Raising deer for antlers requires specialized farming ... Sustainable harvesting methods, such as velvet antler collection, are used without harming the animals. Advanced breeding, nutrition ...

Obviously summer bucks are in full velvet and very protective of their rapidly growing–but tender antlers ... to say “I’m the boss” to other deer. It should be noted that bachelor groups ...

By contrast, antlers consist of bone covered by living skin known as “velvet,” which supplies blood ... but antlers grow on species in the deer family, and typically on males.