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The guy lost his foot

There was a doe on my place like that when we bought the property in 2019, except hers was a front leg. The previous owner said she showed up in 2017 after a heavy snow and basically spent the rest of the winter in the plowed driveway. She finally disappeared in the spring of 2024. The last couple years she was around you could see her everyday from the house. If anything would bother her she would come into the yard until we would come outside and scare off whatever was troubling her. It was usually young bucks during the rut. She never did drag a good one into the yard for my years of keeping her around.
 
Had a buck with a broken hip, believe he got hit by a car as a 2 year old.

Grew a funky rack at age 3 and my neighbor finally shot him. He would come to his alfalfa field daily.

I'd fold like a cheap suit if anything like that ever happened to me :)
 
203ntyp said:
I saw a doe with one front leg completely blown off years ago. The next year she had two fawns and could run pretty well. The toughest animals ever that I admire and respect.
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I once shot a doe with my muzzy after watching it run into the woodlot that I was hunting, along with several other deer. I could tell that it was limping noticeably and I thought someone must have wounded it, so I lined up my longest shot of my life and took it. Bingo! I hit her perfectly, a fact that I couldn't tell until I made my way over to where she disappeared and found her dead about 5 yards from where I last saw her.

Only then, up close, could I tell why she was limping. She wasn't freshly shot like I thought, but one of her front legs was really jacked up and mostly healed up too, but totally inoperable. I suspect she got caught in a fence, but eventually tore her way out of it before the coyotes showed up and lived on. She was a big doe and had two fawns...she was living an otherwise normal life.
 
We had a doe on our farm missing her left rear foot. She was at least 8 plus the last time we saw her. From what I saw, she kept to herself a little and I never saw her jump the fence on one side of our plot. I had the feeling that she might not be wandering terribly far, but I could be way off on my relatively few observations. I was very glad to see her each year.
Also, I never saw her with a fawn. I really enjoyed the time she bedded very close to my blind and it made it nearly impossible to take pictures of a very big 4 year old we were passing on.
 
Being a deer- I’d much rather lose that foot vs get a messed up hoof & infection. Which the second is a long painful death.
Pretty wild. Wonder what the heck could do that?!? Tough dudes for sure & him holding antlers into march- good sign!!!
 
I had a doe like that and got pics of her for several years with fawns,but I don't know that I ever saw her.I had another yearling do that and she died that spring.I think it's just from running through woods and dislocating it,then it falls off.
 
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