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Is deer velvet a steroid

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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.

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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


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.


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


What is the meaning of velvet?

A silk fabric, having a short, close nap of erect threads. Inferior qualities are made with a silk pile on a cotton or linen back., The soft and highly vascular deciduous skin which envelops and nourishes the antlers of deer during their rapid growth., Made of velvet; soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety., To pain velvet., To make like, or cover with, velvet.


Is velvet a noun?

Yes, the noun 'velvet' is a concrete noun; a word for a fine soft fabric with short raised pile; a word for the soft covering growth of the developing antler of a deer; a word for a physical thing.