Pilose antler is usually cut off with a knife before keratinization when a stag grows new horns in spring or early summer. Generally speaking, after the antlers are cut, they will grow again for the next harvest.
Before cutting velvet antler, the person who cuts velvet antler will anesthetize the deer and then harvest it. After the incision, he will apply hemostatic to the section and wait for it to grow back. Therefore, if it is normal harvesting, the damage to the deer is not great, but the most terrible over-harvesting will have a certain impact on the health of the deer.
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Precautions:
1. Velvet sawing time: As the whole harvesting period is basically midsummer, in order to avoid excessive blood loss caused by excessive physical consumption and heat of deer, prevent accidents and facilitate processing, velvet sawing should be carried out in the morning when the weather is cool and before feeding, and the harvesting environment should be kept quiet.
2. After the deer is fixed, the antler sawer holds the saw in one hand and the velvet body in the other, and saws the antler from the pearl plate by about 1.5 cm (the stubble of the first cornu Cervi Pantotrichum should be about 5 cm). The cross section of the kerf should be parallel to the pearl plate, so as not to damage the pearl plate and make the suede fall off.
3. Drunk before picking: When picking velvet antler, you must be drunk in order to prevent deer activities from causing accidental injuries to people and deer bodies. After collecting pilose antler, inject drugs to wake it up.
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