Is this whitetail a hermaphrodite?

[QuackingBuck]

So I've had this deer on one of my parcels of land for at least the past 5 years(I have trail camera pictures dating back to 2019). I've never seen her/him during the day as 99% of the pictures I have are right around midnight. I did, however, have her come through last night right after 5:00 pm so I know she's still alive. I found one of it's sheds that I'm assuming is 2-3 years old. I'm curious what you guys think it is? True Hermaphrodite or pseudohermaphrodite?

 

[Lucafu1]

I thought does that grew antlers would always be covered in velvet and never turn hard?

[wildwoody]

Creepy..

[QuackingBuck]

On 11/5/2024 at 1:37 PM, Lucafu1 said:

I thought does that grew antlers would always be covered in velvet and never turn hard?

I mean thats what I thought. Maybe I'm wrong and its a stag buck.

[jdown]

I can only offer one personal experience - In the way back machine and when a 3-9x bushnell served as both binoculars and scope I shot a big bodied and big framed md (at the time thinking it had to be a nice 4x with that frame and mass I was seeing) - well the mass turned out to be full velvet (Late Oct) and he was 2X1 with some extra trash at the eye guards.  After watching 3 other (what I'm sure were actually nicer bucks) take off after the shot and I turned him over he had 6 nipples, 1 rock hard marble for a nut and pecker. I assumed he got his pair caught in the fence some time or damage when he was a fawn - I don't know but yes full velvet for that guy/gal...