Thread: Ouch

Originally Posted by Nickoli

My brother used to work at the venison works in Te Kawhata.... one day, a R3 hind happened to get out of the stock yards and run amok while someone managed to close the gates to the site. A group of staff cornered the poor thing, and it charged my brother who was holding a gate (while trying to herd it back into the yards). The panicked animal charged the gate my brother was holding - knocking him (all 180kg at the time...) on his arse.
When they eventually corralled the animal back into the yards, it keeled over and died of overheating/stress pretty quickly... There is no doubt that deer are hardy animals, but they are also more prone than other domesticated stock to stress and fright...

Reality is deer have been domesticated in NZ for tens of years whereas sheep/cattle etc have being domesticated for thousands of yours..they’ve got a wee bit of catching up to do. I’d also imagine that hind was in the works…cos she was a mad fucker…


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