Do deer drop their antlers on a yearly basis

Question

If not, what do they do with their antlers, like, do they shed, or what?

Answer 1

White tails and mule deer do.  

In fact, antler tissue is the fastest growing mammal tissue known, and scientists are using it in research for human medical applications.

Answer 2

All members of the Deer family (whitetail deer, blacktail deer, moose, elk, caribou, mule deer, etc.) drop their antlers each and every year. That is in fact one of the defining features that divide antlers from horns.

Answer 3

Yes, in the early spring just before their new antlers start to grow they shed last years " Bone "

Answer 4

yes. they are shed, kind of like molting

Answer 5

Yep

Answer 6

moose and elk also drop them

Answer 7

Yes they do every year!*

Answer 8

Yes they do shed them each year - moose and elk too. What is interesting is that goats, horned sheep and cattle do not.

Answer 9

YES primarily in the months of December, January, February, and March.** Then porcupines eat the antlers if you don't find them before they do.*

Answer 10

yea every year they just come off

Answer 11

they sure do

Answer 12

Yes every year.

Answer 13

yep they fall off every year

deer horns are the fastest growing bone known to science

Answer 14

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