Did the early warm weather start the bucks antler growth early this year? Saturday april 21I was driving in Bloomington IN, and I saw a dead buck on the side of the road with about 5 inches of antler coming from both sides of his head. And a guy that lives by my farm has a captive buck and its antlets are around 4 inches. I may be wrong but i thunk that it is awful early for that here in southern indiana.

havent seen any here in southerin wisconsin but i have heard of guys saying they saw bucks with 2-6 inches of growth.

I saw one laying dead on my trip thru Ohio last week that had 3 or 4 inches up already.Also alot of the sheds I've found have been laying out for a month or better because the wax ring that is around fresh sheds pedicles has been washed away.I also found one laying next to me feeder in early feb.

no the warm weather doesn't change when they start

Just seeing some nubs in wi on the road kills.