bucks with velvet
 

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.

RE: bucks with velvet
 

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.

RE: bucks with velvet
 

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.

RE: bucks with velvet
 

Definetly

RE: bucks with velvet
 

Im here in Nebraska and while out riding the 4wheeler i saw about 6 bucks with velvet. So yes its that time of year.

RE: bucks with velvet
 

yea its natural now then it will fall off in the fall

RE: bucks with velvet
 

YES THEY SHOULD HAVE VELVET NOW.

RE: bucks with velvet
 

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??? [&:]:D

RE: bucks with velvet
 

Tell your Gramps that this is a pic from this Tuesday. :)

RE: bucks with velvet
 

Here is one from last year in late August