We have a decent amount that grew funky racks for even 2 seasons & the “3rd” grew normal.Injury, disease, or genetic abnormality. If he lives through the season, my bet is he continues to grow a stubby or dramatically abnormal antler on that side, every season.
Injury, disease, or genetic abnormality. If he lives through the season, my bet is he continues to grow a stubby or dramatically abnormal antler on that side, every season.
My guess too. Bottom pics are 2020 and top pics are 2021. In any case, I believe this is the same deer, but the antler appears to be broken off in the 2020 pics. The pic from the original OP doesn't look to be a broken antler to me. It looks like a deformation. Broken antlers will grow back as full antlers the next season, where deformations have a tendency to repeat year after year.Guess the order is reversed on my pics…2020 at the bottom and 2021 first set
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Guess I’m not seeing a broken antler in the 2020 pictures as it appears to just be a large spike unless I’m missing something... Unfortunately I never found anything that resembled the spike to confirm if it was broken or not. At any rate if it was broken then yes, I’d expect it to grow normal the following year.My guess too. Bottom pics are 2020 and top pics are 2021. In any case, I believe this is the same deer, but the antler appears to be broken off in the 2020 pics. The pic from the original OP doesn't look to be a broken antler to me. It looks like a deformation. Broken antlers will grow back as full antlers the next season, where deformations have a tendency to repeat year after year.