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Don’t you hate it when someone beats you to the buffet line?
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The only thing you can do is use your superior size to muscle out the competition.
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Or so I’ve heard.
The next two pictures aren’t the best quality…blame my zoom lens and our resident buck’s propensity for showing up at dusk…. but I thought someone might be interested to see the antler shedding process.
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One half gone, one to go. Talk about being lopsided.
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Right after the shed. What’s left are big boney bumps with an active blood flow.
It always looks painful to me, but I’m assured it’s not. Though how any anter-less naturalist can vouch for that I don’t know.
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River's world..... 
You get wild turkeys too? Amazing area you live in.
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We do. Although they poop often and everywhere… so my husband tends to chase them off.
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It’s like breaking or trimming a finger nail. It’s dead cells.
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Marvellous! I wonder if he dropped them around your place somewhere? You could make some art with that. A crystal/gemstone shop I used to frequent had a few as necklaces. But I don’t buy crystals anymore after a strange sort of interlude I had with one at Crystal Castle. https://www.crystalcastle.com.au/
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We always look in our woods but never find them.
Crystal Castle looks amazing!
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