Thread: When stags get... hard

I've seen a couple of reds around here that have been stripping, nothing that was polished right up yet but obviously hard and ready to go. I wonder if the great start to summer with plenty of growth and the rain keeping things green longer than normal has contributed to earlier full formation this year? There should be some great animals about anyhow due to the abundance of feed, saw a real ripper stag in velvet back at start of December he was huge already, mind you he had been making regular raids on a lucerne paddock!