what grows a nontypical buck ?

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i was wondering what factors grow a nontypical buck ?
i was thinking a buck that gets to grow up to an older age ?
i was thinking maybe a buck that jumps a fence and rips its balls or testicales on the bobwire grows a cactus buck or nontypical?
i was also thinking an injuring through fighting?
i was thinking maybe a rip to the stomach on the fence .
what do you guys think grows a cactus nontypical buck ?
 
i was wondering what factors grow a nontypical buck ?
i was thinking a buck that gets to grow up to an older age ?
i was thinking maybe a buck that jumps a fence and rips its balls or testicales on the bobwire grows a cactus buck or nontypical?
i was also thinking an injuring through fighting?
i was thinking maybe a rip to the stomach on the fence .
what do you guys think grows a cactus nontypical buck ?
I remember the old timers talking one night around the campfire about cactus bucks. The consensus was that older bucks would bite the testicales off of young bucks and that’s what created those cactus looking formations. I don’t know..
 
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Many things go into antler development of nontypical antler development. Of course genetics can be part of it. Age influences it also. Very often antler development is altered by injury to the deer itself. This can be injury to an antler during development, injury to an antler pedicle at any time, or even an injury to a deer's body.

Antler development, growth, and shedding is driven by wide shifts in testosterone production. "Cactus " bucks are most commonly caused by deer that have abnormal testicles, missing testicles, or damaged testicles. But typically they have an interrupted or nonexistent testosterone cycle.
 
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This is a good book that can aid you in your quest for knowledge.

Many things go into antler development of nontypical antler development. Of course genetics can be part of it. Age influences it also. Very often antler development is altered by injury to the deer itself. This can be injury to an antler during development, injury to an antler pedicle at any time, or even an injury to a deer's body.

Antler development, growth, and shedding is driven by wide shifts in testosterone production. "Cactus " bucks are most commonly caused by deer that have abnormal testicles, missing testicles, or damaged testicles. But typically they have an interrupted or nonexistent testosterone cycle.
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This is a good book that can aid you in your quest for knowledge.

Many things go into antler development of nontypical antler development. Of course genetics can be part of it. Age influences it also. Very often antler development is altered by injury to the deer itself. This can be injury to an antler during development, injury to an antler pedicle at any time, or even an injury to a deer's body.

Antler development, growth, and shedding is driven by wide shifts in testosterone production. "Cactus " bucks are most commonly caused by deer that have abnormal testicles, missing testicles, or damaged testicles. But typically they have an interrupted or nonexistent testosterone cycle.
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A lot probably has to do with genetic abnormalities. For example, this buck is a 3x6x6 main beamed deer. Also, I have seen deer with corkscrewed-looking antler growth from lack of selenium in the diet. Also, a lot of weird-looking cactus bucks from injury to or poor development of sex organs.

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Mr. Pete, do you have any other pictures of this deer from different angles?

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I don't. I did capture a brief clip of him on video and incorporated it into my "Forky Pete video" dvd's which I do. PM me your mailing address- I'll send the video for you to check out.
 
Usually more than two pedicles on a deer is a result of trauma and the skull healing. The right pedicle of this buck definitely has the look of being traumatized, but I have never seen a third pedicle originate as far back on the head as that one appears to originate. Definitely a very unique buck.
 
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This is a good book that can aid you in your quest for knowledge.

Many things go into antler development of nontypical antler development. Of course genetics can be part of it. Age influences it also. Very often antler development is altered by injury to the deer itself. This can be injury to an antler during development, injury to an antler pedicle at any time, or even an injury to a deer's body.

Antler development, growth, and shedding is driven by wide shifts in testosterone production. "Cactus " bucks are most commonly caused by deer that have abnormal testicles, missing testicles, or damaged testicles. But typically they have an interrupted or nonexistent testosterone cycle.
Please tell us more about deer testicles!

Do corn piles ever come in to the non typical equation?
 
I heard from a breeder that inbreeding creates the trashy non typical racks. They bred whitetails in the midwest and sold em to deer farms (not a fan of that industry). Free range hunting only here. They claimed water quality was very important.
 

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