Crazy Deer Skull

[Tex_Cattleman]

Doing a bunch of euros each year, I see some odd stuff. This one took the cake. I can't imagine the pain bucks like this go through!

[Bucknaked]

I saw one very similar to that this year! Yes Sir, if that happened to a human we would die in the wild lol

[bobc]

That does not look comfortable at all.

[bobc]

Any idea as to what caused that?

[Gumbo Man]

Looks like he was chasing a doe and she stopped abruptly.

[bowhuntertex]

That is a wild one. Did a hog skull for Rig one time that had part of the nose missing from a gun shot wound. Make a pretty cool skull mount.

[ddcainjr]

About 5 year ago w e shot 4 bucks in Eldorado with that same issue. With the 1st one we thought could have been involved in an accident, but we saw too many of them. Here are pics of two of them.

[SaltwaterSlick]

There is a condition called "Parrot Nose" that causes the nose/sinus area to deform like that. Don't think it is actually painful, but the deer usually don't live many years because they cannot properly chew their food (cudd). Their upper/lower teeth don't come together except on the extreme end(s) so not very good nutrient absorption results. Seems the older they get the more pronounced the problem becomes. I killed a buck similar to that on Mr. Moody's ranch South of Del Rio many years ago. Our TPWD biologist is the guy that filled us in on the particulars of it. He estimated my deer at 2 1/2 years old. I had shown him pics of the deer and he suggested I go ahead and take him... He was a 6 point (8 without brow tines).

The one in these pics is pretty bad! And of course it could have come from an injury, but the Euro looks like it grew that way... JMHO.

[Drycreek3189]

There is a condition called "Parrot Nose" that causes the nose/sinus area to deform like that. Don't think it is actually painful, but the deer usually don't live many years because they cannot properly chew their food (cudd). Their upper/lower teeth don't come together except on the extreme end(s) so not very good nutrient absorption results. Seems the older they get the more pronounced the problem becomes. I killed a buck similar to that on Mr. Moody's ranch South of Del Rio many years ago. Our TPWD biologist is the guy that filled us in on the particulars of it. He estimated my deer at 2 1/2 years old. I had shown him pics of the deer and he suggested I go ahead and take him... He was a 6 point (8 without brow tines).

The one in these pics is pretty bad! And of course it could have come from an injury, but the Euro looks like it grew that way... JMHO.

Dang Charlie, it’s plain to see that buck caught a left from Mike Tyson ! If he was much older I would have said George Foreman !

[Tex_Cattleman]

There is a condition called "Parrot Nose" that causes the nose/sinus area to deform like that. Don't think it is actually painful, but the deer usually don't live many years because they cannot properly chew their food (cudd). Their upper/lower teeth don't come together except on the extreme end(s) so not very good nutrient absorption results. Seems the older they get the more pronounced the problem becomes. I killed a buck similar to that on Mr. Moody's ranch South of Del Rio many years ago. Our TPWD biologist is the guy that filled us in on the particulars of it. He estimated my deer at 2 1/2 years old. I had shown him pics of the deer and he suggested I go ahead and take him... He was a 6 point (8 without brow tines).

The one in these pics is pretty bad! And of course it could have come from an injury, but the Euro looks like it grew that way... JMHO.

Great info! Parrot Mouth. Just researched it and that is definitely what it is. It's genetic, most often happening in piebald deer.

You win today's contest of, "He just knows stuff".

[kmack]

My daughter took a buck just like that 4 yrs ago, we called him Broke Nose at the time.

[BayouCat]

Didn't have anything as extreme as the peyronie noses on here, but I did do one this year that had the whole left nasal area smashed in and somehow refused. That thing was full of bot fly larva too.

[Tony Pic]

Back in 2016. One of our friends shot this on a neighboring property of our Catskill NY deer camp.

[MichaelW]

Interesting.... we had a pretty weird one several years back that was similar looking and never killed, perhaps it could have been the same thing.

[jdavidson]

Peculiar looking animals