The age of a harvested deer is important for both hunters and landowners to know. The relationship between the 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. To help with determining this, the 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 deduce how old the deer is using it’s jawbone.

This free video is available to view through The Education Store: Age Determination in White-Tailed Deer.

Other Resources:
How to Score Your White-Tailed Deer video, The Education Store-Purdue Extension Resource Center
Food Plots for White-tailed Deer, The Education Store
Boiler Up for Wildlife: Fall outbreaks of EHD and Blue Tongue in deer, Got Nature? Podcasts
Boiler Up for Wildlife: Deer Warts, Got Nature? Podcasts
iTunes – Got Nature? Podcasts

Rod Williams, Associate Professor of Wildlife Science
Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University