The days have been warm here at Ark Ranch recently.
The buds on the trees are starting to swell and look like they will bloom soon.
There are many ways to feel the news of spring, but you can also feel it from animals.

this is? ...It's a deer antler.
It was lying in the pasture.
Deer antlers naturally fall off every spring. After that, new velvet horns begin to grow, and the growth of that year's horns stops around autumn.
We ranch staff sense the changing seasons by looking at the condition of deer antlers.

It looks like the antler from earlier fell off the deer in the middle.
There's still one left! !

This is the only time you have the chance to see one-horned deer.
Please come and visit the farm during spring break.

Agricultural Department Takumi Makino