need help

[stickbender]

have any of you seen anything like this
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v438/stickbender/head7.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v438/stickbender/head6.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v438/stickbender/head5.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v438/stickbender/head4.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v438/stickbender/head3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v438/stickbender/head2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v438/stickbender/100_1215.jpg[/url]

[Glenn]

That's one gnarly looking head Stickbender, maybe he was damaged early in the development stage of the antlers but normally from what I've seen the antlers don't grow above the damage...Glenn...

[Barry]

EEEEEWWWWWWW.....

[jason]

gee stickbender you are a barstard picking on the disabled like that :lol:
Be interesting to know if he had been like that every year, have you found any cast antlers.

[adam]

Looks to me by the bottom form before the mushroom that this guy was getting a third branch on his antler. And his been rubbing it off in velvet. But thats a big guess.

[adam]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v438/stickbender/head2.jpg

[Reece]

Antler cancer?

[jindydiver]

Yes, I agree with reece, it looks like a bone cancer. I might see if a fellow I know who owns a deer farm can tell us.

[Barry]

Very interesting thread. It definately looks like antler cancer to me, possibly one of the new points developed the cancer and grew like this....

[stickbender]

it comes of the back off the beam so i don't think it was a point .
i shot this on a deer farm and the farmer told me that this is the first time he has seen anything like this.
this is the 3rd head and the 2 before were ok no growth on them at all

[HOOD]

That looks gross, but very interesting at the same time would be nice to know how or what happened to make it grow like that.

Hood 8)