I copied this from another forum. It was originally posted by Michael Schlaebach of LaGrange.
This is his first hand account. He didn't mention where the teeth were sent for the testing.
Just had one of my ranches bring in a deer and the ranch manager was talking about 5 teeth he sent off. He had been planning on doing this little experiment and knew which cull deer teeth he would send off.....it was 5 deer that he knew the EXACT age of since they had been born and tagged at the ranch.
They put the deer down, extracted the teeth and sent them off. 4 out of the five deer came back to be aged anywhere from a year to 2 years above their actual age. Only one deer actually matched it's correct age through the tooth ring information sent back.
This is his first hand account. He didn't mention where the teeth were sent for the testing.
Just had one of my ranches bring in a deer and the ranch manager was talking about 5 teeth he sent off. He had been planning on doing this little experiment and knew which cull deer teeth he would send off.....it was 5 deer that he knew the EXACT age of since they had been born and tagged at the ranch.
They put the deer down, extracted the teeth and sent them off. 4 out of the five deer came back to be aged anywhere from a year to 2 years above their actual age. Only one deer actually matched it's correct age through the tooth ring information sent back.
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