Blogmas 2021 – Day 5 – Reclaiming My Sanity

Something new we did this year was visit Santa’s castle and meet a couple of the reindeer. While we were there the helper was telling the kids about how reindeer lose their antlers because one of them didn’t have theirs. I never really knew anything about reindeer, so I decided to share some facts about them today!

Reindeer are part of the deer family.
Reindeer is both the singular and plural form of the species.
Unlike the Bambi sort of deer, both male and female reindeer grow antlers.
Reindeer’s antlers are the heaviest and largest of the deer species.
Reindeer grow their antlers and each year they will fall off, coming back bigger year after year.
Males lose their antlers in November and females lose them in May. Which has caused speculation that Rudolph must be a female because of the antlers during Christmas eve.
Reindeer are the most domesticated of the deer species, used for milk, meat, and hides.
Reindeer were first introduced into Christmas time in 1821 when a New York Printer printed an anonymously written 16 page story called A New Year’s Present to the Little Ones from Five to Twelve, Part III. Two years afterwards a poem was written called A Visit From St. NICHOLAS, which today we now know as T’was The Night Before Christmas.