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iowabucks

iowabucks

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He's got something going on with the fur on his back.

Bellycrawling under too many barbwire fences? or just some kind of skin condition?

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I am giong to say too many barb wire fences. Definitely going to have a cold spot this winter.
 
He passed out at a college party, seems like every one who does that gets a new hair cut to boot.LOL Most likely barb wire.
 
I got a picture like that and thought maybe he had been fighting but that makes more since to me.Must be lots of fences in his neighborhood!
 
That bald spot you see is from tick rub. Ask anyone in the tanning business about this. It will really show through out the body if you shot him and wanted a shoulder mount. You would be amazed at the amount of hair they lose once the tannery get's finished. It's a shame on a trophy animal that those ticks can do that much damage.
 
This is a picture of the cape from the buck that I shot this year bowhunting. He had small spots and some ticks on him when I caped him, but nothing like what it looks like now. My taxidermist said he pry can't save the cape, so if I wanted a shoulder mount, I would have to find another cape. What a shame. Those aren't white hairs you see. It's bald spots where the hair fell out.
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This is very common on bucks. The only way they can itch thier back, is with their rack. It's from rubbing thier rack in the same spot on thier back back over and over again.
 
Tick Rub?!?!?!?! I have spent a lot of time thinking about the bald spots on bucks and have asked this question to multiple people over the years and I have gotten varied answers. Tick rub is the most plausible answer I have ever heard. I know the bucks we kill, 90% of them anyway, do not come in contact with barbed wire so I ruled that out years ago but I thought it might be due to them bedding in a blowdown or something similar. I knew it had something to do with the bucks only because i have never seen the spots on does before. I was looking at a mature buck the other day that a friend killed and the bald spot had a whole lot of little bloody spots on it. I knew they were tick bites but I never thought they rubbed those areas with their antlers in order to remove the ticks. Thanks Bonehunter.
 
Definitely seen that before on a 3-beam buck I shot in northern missouri, his whole chest was patchy like that due to tick rub. Makes an awesome mount though :)
 
I've shot a doe and it had the same thing and I was going to make a cape but all the hair fell out of it and my friend said it's a rare fungi like athlets foot.
 
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