You're making the assumption that exposure to insecticides is the ONLY reason a ruminant can have underdeveloped facial bones, and that there are no individuals who could be more or less susceptible to its effects. Those are both huge, and likely incorrect, assumptions.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if she is a miniature and damn close to fully grown. She just doesn't have the "infant" look.
Perhaps I'll halter break her and Craig's her...
Lil better pic of tail.
Yeah, with that pic I'll backtrack and say she's younger than my first impression. Odd shaped head, long with such a small muzzle.
Agree. Long face too. I could not find any horn buds either while bottling her.
Purebred Heinz 57...
That one in the middle could ALMOST pass for a future pic!
You posted her and that white face with them ears reminded me of mine. So agree, it could almost pass as a future pic. I like how you always have some type of project going on.lol
There were only two reports in the scientific literature about deer fawns with an underbite prior to 1995. One study in Michigan in 1969 looked at 36,000 hunter killed deer for underbite and didn't find one deer with underbite. I grew up on a ranch and we never had any grazing animal or other animal born with an underbite. The insecticide imidacloprid began being used in western states in 1994 and the next spring multiple newborns of various species, wild and domestic, including birds began being born with an underbite. Obviously, since all newborns do not have an underbite, there are individuals who are less susceptible to the effects of the toxins. I did not say either of those things you said I did. Lots of cattle have from 100 ppb to 300 ppb of imidacloprid in their spleens, but the prevalence of underbite in cattle is likely lower than the prevalence of cattle with those high levels of imidacloprid. The white-tailed deer tested have around 10 ppb of imidacloprid in their spleens, but deer fawns appear to have a higher prevalence of underbite than cattle. That suggests that deer are more susceptible to imidacloprid effects than cattle. Some ranchers here in our area had a fairly high prevalence of underbite in the early 2000s at around 30 to 33 percent. I don't know cattle prevalence now.
I bet he was adorbs.lol I wondered what the lag was like on the online bidding. Ill watch occasionally but i do not need another way to bid.
i always hear at el reno, them taking internet bids but auctioneer has a computer right next to him he looks at.
Uh oh-someone failing as a mom?
