Big Yearling

So, I know this isn't a mule deer, but it's kinda interesting none the less (to me at least). I'm not even sure how I ran accross their website, but it's a whitetail deer farm in Michigan. They list pictures of all their bucks by age and then tell you what their B&C score is (like it even matters). So you can pretty much guess that I clicked on the oldest deer first just to see. So after looking at some monster farm raised deer in the 6+ year old range I decided to see what they were producing at 1 year old. This is what I saw

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Is this even possible for a yearling buck? I cant even imagine what kind of horemones and steroids are fed to these guys. Could you even imagine being in the field and seeing a yearling buck that big? Where I come from yearling bucks are spikes, or small 2 points if they get into some good feed.
I'm on the fence with the whole deer and elk farming thing, I dont think they deserve to be raised and exploited for their headgear, or pen-raised and then tied to a tree and shot by the highest bidder. Yet I believe that people should be allowed to raise and breed them the same as people can raise and breed cattle. However I have problems with some aspects/forms of cattle farming as well. Deer and elk are beutiful animals to look at, but i'd prefer to see them in the wild where they belong. Not penned up with tags in their ears. But to each their own......

The website: http://www.whitetailquest.com/buckslist.html
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My dad shot a big 2 point in thw kiabab 4 years ago and the biologist at the check point said it was a yearling but it was nothing even close to that.
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ridgetop
By the looks of it's face and boby size. I would guess older than yearling. Maybe 2 1/2 or 3 years old.
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NONYA
Not even possible,that deer is 4+,probably 7+
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killerbee
first off-- these type of places discust me :>/ but----- i had a hunter a few yrs back in new mexico that came and hunted with me for 3 yrs in a row. the first year he was telling me how he was going to buy a heard of elk to sell there horns to the japanese/chinese?? anyway the second year he came he had a bunch of pictures of his elk he had bought. he had bought bunch of preganent cows with 1 or 2 breeder bulls. the next year he brought pictures of what the calves had grown to be.he had yearling bulls that were 240-260"=/- 6 point bulls. they were not normal 6 points they were deffinatly goofy horned lots of them had a ton of non-typicle growth etc.. he fed them tons of hormons and steroids to get them to grow like that.
i dont think this buck is a yearling but i dont think he is over 3 yrs old either. BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER THEY ARE JUST MOO COWS!! and how anyone would get a kick out of shooting one of these is beyond me :>/ :>/
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79Ford
"killerbee" wrote:THEY ARE JUST MOO COWS!!
My thoughts exactly KB, and to raise these animals and then exploit their B&C score to not only sell their viles to other deer farmers, but to also mount their sheds and sell them. These deer are big, but i'm sorry, it's no trophy.

FIY that deer is named Grizzly, he scores 218 6/8" and was born on May 25 2006. So he'd be 2 years old now, but since they havent shed their velvet yet this year that pic would be his 1st year pic.
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If only it was true they could be that big (in body mass and antler mass) but that buck looks a lot older than a yearling.
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TheGreatwhitehunter
:-k no way that deer is a yearling
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I have trouble believing that. more pics needed to determine age.
Although I have always been curious about Chemicially enhanced yearlings.
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