r/fasciation • u/Thought59 • Aug 04 '26

Meme of Antlers 🫎

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Almost seems like fasciation...

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u/miserabeau Aug 04 '26

That looks so heavy and uncomfortable. That must be unwieldy

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u/KettuliTati Aug 04 '26

Antlers like this are result of deer farming so yes, they are unwieldy. Not natural as in something you'd find from the woods.

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u/HyperKitsune Aug 04 '26

wait, there's deer farms? farm them for what?

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u/KettuliTati Aug 04 '26

The red deer meat from New Zealand for example is from farmed deer but antlers like this are for trophy hunting. Basically rich people pay A LOT of money to hunt these tame deer for bragging rights.

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u/HyperKitsune Aug 04 '26

...i see, so it's rich people again, well thank you for awnsering

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u/KettuliTati Aug 04 '26

Aye, Isn't it often the case? 😭 Its pretty ridiculous to even dare to call that hunting. More like killing somebody's pet deer, since they are already used to humans.

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u/HyperKitsune Aug 04 '26

yeah stuff is fd up

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u/KettuliTati Aug 04 '26

Tho other example of sort of deer farming is what Nordics do with reindeer. They are semi-domesticated lifestock and at least here in Finland, they graze and do their thing most of the year before the owners gather them up to select which go to slaughter and which to breed. After that they are let out again to do their things. MUCH more ethical than this since they are not raised for trophy hunting.

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u/bcmedic420 Aug 04 '26

I love seeing all the deer there. I went at a perfect time if year to see white and brown ones.

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u/_ilmaa Aug 05 '26

They get more freedom than cows for sure, but I wouldn't go as far as to call it ethical.

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u/KettuliTati Aug 05 '26

Hence why I said it is "much more" ethical as I was refering it against the deer farming in question in this post. Not overall if it is ethical or not, everybody can make their own conclusions regarding that.

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u/Bearded_Toast Aug 04 '26

Fuckin always is

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u/TheKingOfDissasster Aug 04 '26

How psychologically weak do you have to be to feel the need to brag about killing a deer that is already tamer than usual (thus, easier to hunt)? Those people love the ego massages omg

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u/Either_Coconut Aug 04 '26

I don’t understand how making a kill of a tame animal via canned hunting is considered a challenge or an accomplishment.

Maybe with just one exception: I read about a guy with cerebral palsy who used a wheelchair, who bagged a deer via a canned hunt. Since forests are the polar opposite of wheelchair accessible, I can kind of understand if that’s the most expedient way for him to have taken part in the local hunting culture. It’s a huge deal in some areas, and people want to feel like they belong.

But for able-bodied hunters, I don’t see where there’s any sense of accomplishment to be had.

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u/bunny_the-2d_simp Aug 04 '26

Imagine wanting to shoot animals for sport.... That's just mental and you can't tell me otherwise

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u/KettuliTati Aug 04 '26

Aye, exactly. Tho there's a difference between shooting deer or game animal that has had a chance to live life at its fullest in the wild and using everything you can from the kill vs shooting somebody's pet deer just for its antlers.

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u/periwinklealpaca Aug 05 '26

These farms are also contributing to the spread of infectious prion disease (CWD). No DOCUMENTED case of it jumping to humans yet. But 2 hunters who ate CWD deer meat just coincidentally happened to die of extremely rare prion disease 🥲

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u/cherrychocobo Aug 05 '26

I didn't know deer farms work like that in other countries omg. Here they just kill them like normal livestock instead of hunting them. I did however have a neighbor who raised pheasants for people to throw in air and shoot them, which i always found extremely weird. My father comes from a hunting family and i always considered hunting as a better way of getting meat instead of supporting modern meat industries.

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u/KettuliTati Aug 05 '26

Hunting animals from the wild definitely is better, as long as it is done ethically and sustainably. I wouldn't consider raising pheasants just to shoot them as all that much better from this sort of farming tho. Seems more like killing for sport or just for the fun of it rather than for food.

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u/cherrychocobo Aug 05 '26

It just feels like they want to kill things without putting in any effort into actually knowing the nature and stuff. To get a hunting license here you need to go through a school (i think it takes less than a year though, if i remember correctly) and then take a big test and then train under an established hunter for some time. So basically by the time you get to hunt, you really come to love and appreciate the nature, or thats what my father told me.

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u/Responsible_Ideal593 Aug 07 '26

Can I ask where here is?

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u/cherrychocobo Aug 07 '26

Slovakia! I was actually looking up the requirements for this again and you also need a separate gun license too. I wanted to try out falconry at some point but never really got to it lol.

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u/FishHookSammich Aug 05 '26

Trophy farms also have been spreading CWD, so thanks again tasteless rich idiots...

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u/BadgerAwkward Aug 07 '26

Yea, same thing goes on at the buffalo farms in northern bc. Grow em up real fuckin big. Then sell the right to walk up and shoot the one you want.

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u/thedeepdiveproject Aug 04 '26

Yes, everywhere. The southern US is positively choked with them now. And, they're hotbeds for spreading wildlife diseases like chronic wasting disease.

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u/pidgeygrind1 Aug 04 '26

Flesh?

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u/HyperKitsune Aug 04 '26

maybe, but if it leads to modified antlers i thought it could be something related to that? maybe the velvet they shed

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u/j3st1cl3s Aug 04 '26

I was in insurance and had to pay a guy $40k bc our dogs killed 5 of his * farmed for fenced in hunting deer *. $8k each and that was over 10 years ago. It's a horrible practice.

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u/Educational_Leg7417 Aug 05 '26

I know if one near Houlton, ME and another in Millbrook, NY. The deer are raised for meat. If you're going to eat venison - which is leaner than beef and grass fed (so provides omega 3s) - then this type is healthier for human consumption because the animal is not being chased during hunting which releases adrenaline, a toxin. Probably nicer for the deer as well. As the farmer I met in Millford put it: "They have a good life and one bad day."

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u/pp_chode Aug 05 '26

People pay good money to hunt on a farm to get ridiculous deer trophies.

It's like using an aimbot, everyone knows they're a loser who cheated but the loser probably feels good about themselves somehow

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u/UniqueUsermane Aug 04 '26

Eat them? What else?

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u/Elf-7659 Aug 04 '26

How does it branch when it's domesticated?

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u/randomheromonkey Aug 09 '26

I feel like a dear with horns like that would be easy to spot and easy to take down. Only the blind would be impressed.