stag gored him for cause.
A white-tail buck deer named Goliath stands in the field of Rodney and Diane Miller's farm in Knox, Pa., Aug. 5, 2003. Goliath, a massive buck with a huge rack and worth perhaps hundreds of thousands of dollars, died, Dec. 6, 2004. (AP)
If only he had a gun.
The stag would disagree.
Oh Deer, thats awful.
Evidently only when you get between a stag and some booty do those critters get vicious!
The farmer must've NEVER heard the phrase "DO NOT get between a DOG and his BONE!" Same theory applies during the rut.
There's an old video out there of a guy who covered himself in doe scent being nailed by a buck in a nature preserve.
No, I don't think it was that. The trouble is that stags often don't act like dogs or bulls and make a big warning display before attacking. They will walk slowly and quietly up to you so that you say to yourself, "Oh, the magnificent animal is coming close to me! What a magical moment!" Then they lower the rack and press forward.
So this dude probably thought he could just slip into the pen to do some maintenance and get out before he got into trouble. And then the stag walked up to him. If he backed up against a tree or fence, that was absolutely the end.
I think stags slash with their front hooves too, but I have not seen it personally.
Heck, I wouldn't even get between a hamster and some booty. Not unless I wanted a couple holes in my pinky..
I deer say thats a bogus allegation.
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LOL!!
Obligatory hamster pic:
I saw a stag slashing with it's front hooves on a video. It was an older gentleman in that video also.
LOL!!! (- your tag line!)
He was staggered...
(OK, shoot me; I deserve it...)
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