This Gal was a little upset

dick195252 · Post by **dick195252** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 12:39 am

[img][img]http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii13 ... ee-068.jpg[/img][/img] I have no idea why she just up and wanted to fight

mikej · Post by **mikej** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 12:51 am

sassy old girl

Farmer · Post by **Farmer** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 7:37 am

Cool picture . Have only seen a couple does duke it out like that in the field once in my life time .

Esox · Post by **Esox** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 8:11 am

A few years back I had a couple of Does in front of me start fighting like that.. The big old Doe reared up and clocked the younger Doe right on top of her head.... Sounded like a baseball bat hitting a tree trunk... The young Doe almost went down for the count. She stood there for a couple of seconds with her head lowered and then just shook her head..... Funniest thing I've ever saw...I swear I saw little stars and angels circling around her head... I'm sure it was a lucky punch, but it probably made a lasting inpression on her....

Cossack · Post by **Cossack** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 9:24 am

They do tend to get testy at times. So much for the Bambi image.

ninepointer · Post by **ninepointer** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 9:34 am

Great pic!

A couple years ago while hanging stands in late summer I got to see a mad as heck doe chasing another doe all over a woodlot. The high-speed chase occasionally passed right under my tree and the 2 deer were oblivious to the backpack and other gear that I had lying on the ground. We all know that deer are agile, but the evasive manouvres that the "victim" was employing were pretty amazing to see.

dick195252 · Post by **dick195252** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 12:11 pm

Bambi smambi she was upset[Lot like my better half once in a while when i act up

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B-Logger · Post by **B-Logger** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 12:31 pm

You will see that a lot if there is a good food source but little food there. One doe will try to get it all.

You'll also see this when a doe chases her last years fawn away when she is ready to drop this year's fawns.

Several years ago we had 8 deer come into the yard in late winter. One was a young buck and he got too close to our crab apple tree and a doe went after him. He ended up with a huge piece of hide hanging down off his neck and a big patch of bare skin. We saw that buck several times after that and he was doing fine.

Kelley · Post by **Kelley** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 12:45 pm

The only time I have seen this it was 3 does. Looked like they were doing a dance. All 3 on their hind legs flailing away.
Kelley

sumner4991 · Post by **sumner4991** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 12:53 pm

ninepointer wrote:Great pic!

the 2 deer were oblivious to the backpack and other gear that I had lying on the ground.

Try being on the ground when they start chasing each other . . .I've come close to being stampeded a couple of times. In 2007, a buck was chasing a doe as I was stalking. I saw them coming from 300 yards away at full speed. I barely got my gun up before they were 10 yards away. The doe about fell trying to stop. They have tunnel vision when they get their mind on something.

I got the buck, by the way. He never knew what hit him . . .he was just glad the doe finally stopped.

lscha · Post by **lscha** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 1:05 pm

Reminds me of the time I took my mom to a spot off the edge of a corn field where I had been watching and snapping pics of deer in August.

I made her get up before dawn. She didn't like that too much. We walked to where I usually sit behind some fallen trees. We could sit and see over the trunks. The deer always came around the corner of the corn field about the same time every morning and I was confident this morning would be no different. As it got light I readied my camera and told her to watch the corner. All of a sudden 3 does came tearing around the corner and closed the 20 yard distance between the edge and us. We ducked and they jumped right over us. Mom about had a heart attack. I thought it was way cool. She didn't come sit with me anymore after that.

Nope, didn't get a picture.

VixChix · Post by **VixChix** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 1:07 pm

Hierarchy is a big thing between horses, each has their place and they're always jostling to move up the ladder - deer might be the same?

sumner4991 · Post by **sumner4991** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 1:19 pm

VixChix wrote:Hierarchy is a big thing between horses, each has their place and they're always jostling to move up the ladder - deer might be the same?

I believe so . . .I saw a group of seven bucks a few years ago. There was one very large 11 point that the others left alone. The rest took turns sparing.

Laura . . .that would have been a great picture.

wabi · Post by **wabi** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 7:12 pm

I've seen does spar like than a couple times. Neat to watch!

Gimpaw · Post by **Gimpaw** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 9:10 pm

sumner4991 wrote:[quote="I got the buck, by the way. He never knew what hit him . . .he was just glad the doe finally stopped.

Poor buck will spend eternity thinking that the doe whooped him.

The pic looks like a classic case of deer PMS