Dead Deer in the Pasture

[Curmudgeon]

I was walking around the frog pond last evening when I noticed a large dead animal in the pasture with the sheep. Its belly was facing me. It was bloated, in the long grass it looked white with its legs pointing up. I thought it was a sheep. It was actually a buck with 2 broken front legs. After several hot days, it was really nasty. It was close by but we couldn't smell it because it was NE - down wind or cross wind - of the house. I had smelled it when I was out on the road but couldn't figure out what it was.

 

This deer must have gotten hit by a car. Amazingly, it got about 30 yards off the road after climbing a bank about 8' in elevation and jumping a 39" sheep fence. Removing it from the pasture was nasty.