How do your deer look?

Lundy · Oct 10, 2014

I pulled cards from 7 cameras yesterday that I have had out for a couple of weeks in Athens.

Nothing exciting, bunches of small bucks, fawns still with spots, nursing fawns, coyotes everywhere

I did notice that the deer look really bad. There are two does that look like they are starving to death. Their ribs and hip bones stick out really badly, they are in bad shape. Overall the deer all looked thin.

Anyone else in the Athens area seeing the same?

rsmith · Oct 10, 2014

I'm not in the Athens area but where I'm at they are all happy and fat! I do still have 1 doe with spots and another with spots almost all gone. I hope they make it. Not a lot of big bucks yet, had a couple up until the 2nd week in September than the split up but I got great pics starting in November so I hope they come back around the same way they did last year just in day light!

bowhunter1023 · Oct 10, 2014

All good here in Washington County.

teej89 · Oct 10, 2014

I'm in athens too and coyotes everywhere! The does look fairly good except one, she's exactly as you explain above and I've also had a couple fawns with spots, thru the end of september actually.

aholdren · Oct 10, 2014

I have a camera setup in Meigs County and their is 1 doe with twins that I noticed her ribs were showing but I just assumed the fawns were still nursing and had her leaned out.

Big_Holla · Oct 10, 2014

Our place in Meigs Co. the doe numbers still seem low, even though we may have gained one or two. They just haven't appeared much on trail cams through the summer, even over corn piles. Bucks we have several young bucks, mostly under 2 1/2. Have a couple up and comers but the occasional shooter isn't around near enough to say they'll stick around. Plenty of coyotes though. Had 5 in one picture at one point, all good sized. There was a female with what we thought were 3 pups total and they're getting bigger too. One stand I recently set up it seems may be overlooking their den up in the rocks as they really frequent that spot a lot from all different directions.

Lundy · Oct 10, 2014

I have a least two that look really bad like this. They are both nursing single fawns

And many more that are pretty thin like this, also nursing single fawns.

I also have not seen any deer with more than one fawn for sure so far

finelyshedded · Oct 10, 2014

Dang Kim, they sure are thin!

Mike · Oct 10, 2014

I'll let you know when I see some.

Hortontoter · Oct 10, 2014

Many of my deer were quite thin this spring. But, by August most of them looked pretty healthy. A buck I saw on stand last night had a big body and looked to be in great condition.

MK111 · Oct 10, 2014

All deer are fat and healthy here in Butler County. Don't understand the ribs showing as everything is still green here. Looks like sick one's to me and that's not good overall. Keep us posted.

Lundy · Oct 10, 2014

The bucks all look fat and healthy as do some of the does

brock ratcliff · Oct 10, 2014

I've got one that looks really thin to me, but over the last couple weeks she has started to fatten up a little. This is the time of year they gain most of their weight, so hopefully you just have some that have lagged behind a little.

bowhunter1023 · Oct 10, 2014

That is a skinny doe! Wow. Hope there's no real issue around there.

aholdren · Oct 10, 2014

Spencie · Oct 10, 2014

I'm in Athens county....all of the deer using our place look fat and happy.

Bigslam51 · Oct 10, 2014

The rest of the deer around my area look healthy except this one.

MK111 · Oct 10, 2014

A couple questions to think about. The skinny deer shown is this just a normal thing in nature? Or is there some type of sickness?
Or is these deer showing up because of the 1000's of game camera out in the field and we are just seeing what's sorta normal in nature?
Just asking.

Bigslam51 · Oct 10, 2014

That deer looks sick too me.

Joel · Oct 10, 2014

All look pretty well fed around here.

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