I found a dead fully grown doe floating in my pond this morning. I fished it out expecting a bullet hole or arrow but all I could see was a place on her back right leg just above the hoof where the hide had been torn all the way around. There were a few maggots on it.
I've been lining one side of my property with 5 ft x 16 ft welded fence panels to keep hogs out. A week or so ago I was driving out and a doe jumped the fence and got her back right leg hung up in it. She struggled for 30 seconds or so and got loose.
I suspect the dead one I found today is the same deer.
Heard coyotes howling last night but that happens all the time. I saw one standing on the dam when I was walking that direction this morning.
What do you deer experts think might have happened.
I've been lining one side of my property with 5 ft x 16 ft welded fence panels to keep hogs out. A week or so ago I was driving out and a doe jumped the fence and got her back right leg hung up in it. She struggled for 30 seconds or so and got loose.
I suspect the dead one I found today is the same deer.
Heard coyotes howling last night but that happens all the time. I saw one standing on the dam when I was walking that direction this morning.
What do you deer experts think might have happened.