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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.A stag without antlers is called a hummel.
Further to my post above, if you live in the West Country it could also be called a Nott.
According to this:
A Hummel is a stag without antlers, also known as a �Nott� in the West Country.
Here's a reference from 1425 with appropriate spelling: "...the fyrste yere he is a calfe, the secund yere a broket, the thrid yere a spayer..."
It's clear that the word 'calf' can be applied to the young - of either sex - of all sorts of creatures...even including whales! The definition in my earlier response was the one provided by The Oxford English Dictionary.
The earliest recorded use of the word 'hummel' to describe an antlerless stag dates back only a hundred years, though it was used for hornless cattle centuries earlier.
I'll stick with history and TOED as my sources, though if you are looking for and adult stag without antlers - ie one that is, effectively, maimed - 'hummel' is probably the way to go.