Piebald Fawn

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A friend of mine sent me these pictures. This deer is hanging out in someone's backyard in GA.
 

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Agreed. Sometimes piebalds look awful, sometimes not. That one definitely not!
 
If i remember right a first time hunter shot a piebald deer in MN (maybe WI) last year and the rumour was that Cabelas offered $16,000 for the carcass so they could do a full mount and put it in their store.
 
Looks to be the light. I looked at some other photos of her and did not notice any white. The other fawn in photo 1 still has spots on the rear quarter as does another one hanging around. These deer apparently live in a strip of woods about 50 yards wide and 300 yards long surrounded by subdivisions.. He has seen zero bucks on film so the deer must travel somehwere if my biology lessons were correct.
 
About 5 or 6 seasons back, my dad and I found a deer that had been hit by a car about a quarter mile from our house. Not something out of the ordinary, except that it was completely white (except for a few brown specks on its face). Its eyes were brown, so it wasn’t a TRUE albino, but still pretty cool!

Nice pictures. I wonder if I could pull the trigger on an albino deer :confused: . I’d almost feel bad killing something so rare and beautiful.
 
WoodchuckAssassin said:
About 5 or 6 seasons back, my dad and I found a deer that had been hit by a car about a quarter mile from our house. Not something out of the ordinary, except that it was completely white (except for a few brown specks on its face). Its eyes were brown, so it wasn’t a TRUE albino, but still pretty cool!

Nice pictures. I wonder if I could pull the trigger on an albino deer :confused: . I’d almost feel bad killing something so rare and beautiful.
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Plus the fact that they can't hide very well and are almost blind. I nver had any interest in killing one.
 
My sister has one on her property for sometime now. She usually gives birth to twins. She has been there for about 6 or 7 years.
 
A warden told me once to shoot any albino or pirbald we saw, horns or not. This was on a hunting club. He said it was bad genes.
 
According to what I read online(so you KNOW it must be true) this is a recessive gene and there are other health issues related to the gene. Deformed snout, short forelegs, etc.
 
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