Check out the horns on this buck!

[braggscowboy]

Horns like a Jersey Bull. On my game camera.

[Sabrina67]

My goodness!
I wonder if he ever feels like everyone is looking at him...:P

[BigJ]

very common to see those in south mississippi, we all called them cow horn bucks. I believe they are muted genes in the bucks makeup

[shdybrady]

if you get the chance he needs to be culled out

[calliemoonbeam]

I've never seen one like that! Wow, now I'll be checking out every one I see even closer, lol. So does that mean the meat would be bad, if it's genetic defect?

[shdybrady]

not not necessarily. It pretty much just effects the horns. I am sure it is a perfectly healty deer. You just him out of population so more dont come up like him. Deer rarely have a runt of the litter, this is the way the recessive genes come out

[BigJ]

I have eaten a number of them and it doesn't effect the meat. but it should be culled to stop the gene.

[calliemoonbeam]

Thanks guys! I'm not a hunter and don't know any personally right now, but it's good to know for future reference.

[mpete]

Is it just something that is in the yearling bucks?

[suitcase_sally]

His momma has been playing in the hay stacks...

[Tad]

I saw a buck two years in a row that looks like a pronghorn. The horns go almost strait up with points comeing off the front.

[pookshollow]

Originally Posted by Wind in Her Hair

we have a gene pool with "pronghorns" up here, too - and for the record - to be entirely accurate - the things that grow out of a deer's head are NOT horns - they are antlers.

Antlers are made of bone - horns are made from the same stuff as fingernails and hair.

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I've been sitting on my hands since I first saw this thread . . .

[braggscowboy]

Originally Posted by Wind in Her Hair

we have a gene pool with "pronghorns" up here, too - and for the record - to be entirely accurate - the things that grow out of a deer's head are NOT horns - they are antlers.

Antlers are made of bone - horns are made from the same stuff as fingernails and hair.

The Ecphorizer

The Symbolism of Horns
Lisa Barrigan Basker




As far back as man can be traced, he has had an emotional esteem for horned animals. Cave paintings indicate the intensity of ancient hunters' feeling toward deer, bison, aurochs, rams and oxen. Later, written records affirm these visual ones. The nomad and farmer cherished his goats, cattle and oxen. These feelings were not wholly based on the fact that the animals The horns were the force behind the plow's coitus with the earth.

provided him with meat, milk, cheese, wool, and hides, and pulled his plow or threshed his grain.

He believed that their strength was concentrated in their horns. Further, these were herbivorous animals, offering no competition for game that man hunted. In fact, they were easily-obtained prey for him. They shared the human instinct for gregarious herding together, and except when threatened by preying animals or during rutting season, they were gentle creatures.

The Hebrew word "keren" means both horn and power. Fighting for their lives or at mating, rams, deer, elk and oxen butted, tossed, gored and killed with their horns. Ancient gods and super beings had horns. Kings adorned headdresses with horns as a symbol of strength, supremacy, sovereignty and regal dignity. Horns meant glory as well as aggressive ferocity.

[braggscowboy]

Originally Posted by pookshollow

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I've been sitting on my hands since I first saw this thread . . .

ant·ler   /ˈæntlər/ Show Spelled[ant-ler] Show IPA
noun
one of the solid deciduous horns, usually branched, of an animal of the deer family

[SilverFlame819]

I don't know, guys... I think he just MIGHT have horns. Are you sure the does up in that area aren't giving the eyelash-batting to the bulls at the local dairy?!

[SilverFlame819]

In that case though, I guess he'd have... Hantlers? Antorns?

Seriously though, I think he's cool-looking!

[SilverFlame819]

(And along the lines of deer having horns... I feel the same way when people talk about antelope and buffalo. I always think - did I just move to Africa?)

[braggscowboy]

Originally Posted by SilverFlame819

(And along the lines of deer having horns... I feel the same way when people talk about antelope and buffalo. I always think - did I just move to Africa?)

SF is the antelope a "pronghorn" or "prongantlered antelope? It really does matter, one and the same unless it happens to be Christmas and then Santas Reindeers have antlers!

[Jackie]

Originally Posted by braggscowboy

SF is the antelope a "pronghorn" or "prongantlered antelope? It really does matter, one and the same unless it happens to be Christmas and then Santas Reindeers have antlers!

Since today seems to be education day....

Didja know that Santa's reindeer are all female? Only female reindeer have antlers at Christmas. So when the people that raise reindeer want to do christmas specials they always have to take a female! Well...unless they want it to look like a goofy antlerless wonder.

[braggscowboy]

Originally Posted by Jackie

Since today seems to be education day....

Didja know that Santa's reindeer are all female? Only female reindeer have antlers at Christmas. So when the people that raise reindeer want to do christmas specials they always have to take a female! Well...unless they want it to look like a goofy antlerless wonder.

Don't know if I knew that or not, neat information. I am sure that Santa wanted it that way, he knew that only women would get the job done, if they did not get lost shopping somewhere.