Long time ago I wondered the same, took a minute to scan Dr Google and it is possible but there are a lot of factors involved in its success - most important 🤷♀️ is if it’s a clean break, intact skin (infection) and the horse’s nature. A messy/compound fracture is probably not possible.
I got to wondering about this recently myself - ca…
Long time ago I wondered the same, took a minute to scan Dr Google and it is possible but there are a lot of factors involved in its success - most important 🤷♀️ is if it’s a clean break, intact skin (infection) and the horse’s nature. A messy/compound fracture is probably not possible.
I got to wondering about this recently myself - came across a scene in my garden a few weeks ago: was digging up potatoes, the last variety out of 9 or 10 and I came across what I thought was a dead rodent - the tail end. Poking around it turned out to be about 10-12" of the lower portion of a deer’s leg, including the hoof, hoof side down. Since I haven’t been actively trapping invasive rodents (gophers/ground squirrels) there are areas riddled with tunnels. The guys in my small group think I’m crazy but I’ve been wondering; could a deer have been spooked by a neighbor (dog 🤷♀️), run helter skelter thru the garden, stepped into/through one of these tunnels and cleanly snapped off its foreleg? The guys say it was buried by a dog (orientation is wrong) or dropped by a hawk/eagle.
My concern is that come spring/summer and I can begin dealing with the weed forest that use to be my garden I’ll find a deer carcass in there.
I would guess, no. No chance deer broke it off and. . . left it in the hole. Likely is that a dog buried it after scavenging a gut / carcass pile from a local hunter's kill.
Long time ago I wondered the same, took a minute to scan Dr Google and it is possible but there are a lot of factors involved in its success - most important 🤷♀️ is if it’s a clean break, intact skin (infection) and the horse’s nature. A messy/compound fracture is probably not possible.
I got to wondering about this recently myself - came across a scene in my garden a few weeks ago: was digging up potatoes, the last variety out of 9 or 10 and I came across what I thought was a dead rodent - the tail end. Poking around it turned out to be about 10-12" of the lower portion of a deer’s leg, including the hoof, hoof side down. Since I haven’t been actively trapping invasive rodents (gophers/ground squirrels) there are areas riddled with tunnels. The guys in my small group think I’m crazy but I’ve been wondering; could a deer have been spooked by a neighbor (dog 🤷♀️), run helter skelter thru the garden, stepped into/through one of these tunnels and cleanly snapped off its foreleg? The guys say it was buried by a dog (orientation is wrong) or dropped by a hawk/eagle.
My concern is that come spring/summer and I can begin dealing with the weed forest that use to be my garden I’ll find a deer carcass in there.
All I know is that it’s weird
I would guess, no. No chance deer broke it off and. . . left it in the hole. Likely is that a dog buried it after scavenging a gut / carcass pile from a local hunter's kill.