Antler growth ends soon!

Sometime here shortly these boys will soon rub off their silky looking velvet. The antler will harden due to a lack of blood to the velvet. This lack of blood is due to a vessel that shuts off the flow. Soon after that a switch will go off in the deer and he will begin rubbing the velvet off. He will rub saplings, mature trees, and even cedar posts. All at the same time using this a boundary marker to let other bucks now this is his domain. These visual markings also are accompanied by scent left from glands on the head, legs, and feet. Thus bringing on the rut! Keep an eye out where you live. You may think you live in a no deer zone but its the rut that gets deer moving.