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MontanaS

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Shot him from 200 yards. Was scratching my head when I saw he was still in full velvet. Scratching it even harder when I went to open him up and saw he had no testicals. Turns out that's why he is still in velvet. Weighed over 200 dressed and by the condition of his teeth judges to be around a decade old. Boned him out today and the meet looks really good for an old bruiser like him. Of course he's never done anything but eat, eat, eat.
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Don't you mean she??

Isn't this a doe or hermaphrodite or something? Or did it have a penis and just not testicles??

I've seen whitetail does with Antlers (well, once - buddy shot it and freaked out when he discovered his buck was a doe)
 
I bet anything that is a she.

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this is one from our area.
 
No, it was definetly a he. There was a penis. And we found insided attached to the urethra what looked to be one small testicle.
 
Then its either a crytorchid (retained teste) or a hermaphrodite. If the penis was smallish, and the teste was inside, was it attached to a tube? Maybe a smallish reproductive organ resembling a uterus?

By the way, congrats on the excellent buck!
 
The penis was smallish and yes the teste, if it was one, was attached to the penal tube. It was also located in about the same area that the testicals should have been if on the outside.
 
Montana. 8mm yes. Yes he had scent glands. It is the hight of the rut here now and did not smell as though he was rutting. There was a very slight oder if you sniffed his gland up close but not enough to say he was in rut. He had been with a doe and fawn, however. But by the time I got to him they had split apart, though he was sniffing as though he was searching for them.
 
Just curious, do deer like that ever drop there horns, or do they continue to grow since they stay in velvet. My dad mounted a deer for a guy probably 10 yrs ago that was still in velvet because it had hooked his nuts on a fence or something and castrated itself. I've heard of antlered does as well. Always wondered if the deer drop there horns like other bucks do.
 
From the research I've been able to conduct it seems that they do not lose them, they do stay in velvet, and do continue to grow but at a very slow rate. A buck who's teste's are injured or through underdevlopment will produce just enough hormone to sprout antlers. The other side effect is all the narls and crazy small points. They are sometimes called "cactus heads."
 
I wouldn't think they would since the stay in velvet. I would think they would have to loose the velvet which is the blood supply so they would start drying.
 
A true stag either from injury or development problems does not drop its antlers. They continue to grow until death, the rate is much, much slower though. Their antlers will usually not be formed in the "typical" manner, many abnormal points. Some will look like a club with melted wax running down the antler.
 
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