The buck with his side gone had it broke off by the bigger buck. The guy said the day they were both hard horned, the bigger buck stomped the snot out of him.
About 10% of the wild deer in PA have shed their velvet. So them being out of velvet is natural.
He is just a small time deer farmer. He said he can't afford the cost of $2500-$10,000 to buy 1 oz of high end buck semen the big time deer farmers use. The one buck that was still in velvet I couldn't get a pic of is about 120" at 1.5 years of age. His deer are all of PA origin. He mostly keeps them to sell their urine to hunters and to use for his taxidermy business.
