simonm Posted October 21, 2017 Report Share Posted October 21, 2017 I found a severed deer's head up at the fields where my wife keeps horses today. No sign of the rest of it! I'm fairly sure it was a smallish roe deer but I just wondered what might have done it as I thought they didn't really have any natural predators? Thanks 😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumpy22 Posted October 21, 2017 Report Share Posted October 21, 2017 human Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tetlee Posted October 21, 2017 Report Share Posted October 21, 2017 Poachers possibly. Somewhere nearby may have been the lower legs. Deer, even a little Roe goes in a car boot easier minus his head and lower legs... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonm Posted October 21, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2017 I did think this but then thought maybe I was over reacting! I did also wonder if it could have been caught by a combine during harvest but the field next door was cut a while ago now and I know the head has only been there a week or so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesj Posted October 21, 2017 Report Share Posted October 21, 2017 could have been dragged from a dead pit by fox or badger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumpy22 Posted October 21, 2017 Report Share Posted October 21, 2017 leftovers of a hunt or poaching trip. once gralloched head, legs removed and discarded of .believe it or not, a lot of people do not dig a hole and bury the remains as are suggested by the organisations. most are put in the hedge for nature to clean and sometimes move Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tetlee Posted October 21, 2017 Report Share Posted October 21, 2017 There was a spate locally of heads, legs and even guts appearing in hedgerows. Eventually someone got spotted on CCTV crossing the railway line with a black plastic bin bag. Railway cops pounced and found a bloke with a Headless/legless Roe on the way to a car parked nearby. That's what made me suggest Poachers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dougy Posted October 21, 2017 Report Share Posted October 21, 2017 Â Possibly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tetlee Posted October 21, 2017 Report Share Posted October 21, 2017 Must be British Airways...looks like a dear flight.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigbob Posted October 21, 2017 Report Share Posted October 21, 2017 Does the head look like its been cleanly cut off at the bend of the neck ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonm Posted October 21, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2017 Does the head look like its been cleanly cut off at the bend of the neck ?Cleanly cut at the base of the skull Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hendrix's rifle Posted October 21, 2017 Report Share Posted October 21, 2017 Cleanly cut at the base of the skull Poacher most likely Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumpy22 Posted October 21, 2017 Report Share Posted October 21, 2017 Cleanly cut at the base of the skull atlas joint Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice! Posted October 21, 2017 Report Share Posted October 21, 2017 Poachers, my old dog once brought one back to the mother in law, she wasn't best pleased and it wasn't far from the public footpath, I mentioned this in the local pub, saying how she was reporting it to the wildlife officer. Did this to spread the word to the lazy sod who didn't burry or care who found bits of dead deer in the woods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danger-Mouse Posted October 21, 2017 Report Share Posted October 21, 2017 Fox ninja  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonm Posted October 21, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2017 Thanks for all the replies I'll look into the fox ninja Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moose man Posted October 22, 2017 Report Share Posted October 22, 2017 Was it male or female ? Male it could well be that someone has taken the head and feet of while gralloching and perfectly legal , females aren't yet in season so it would be poached , shot or coursed ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonm Posted October 22, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2017 I assumed female as no antlers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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