Bucks in velvet (photos of deer)
Posted: August 24th, 2007, 12:18 am
Took the family to fill our feeders last week and my god the deer were friendly!
First buck up for a snack (Casey feeding it)
Just kidding. A week ago we returned from visiting family in Wisconsin and along the way one of our stops included visiting the famous Wisconsin Deer Park (since 1957). I can remember visiting this place some 3 decades ago (jeesssshh)!
Here are a few photos I thought you might enjoy. As you would expect the velvet covered racks are soft on the exterior but quite solid beneath the velvet. The bucks didn’t like their velvet being touched but if you held out a cracker you could lightly handle the horns while they concentrated on getting the crackers. They are very dainty eaters. Careful with their feet and horns too.
Pretty cool.
Nice tall rack
Wifer feeding a big boy
Pretty cool to be able to do this.
Pretty hungry deer
Kaitlyn w/a snoozer
Later that night we had pizza at a local pizzeria and come to find out those darn horns are contagious.
Brian
First buck up for a snack (Casey feeding it)
Just kidding. A week ago we returned from visiting family in Wisconsin and along the way one of our stops included visiting the famous Wisconsin Deer Park (since 1957). I can remember visiting this place some 3 decades ago (jeesssshh)!
Here are a few photos I thought you might enjoy. As you would expect the velvet covered racks are soft on the exterior but quite solid beneath the velvet. The bucks didn’t like their velvet being touched but if you held out a cracker you could lightly handle the horns while they concentrated on getting the crackers. They are very dainty eaters. Careful with their feet and horns too.
Pretty cool.
Nice tall rack
Wifer feeding a big boy
Pretty cool to be able to do this.
Pretty hungry deer
Kaitlyn w/a snoozer
Later that night we had pizza at a local pizzeria and come to find out those darn horns are contagious.
Brian
