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Texas John

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have one buck fawn that has developed very pronounced nubs.





Another has only small "bumps". This one is the older of the two.



I thought that fawns did not develop horns????? Is this normal?:confused:
 
I have had a couple of this years buck fawns that have had nubs for about 2 to 3 weeks already. That said I don't put much weight on what the nubs look like on fawns. When our buck Updraft was a fawn he had a nice looking body on him, but I don't recall any nubs that looked special at all. Then as a yearling he had a pretty decent rack scoring 168"@1. But this year at age 2 is when he really came on. He is estimated to score between 240" and 255" depending on who looks at him.

And we have had some in the past that had actual spikes by mid November and they weren't anything extra special in the end.

It is fun to see nubs on the little guys though.
 
I apologize for calling them horns!

I'll wash my mouth out with soap - beat my back with wet noodles - and repeat antlers 500 times - OK?
 
I have had fawns with 2"-3" nubs before. Funny thing is they rarely rub them out, rather they appear to become part of the base the following growing season.
 
Appreciate the info.

I know it's genetics; however, the one with the bigger nubs is definitely brown. The other is definitely reddish.

The one with the smaller nubs is the larger of the two.
 
Picken ain't no problem! I've been known to do it too (so my wife says).

naturally I sorta think she may be slightly biased or upset cause her "to do" list for me is getting longer. I try to work off one item on the list a month, but sometimes I just don't get er done.

I got real good reasons for my apparant delay - naps interfere with her list.

Now naps are very necessary and I highly recommend a good nap for everyone; especially those of us with really big "to do" lists.
 
our buttons almost always rub out and you can eevn see the void when they loose them.



2 yrs ago I even bound one of the bottons that was dropped..
 
last year i had a bottlefed buck get polished buttons, they were probably only 3/4" long, one day in Febuary i was petting his head and one fell off in my hand, it was funny because his pedicles looked just like any of my older shed out bucks,they even bled after they fell off. Most of my buttons get polished antlers every year and they are shed off by March, just like the bigger guys.
 
Drooling over big buck pictures is known to me as "hornography" and should probably be limited at work. It just has a better ring to it than "antlerography", wouldn't you agree?
 
I had to cut antlers on two buck fawns this morning. I was afraid they might hurt the other fawns. LOL
 
While I agree with a better ring - my mouth still tastes of soap from washing it out due to using a similar term.

I suppose that "pointed-thing-ography" is acceptable???

or how bout "thing-a-ma-jig-ography"?

Drooling is definitely an OK term, cause I think we all drool when seeing a really good "thing-a-ma-jig".
 
I think we all have the addiction. But i think horn-**** sound better than antler-****.
 
Well I suppose that our addiction to larger racks is a form of ****. Never thought of it that way!
 

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