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me and my grandpa were having a dissusion about when bucks get velvet. i saw a buck with velvet in illinois and i told my grandpa and he
didnt believe me. he said they get them in the fall. yet he saw a couple
of bucks with velvet the other day and he beileved me then. do u thank
it is natural for bucks to have velvet now.
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When antlers are in velvet they have blood vessels flowing in them and they are growing fron spring to fall, in fall the blood vessels dry up and they stop growing and they shed there velvet and become polished antlers or hard horned as some say.
Yes it is naturalfor a buck to havevelvet now. The whitetail deer's antlers will fall of in late winter to early spring. After this has happened, new antlers will start to grow with velvet over them (the process is listed above). The antlers will continue to grow into August, then will soon shed off the velvet and become the hard boned antler that we are accustomed to seeing. If a buck has velvet on its antlers past September it either suffered an injury or has some type of disease/abnormality.
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"My god Siman...............you just made me sick"
LOL! It's funny how much about deer is really misunderstood by so many people but to hear something like that from an ol' timer that actually hunts.... kind of odd??? [&:]
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An "archer" tries to see how far away he can get from his target and still connect, a BOWHUNTER tries to see how CLOSE he can get to his!
bucks with velvet
