Don’t get excited, I’m talking about deer antlers.

 

 

And as I was filtering through my hundreds of shots of our buck the other day….

 

 

I thought some of you city people might get a kick out of this.

 

 

After the fall rut….. (read: deer orgy, where size does matter) ….. the buck will drop his then useless horns.

It’s a slow process that sometimes takes all winter. The blood supply is cut off and they slowly loosen. You often see bucks with one side hanging crookedly… and they’ll rub against trees, fence posts, picnic tables or whatever is around to knock them off.

When this happens, it does look a little bizarre.

 

 

And painful, though they assure me it’s not.

 

 

But how do the proverbial ‘they’ know?

I doubt anything has fallen off of them lately.

 

 

It certainly doesn’t look like fun to me.