ABOUT DEER ANTLER CYCLES
Antlers are dropped, or cast, and grow back over a period of months while covered in a furry skin called velvet. When growth is complete the velvet is rubbed off and the antler is described as clean. Older animals tend to cast and clean their antlers first.
The table below is a general guide to the timing of this process though it is difficult to be precise.
Antlers cast
Antlers in velvet
Antlers clean
* As muntjac can breed all year round, you may see immature bucks in velvet or bearing clean antlers outside these dates.
