He shouldn't have had "domesticated" deer anyway. This raising deer for trophy quality antlers like cattle kind of degrades deer hunting.

I was told in South Africa that farmers had been known to hand raise Blade Wildebeests and that when they got older and territorial they, having no fear of man, would kill trespassers. Maybe a similar thing is true with deer.

A friend of mine in the 8th grade went to his granparents deer farm and was attacked by one of the bucks. Broken ribs holes in is lungs ect real messed him up.

Bucks, bulls, stallons ect are nothing to monkey around with.

rom my experience, ALL wild hoof stock, especially the males, if hand raised or confined in close captive situations become incredibly dangerous.

The completely lose all fear of humans and instead regard them as rivals. Many folks over the years have been killed by hand raised "wild" hoof stock.

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Originally posted by Crazyhorseconsulting:
rom my experience, ALL wild hoof stock, especially the males, if hand raised or confined in close captive situations become incredibly dangerous.

The completely lose all fear of humans and instead regard them as rivals. Many folks over the years have been killed by hand raised "wild" hoof stock.

I wouldn't go in a pasture to pet the resident angus bull either.

Factoid: The most dangerous animal in America is the dairy bull. More killings, more injuries than any other animal, domestic or wild.

I heard somewhere that Jerseys were the worst!

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Originally posted by wasbeeman:
Factoid: The most dangerous animal in America is the dairy bull. More killings, more injuries than any other animal, domestic or wild.

Not quite, according to the most recent list I could find. It was for 2008 and is interestingly as follows:

Average Number of Deaths per Year in the U.S

53 - Bee/Wasp
31 - Dogs
20 - Horse
3 - Bull
6.5 - Spider
5.5 - Rattlesnake
1 - Mt. Lion
1 - Shark
.5 - Bear
.5 - Scorpion
.5 - Centipede
.3 - Alligator
.25 - Elephant
.1 - Wolf

(Worldwide, what is tops of the list and results in more human deaths than hippos, elephants, snakes, scorpions, lions, sharks and all of the other worldwide top ten killers? (and weighs less than a postage stamp? - yup - mosquito).

The mozzie itself doesn't kill you, it's just the messenger for a whole host of deadly diseases and parasites.

I bet wolves move up on that list in the near future!

David Hanlin, a Weatherby Award winner with whom I wrote his "Around the World and Then Some," died this summer and is in that No. 1 category. After hunting in more than a 100 countries, he died from a bee sting near his home in Erie, PA.

Bill Quimby

Domestic animals kill people because People get really stupid around them, in nicer terms complacency. In the spirit of the OP however, hand raised males of what is NORMALLY considered a wild species of hoof stock are dangerous.

As far as numbers of human deaths the various insects are the winners.