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Our weirdo resident buck never lost his antlers this winter.
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And in all the decades we’ve been hosting backyard deer, that’s never happened.
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Makes me wonder why…
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And hope nothing is wrong.
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It looks rather painful.
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They stomp at us all the time.
I’ve spoken deer for years…
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River's world..... 
Give him time, Rg. A nature site I looked at says bucks can shed their anters past the middle of April. Your buck must be a “late shedder.” 🤣🤣
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Interesting.
We’ve seen them with antlers into January, even February. But never late March.
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Ooh, I hope he’s ok, too.
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It’s odd, but I’m hoping normal.
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Maybe he is replacing the groundhog as a sign of continued winter?
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Could be, we had another snow storm the other day…
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I’ve had only one stomp at me and start walking toward me.
He won.
I went in the house!
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Ours get used to us putting out the food. They’ll run a little, turn around and stomp just to show us who’s boss.
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LOL I can just picture that!!
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The deer in my sister’s yard will stomp at her cat. Her cat ignores this and continues trying to make friends.
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We had a cat who used to wait for the deer and then chase them off. Funniest thing ever.
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Wow, those antlers and his look almost look too perfect a picture. If only they could tell stories….
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I’m sure he has a few good ones on evading hunters.
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I was treated to seven mule deer this morning. One was eating the bottlebrush. Most were munching on jojoba behind our fence. Not one antler in site, but five adults and two young deer.
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Not the bottlebrush blooms!
Bad mule deer.
Bad!
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No kidding!
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When I was living in Minnesota we had a buck who would regularly invaded our bird feeder (he actually broke one by hitting it and shaking the seeds out) and who also had these weird looking antlers. It bugged me to see his twisty antlers every morning, so I called the state office of wildlife and asked if they knew what caused this. (This was pre-internet, pre-Google, so we actually had to call for information on our landline.) The patient man who answered said there was a kind of bone disease that causes the antlers to break off and grow in unnatural directions, kind of like toenail virus except on horns. He said it didn’t bother the deer, but if the antlers started curling in towards the face and particularly the eyes and mouth, we (my intensely curious kids and I) should call again and they’d send a couple of field workers to catch the deer and saw them off. Otherwise, let nature take its course, which sounds terrible: but the wildlife expert said there were plenty of deer who didn’t have helpful humans watching after them and who lived with the condition…until they didn’t. Nature isn’t always nice.
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That’s interesting. Thanks for doing the research… and caring enough to talk to an actual human.
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