#2058358 - 09/05/10 02:40 PM
Re: velvet shed
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Food Plot- Not every one. I got a picture taken three days ago of a 160 class that had shed his.
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#2058708 - 09/05/10 09:58 PM
Re: velvet shed
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checked my camera today and had 2 new bucks i havent gotten pics of this year the biggest was a 4 by 2 with velvet and he was with a 5pt with no velvet except for a lil strip hanging from the tip of his beam and a 4pt that i have several pics of with no velvet at all. BSK the 4 pt is a 1 by 3 and just has one big spike on the right and 3 normal pts on the left and the bigger 6pt has one big spike on the right with a browtine and the left side has 4 normal points. could this be genetic and maybe be father and son? i have never seen both of them together at the same time and the 6 has just showed up in the last few days and the smaller one has been on my camera a few times.??
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#2059070 - 09/06/10 10:33 AM
Re: velvet shed
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BSK the 4 pt is a 1 by 3 and just has one big spike on the right and 3 normal pts on the left and the bigger 6pt has one big spike on the right with a browtine and the left side has 4 normal points. could this be genetic and maybe be father and son?
Doubtful that it is genetic. Major differences from one side to the other--especially spike-on-one-side anomolies--are almost always injury induced.
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#2059505 - 09/06/10 06:32 PM
Re: velvet shed
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Wow, the week of sept 21 thru 29th is the week here in middle Tn on the alabama line.
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#2061309 - 09/07/10 08:40 PM
Re: velvet shed
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have a 6 point show up that i have 3 days worth of pics of in velvet but this morning he only had a strip hanging off.also had a friend tell me he was squirrel hunting this weekend and found 4 green rubs on trees as big as your arm.he said that he looked for velvet but the ants must have got it but i told him that i thought that i had read that some deer eat there velvet that they strip off? any one know?
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#2061823 - 09/08/10 07:51 AM
Re: velvet shed
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Bucks often eat the velvet to regain the minerals/nutrients from the velvet. Does often eat their afterbirth for the same reason.
Most bucks don't even "rub off" the velvet. It just falls off all on its own.
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#2061871 - 09/08/10 08:20 AM
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Bucks often eat the velvet to regain the minerals/nutrients from the velvet. Does often eat their afterbirth for the same reason.
Most bucks don't even "rub off" the velvet. It just falls off all on its own.
Exactly, I have actually saw one shaking and swinging a strip of loose velvet and actually pulled it free with his mouth and ate it, very cool to watch!
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#2063890 - 09/09/10 03:52 PM
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I have wondered how them bucks in the plains cleaned there antlers so good without a tree in the country.
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#2063894 - 09/09/10 03:54 PM
Re: velvet shed
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I have wondered how them bucks in the plains cleaned there antlers so good without a tree in the country.
Bucks rarely rub the velvet off. It just falls off all on its own, and fairly quickly. The idea that rubs on trees are caused by bucks rubbing off velvet is an old wive's tale. They may thrash a shrub to help pull off velvet, but a true rub--where the tree is rubbed down below the bark--is another thing entirely.
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