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During the late fall early winter months, deer velvet grows.
At the base of each antler is a ring, and that ring controls whether blood is allowed to flow into the antlers. This blood flow determines whether the antlers grow or not.
The blood flows into the antler and supplies vitamins and minerals needed for the deer to grow bigger antlers, and since the blood needs a cover, velvet is formed around the blood vessels. When the antlers receive enough vitamins and minerals, the ring at the base of the antler cuts off the blood flow, causing the velvet to dry out, shrivel up, and fall off.
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What is the fur on the antlers called?
Fuzz on deer antlers are called velvet.
When do white tail deer shed their velvet?
Whitetails shed their velvet in fall
What is velvet deer antler for?
Deer antlers are made from bone. The velvet on the outside of the antlers carries the blood vessels to the antlers while they are growing. When they have grown to full maturity, the velvet dies and falls off.
Substance that covers a deer antler when it is growing?
Velvet.
How does the deer lose the velvet off his antlers?
By rubbing them off trees bark or in the duel with another deer
Is deer velvet a steroid?
No. Deer velvet is merely a special thin layer of skin that grows on antlers during their growth period before being shedded prior to the rutting or mating season.
What part of deer is covered in velvet?
The antlers. It is shed by the deer rubbing against something rough - or by fighting with their peers.
What is the name given to the substance that covers a deer's antler when it is growing?
velvet
Do they bleed when they shed their velvet?
If by they, you mean deer, then yes. Velvet covers deer's antlers and feeds the antlers the vitamins and minerals it needs to grow. There is a base at the base of each antler, and when the antlers have received enough vitamins and minerals, the base cuts off the blood flow to the antlers, causing the velvet to dry out, shrivel up, and fall off. The velvet is itchy, so the deer rub up against trees and such to help get the velvet off. Basically the only reason the deer's antler's bleed is because the blood may not be fully cut off and the deer still find it itchy so they try to scratch it off themselves.
What are the crops growen by caribs?
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The name of what fabric is also the name of the soft vascular skin that nourishes the developing antlers of the deer?
velvet
The name of what fabric is also the name of the soft vascular skin that nourishes the developing antlers of deer?
velvet
