What happens to button bucks nobs every year while all the older bucks are losing their antlers. Do button bucks lose their nobs or do those start turning into antlers?
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What happens to button bucks nobs every year while all the older bucks are losing their antlers. Do button bucks lose their nobs
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If you are talking about yearlings with the little, hairy knobs on their heads, they stay there until they start growing into antlers. I call these little bucks "knotheads" to distinguish them from the little bucks that actually have a tiny bit of antler showing, about the size of a button, in which case they lose these "buttons" before starting to grow antlers for next year. This condition may be confined to the Deep South where the doe/buck ratio is out of balance and the mama may have been bred as late as March causing what may have been a spike or forkie to only have a button of antler---in other words, a very young 1.5 year old deer. Good question
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