The other day Jim Gephart asked, referring to this photo http://www.pbase.com/bkiefer/image/56208393, if the deer shed their antlers late down here. It turns out that the shedding period extends from January until April. Thursday I saw five bucks that had shed their antlers very recently. There were two others still sporting them. This one was feeding very near a fence on a side road and it appeared that he had lost them within hours.

For more info on antlers and their development see:

http://www.kerrlake.com/deer/antler.htm