{"id":5566,"date":"2015-10-13T19:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/?p=5566"},"modified":"2015-11-13T17:43:40","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T17:43:40","slug":"determining-your-bucks-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/determining-your-bucks-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Determining Your Buck’s Age"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Deer<\/a>The age of a harvested deer is important for both hunters and landowners to know. The relationship between\u00a0the age of a deer and its antler development can be an indicator of the deer’s health, and whether foraging conditions or harvest strategies should be changed.\u00a0To help with determining this,\u00a0the Purdue Student Chapter of the Quality Deer Management Association has created a How-To video to walk you through two of the techniques used to\u00a0deduce how old the deer is using it’s jawbone.<\/p>\n

This free video is\u00a0available to view\u00a0through The Education Store: Age Determination in White-Tailed Deer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Other Resources:<\/strong>
\nHow to Score Your White-Tailed Deer<\/a> video, The Education Store-Purdue Extension Resource Center
\nFood Plots for White-tailed Deer<\/a>,\u00a0The Education Store
\nBoiler Up for Wildlife: Fall outbreaks of EHD and Blue Tongue in deer<\/a>, Got Nature? Podcasts
\nBoiler Up for Wildlife: Deer Warts<\/a>, Got Nature? Podcasts
\niTunes – Got Nature? Podcasts<\/a><\/p>\n

Rod Williams<\/a>, Associate Professor of Wildlife Science
\nDepartment of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The age of a harvested deer is important for both hunters and landowners to know. The relationship between\u00a0the age of a deer and its antler development can be an indicator of the deer’s health, and whether foraging conditions or harvest strategies should be changed.\u00a0To help with determining this,\u00a0the Purdue Student Chapter of the Quality Deer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,54],"tags":[63,72],"class_list":["post-5566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howto","category-wildlife","tag-how-to","tag-wildlife","audience-for-enthusiasts","audience-for-homeowners","audience-for-landowners","audience-for-professionals"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5569,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5566\/revisions\/5569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}