Its Bruce, the queer deer.
Posted on 12/19/2005 3:49:02 PM PST by digger48
DES MOINES, Iowa A northeast Iowa hunter thought he might have shot a trophy buck when he shot a 14-point deer during Iowa's first shotgun season early this month.
25-year-old Eric Weymiller, of rural Harpers Ferry, started to field dress the animal when _ to his surprise _ he noticed it wasn't a buck at all.
He discovered that he was dressing a doe sporting antlers with 14 tines, a big rack even for a buck.
Weymiller says he stopped field dressing the doe and called a D-N-R biologist, who confirmed that the animal was a female.
More research will be required to determine whether Weymiller's deer's antlers are large enough to set a record for doe antlers.
He shot the animal December 7th in Allamakee Count
The frickin queers are everywhere.
I bet that doe drives a Subaru.
Careful, they might have a trademark on that!
Found it here
You guys ever hear about this?? There such a thing as tansvestite deers!!
Now, female reindeer have horns, that I knew. I'll have to ask some of the local hunters if they have ever seen such a thing.
You gotta see this.
Brokebuck Mountain ping.
Its Bruce, the queer deer.
Transvestite?
ping
14-point deer turns out to be doe
The Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa — A hunter thought he might have bagged a trophy buck when he shot a 14-point deer in northeast Iowa earlier this month.
Eric Weymiller, 25, of rural Harpers Ferry, started to field dress the animal when to his surprise he noticed it wasn’t a buck at all.
“I noticed right away it was missing some plumbing,” said Weymiller, who shot the animal Dec. 7 in Allamakee County.
He discovered he was dressing a doe sporting antlers with 14 tines, a big rack even for a buck.
“I stopped field dressing the animal and called a DNR biologist,” Weymiller said. “I wanted them to document this.”
Iowa Department of Natural Resources Biologist Terry Hainfield confirmed that the animal was female.
“It is unusual to find a doe with antlers, but what makes this particularly unusual is that the antlers had hardened and grown so big,” Hainfield said.
More research will be required to determine whether the deer’s antlers are large enough to set a record for doe antlers.
Very interesting!
Wonder if this was a game ranch where they feed the critters, critters and steriods to "enhance" the growth of trophy deer ?
Sort of like Eaker and Viagra ? (where is that slacker ?:o)
A drag king of the forest.
Growth depends on nutrition and heredity. Antlers can also be found on female deer. Normally the doe has spikes that remain in velvet. The spiked doe remains fertile and can produce young. This occurs in one to every 20 thousand deer. In the Maryland deer kill, only two or three antlered doe are reported each year.
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/wildlife/antlers.asp
Technically they were antlers( mostly calcium) and not horns ( keritin and bone)Antlers fall off every year; horns don't. Usually both sexes of an animal will have horns, but males are usually the only ones with antlers. This doe must have had a hormone imbalance.
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