What happened to her ear?

[Jbxl20]

Interesting trail cam pic from my property here in south central PA. I have never seen a deer missing an ear!

 

[Rick M.]

Maybe someone shot at her with one of those turkey decapitating broadheads.

 

[FLATHEAD]

Yotes? Frostbite?

 

[Jbxl20]

Possibly coyotes, there’s definitely a pile of them here. Actually the coyote in my profile pic was shot 20yards from this trail camera. We had a 3 legged deer running around 2 years ago. That could have been car accident or bad shot that eventually led to losing that leg. But missing an ear? That’s a new one to me.

 

[Glendon Mullins]

 

[Jbxl20]

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Haha my buddy nick named her Evander Holyfield

 

[RMM]

Probably blood loss from too many damn ticks, they're bad already this year /sarcasm

 

[Cameron.25]

Haha my buddy nick named her Evander Holyfield

It should be Evandeer Holyfield lol

 

[Jbxl20]

It should be Evandeer Holyfield lol

I’ll have to tell him that.

 

[NCmountainhunter]

My vote is Coyote.

 

[Cconrad94]

Interesting trail cam pic from my property here in south central PA. I have never seen a deer missing an ear!

There's no telling what happened. Probably coyotes if i had to guess. Super resilient animals!

 

[Longrangeshooter1]

Coyotes would be my only guess, never seen anything like it before.

 

[eddielasvegas]

Odocoileus virginianus van Gogh?


Eddie

 

[bdg848]

RMM is right. Ticks can cause severe blood loss, killing tissue on the extremities.

 

[TheACGuy]

That’s pretty gnarly

 

[go_deep]

Several years ago in the Sandhills of Nebraska a bunch of deer froze both there ears off from frostbite. I've got old 35mm pictures of a group of does standing by my friends ranch house, all of them earless.

 

[JohnB]

I'm in mule deer country in eastern WA and we had a doe that hung around town with one ear. Now that she died I've joked about wrestling down a yearling to make a replacement.