still in velvet

[bunwell wood shoot 2]

Nearly mid july and still seeing really good muntjac but still in full velvet I could understand youngsters but these are really good animals. Anyone seeing the same?

 

Mark

[Squirrel_Basher 17,102]

The way i see it is this .Munties dont have a set season for velvet /shedding as it depends when they were born .As you know they are born all year round so why not be in velvet at different times to the rest .No doubt someone with more experience of these little darlings will decry this but thats my take anyway as i see them in velvet all year round .

[bunwell wood shoot 2]

The way i see it is this .Munties dont have a set season for velvet /shedding as it depends when they were born .As you know they are born all year round so why not be in velvet at different times to the rest .No doubt someone with more experience of these little darlings will decry this but thats my take anyway as i see them in velvet all year round .

 

 

Yes but I understood that after the first castthey sort of align with each other so that by their second year they shed at about the same time and grow at the same time. I was reading the other day that they should still be in velvet yet someone I was speaking to also reckoned that they had quite a veriation between areas. The thing is that I have never noticed them here this late and the strange thing is that on other parts of the estate, according to my underkeeper, they are all in hard antler. I could understand it if they were youngsters but these are without doubt older bucks.

 

Mark