Thank you, Paul! I’ve learned something new from you! I’d not heard of rickets. Google seems to focus on young animals at a quick glance. Is this something you think this bull may have had since being young? I don’t know anything about the ratios you mentioned. If this bloke can last until the rains come, it might get a little easier. But I think he’s at that age where he’s deteriorating every day. He appears to have only days, weeks or months at best.
Paul, I’ve hunted buffalo from Douglas River to Wilton River, and the Roper River and Katherine River and Waterhouse River, and there is a mystery in a little area right here, a health mystery. In a small radius of twenty kilometres I’ve killed four sick young buffalo with at least one scissor hoof; I’ve killed a tremendous old bull with three-and-a-half legs (his rear right kind-of ended at the “knee” with a deformed little hoof growing out of it - this leg was completely useless, bearing no weight, never touching the ground, and just dangling); and I’ve seen a sickly, limping young bull with a deformed, strange-looking face, a kind-of massive hump of a Roman nose, very unsettling and weird. I’ve not encountered such strange things elsewhere, and it’s been confined to this one area. I’m happy to report that the majority seem normal and healthy!