Do deer eat their sheds?
- Thread starter Muleys32
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Perhaps a lack of food and minerals will drive a deer to chew dropped antlers. I don't know. However, sometimes a deer or many deer in a given area will chew just to chew. I have replaced hundreds of sections of plastic 5/16" tubing in the maple sugar woods, that have been chewed and ruined by deer.
Gellar
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There is not much out there for nutrients right now until those first green shoots start emerging. Does are growing a fawn and bucks are starting to regrow their antlers, both take a lot calcium and other nutrients in a time when the pickings are slim. Chewing on antlers may be the difference in survival.
el unit
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I've seen elk do the same thing to plastic sheathing on wiring for sporting clays machines. All summer long and into fall. Frustrating, yet amusing.
Highground
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I picked one up yesterday looked just like this one. I left it thinking if something was eating it I didnt want to take its only meal. Haha. I figured it was a squirrel had chewed it, interesting it may have been a deer.
