Odd thing on my commute

[CattleArmy]

The other morning on my commute to work. I saw a dead deer. Wow huh! It was the fact the deer had tried to evidentally jump the fence. It's one hind leg had caught in the wire and the leg was held by the top wire and next wire down twisting. I've never seen anything like it. Evidentally the deer struggled so long and just died. Anyone else ever seen anything like this? A dead deer hanging by one leg from the top wire of a fence.

 

[gcreekrch]

I've seen moose calves (yearlings) hung up in wire fences in March and April when they are at their weakest. Have saved a couple. I also once saw a big buck that had jumped a wire fence right over a steel post. His hind legs were between the top and next wire and he was impaled on the post.

 

[Soapweed]

I've seen moose calves (yearlings) hung up in wire fences in March and April when they are at their weakest. Have saved a couple. I also once saw a big buck that had jumped a wire fence right over a steel post. His hind legs were between the top and next wire and he was impaled on the post.

Did the buck impaled on the post look anything like this poor old cow impaled on a protruding piece of pipe?

Poor old cow

Deader than a doornail

She's a goner. Her troubles are over.[/quote]

 

[jigs]

one of the oddest deaths I ever witnessed..... 12 of us were walking CRP grass for pheasants. one rooster popped up and flew across all of us, just a bit out of range... we all take a shot or two at him, but he keeps on flying. then as he is about to freedom, he hits the wire on the telephone pole, it must have broke his neck, cause he folded and dropped like a rock.

one of the guys said that it would be a once in a life time deal to see that....two hours later, almost the same thing only it was a barbed wire fence that got the next one.

 

[gcreekrch]

I've seen moose calves (yearlings) hung up in wire fences in March and April when they are at their weakest. Have saved a couple. I also once saw a big buck that had jumped a wire fence right over a steel post. His hind legs were between the top and next wire and he was impaled on the post.

Did the buck impaled on the post look anything like this poor old cow impaled on a protruding piece of pipe?

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Pretty much, only the deer was jerky when I found it and the post was right through it's pelvis. You do cull the herd in the strangest ways Soapweed! :roll:

 

[Soapweed]

I've seen moose calves (yearlings) hung up in wire fences in March and April when they are at their weakest. Have saved a couple. I also once saw a big buck that had jumped a wire fence right over a steel post. His hind legs were between the top and next wire and he was impaled on the post.

Did the buck impaled on the post look anything like this poor old cow impaled on a protruding piece of pipe?

Pretty much, only the deer was jerky when I found it and the post was right through it's pelvis. You do cull the herd in the strangest ways Soapweed! :roll:

Fortunately, this one wasn't my cow. I saw her along the highway, and it looked like too good of a photo opportunity to pass up. :wink:

 

[DustDevil]

yep, seen plenty of instances just like that. A hunting buddy of mine found a doe (still warm) hanging in the fence behind his brush blind after it got daylight. The rancher let him keep that one for free.
My brother and his wife and son came across a bunch of does beside the road on the way home and a yearling in the rear jumped the fence and got hung up. My 7 year old nephew was hollering, "help him, Daddy!", then after he got him loose he was hollering "shoot him Daddy!"
I remember Tx Parks and Wildlife had an article asking people to only put 1 instead of 2 strands of barbwire over hog wire to prevent such hangups from happening.

 

[Cal]

The other morning on my commute to work. I saw a dead deer. Wow huh! It was the fact the deer had tried to evidentally jump the fence. It's one hind leg had caught in the wire and the leg was held by the top wire and next wire down twisting. I've never seen anything like it. Evidentally the deer struggled so long and just died. Anyone else ever seen anything like this? A dead deer hanging by one leg from the top wire of a fence.

Yeah, it was actually last fall when we weaned the first bunch of calves at the Home Place, it was close to the reinforced pen. It was starting to stink....so I just sawed the leg off and drug the carcass away behind the pickup. Have also had deer get hung up in feedlot panels and die.

 

[gcreekrch]

One heavy snow year I backed in to pick up a bale out of a row and the unroller hit something solid. When I drove forward to see what was amiss there was moose hair on the unroller spike. One of the moose that had been freeloading in the bales had got on it's back between the bales and died there.

 

[TXTibbs]

I couldn't even begin to count the amount of deer I've seen both alive and dead that were hung up in fences. It happens a lot in areas that have woven wire fences with one strand of barbed wire running along the top!

 

[Northern Rancher]

I was riding down a cutline during the rut when a hot doe trotted across-there was a young buck in hot pursuit-he got looking over his shoulder at me and tripped over a one wire electric fence. I think he almost died of embarrassment-I bet she was thinking what a Loser.

 

[Mike]

I couldn't even begin to count the amount of deer I've seen both alive and dead that were hung up in fences. It happens a lot in areas that have woven wire fences with one strand of barbed wire running along the top!

I've found several that were hung in those fences but still alive.

Trying to get a live one untangled is no small feat.

Last one ruined a perfectly good Carhart jacket....Hooves cut it all to heck.

 

[Silver]

It's not uncommon to see such things here. But I don't recall seeing any elk in that predicament. I would assume that's because rather than getting stuck in the wire, they tend to get the wire stuck in the bush.

Now.... those photos of Soaps have sure got my mind working. I don't suppose you know the story do you Soap????

 

[Northern Rancher]

A good old Hereford cow would of just scratched her ribs on that riser and went on to raise a few more calves-an Angus cow saw it as just one more thing to jump lol. Sorry I couldn't resist. I remember finding my neighbors gelding hung up on a post like that when I was a little kid-a sight you just don't forget. I had a weird deal at neighbors last winter-he woke me up at 1'00 A'M to help pull a calf-when we let the cow out of the chute-she took a dirty old run at me then ran up a big snowbank they had pushed up. She disappeared for a bit so we went looking-here she slid down the far side of the bank and was stuck sitting straight up between the snowbank and a drillstem fence-her rear end was about three feet off the ground. She was thrashing around and as I walked up she spit out her calfbed-they'd done a caesaerian on her the year before by the way. The old girl was dead in about five minutes so that hooky,can't calve,prolapsing,fence jumping beatch cleansed herself from the gene pool.

 

[Soapweed]

It's not uncommon to see such things here. But I don't recall seeing any elk in that predicament. I would assume that's because rather than getting stuck in the wire, they tend to get the wire stuck in the bush.

Now.... those photos of Soaps have sure got my mind working. I don't suppose you know the story do you Soap????

It was where an old well pipe was up in the air. My guess is that one cow was bulling, and this cow jumped up on her back. When she came down, she was positioned on the piece of protruding pipe and promptly was positively pronounced impaled and pulseless. :roll:

 

[kolanuraven]

There's that poor ol cow again!! :roll: :roll:


I found a young fawn caught in wire like CA described. Cut her out....sewed her up and raised her on a bottle till she was close to a yearling I'm guessing.

She had a bit of a limp and stood kind whop-sided to the left...so we named her Ilene. " I lean" to the left!!! :lol: :lol:

She stayed around and raised a baby or two but I haven't seen her in years.

 

[Soapweed]

There's that poor ol cow again!! :roll: :roll:

Ah, but the picture is priceless. :wink:

 

[I Luv Herfrds]

Normally don't see it happen around here. The deer break the top wire and the antelope break the bottom wire.

Did have a weird one this fall though. Husband went out to get a round bale for the cows. Grabbed the first bale, pulled it away from the stack and was just lifting it onto the truck bed, when he looked out the other window and saw something thrashing about. Couldn't figure out what it was, so he got out and found that he had speared a porcupine with the bale arms.
So now he has this porcupine. He dropped the bale back to the ground and opened the arms, then he shot it. Didn't want to risk hitting something vital on the truck. :roll:

 

[elwapo]

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A good old Hereford cow would of just scratched her ribs on that ris

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I think the herefords have gas well DNA, the only places I see them any more are on ranches with lots of gas wells!LOL

 

[leanin' H]

Back before i was strollin' the earth, my folks went to change some flood irrigation water at a canyon pasture my Grand-dad homesteaded. Dad took the shovel and mom and her sister took an old rifle and went to look for a dry doe for the table. Mom and my Aunt were gone around 45 minutes and had no luck. Dad had an old cow dog with him and he took after a yearling doe in the field. She ran flat out into a deer fence and snapped her neck. Dad went over and helped her bleed out and cleaned her and put her in the truck. When Mom and my Aunt got back they said they hadn't seen squat. Dad said he figured they would strike out so he took care of it. Aunt Ann said sure! Dad asked her how come he had blood on his hands. She ran to the truck and said... basically "We'll I'll be danged"! Then she wanted to know how he'd done it. Dad kept a straight face and said,"she ran past me in the tall wheat grass and I hit her on the head with my shovel". She and Mom bought that story for years until Pop finally had to fess up. That's the west desert version of fast food! And we see lots of deer hung up in fences. But not nearly as many that become roadkill. When they start migrating it gets ugly along the highways.