Velvet antler is the whole cartilaginous antler in a precalcified growth stage of the Cervidae family including the species of deer such as elk, moose...

Once the antler has achieved its full size, the velvet is lost and the antler's bone dies. This dead bone structure is the mature antler. In most cases...

success. Some cultures revere the elk as having spiritual significance. Antlers and velvet are used in traditional medicines in parts of Asia. Elk is hunted...

levels drop in the autumn, the velvet is shed and the antlers stop growing. With the approach of autumn, the antlers begin to calcify and the stags'...

carnivores and rodents eat dropped antlers as they are full of protein and moose themselves will eat antler velvet for the nutrients. If a bull moose...

females have antlers. The males grow their antlers from March to August and the females from June to September, and in both cases the velvet is gone by...

their colour changes...When the velvet starts to fall off the antler is red because the antler is made from blood. The antler is the blood that has hardened;...

Harvesting antler velvet. A bull moose grows a new pair of antlers every summer. Similar to the maral farms in New Zealand and Siberia, moose antlers can be...

the velvet of their antlers. Antler velvet is rich in growth hormone and is used in traditional Chinese medicine. The most valuable antler velvet comes...

for velvet antlers. Japan is the only country in eastern Asia where sika deer were not farmed for velvet antlers. Other deer raised for the antler trade...