Can A Deer Survive With A Broken Back Leg
I shot a doe with a rifle in the back leg not intentional she lunged as i shot from 180 yds.
Can a deer survive with a broken back leg. Vehicles dogs fences pesticides and other chemicals. Deer can survive a broken back leg but they may be more painful than a broken front leg because hind legs have more nerve fibers. A friend of mine that lives over in the prineville area has a monster 7x6 buck that hangs around his house that clearly has a healed broken right rear leg.
I came back home hours later to see bloody evidence of the drama in the snow. A broken back can happen for several reasons such as an automobile accident or a weakening of the backbone. Orthopaedic teaching suggests that long-bone fractures in wild animals are not uncommon and that they can heal naturally.
These stand a fairly good chance of survival but it depends on the damage and the length of time in which the animal has been caught for. For what its worth we have a 4 12 year old buck on a ranch thats been missing part of a hind leg from just below the hock for over two years. This paper investigates this statement.
The buck appears healthy and the antler deformity is still significant. WRAS receives many calls about deer caught by their antlers in rope swings by their legs in stock fencing and by their antlers in electric fencing. Deer hoog and leg injury questions and answers.
I had a pretty good idea where his core area was and that theory was reinforced when our neighbor found his deformed shed this past spring Todd wrote. It was a relief to hear from the officer that it was the right thing to do. Ah jeez well that cant be good you might be saying to yourself.
A paunch-hit deer will usually hunch up and walk or trot away in a humped-up posture. The good thing is that deer have lots of endorphins in their brain and this means they dont feel pain like we do at all. Next year he will have a mess up rack almost guaranteed.
