Something to look at.............

[bswiv]

Friend took these yesterday at the edge of Payne's Prairie.....Gainesville, Fl.

 

[cowpoke]

Thats cool. Never seen a deer colered like that in the wild. I guess you could call her an appaloosa.

 

[TempestP226]

It's the other other white meat!

 

[HM2PAC]

That coloring pattern is referred to as "Piebald".

Very cool pic.

 

[Grumulkin]

I saw several piebalds in SC last year. Haven't seen one in OH yet.

 

[Freedom_fighter_in_IL]

Seen several in South Central Pa area and a few growing up down south. Whats really retarded is many states do not allow you to shoot them. A genetic anomaly in coloration makes them off limits? Freaking retarded. Id LOVE to make a nice wall hanging or a throw rug for the fireplace out of that one there.

 

[351 WINCHESTER]

My sister lives in Keystone Heights (not far from Gainesville). She has a female that has given birth to twins every year for about 6 years.

 

[Sunray]

"...call her an Appaloosa..." Pinto. snicker.

 

[jake48]

That would make a nice looking rug!

 

[countertop]

I shot a slightly piebald deer this fall. Actually, as (bad) luck would have it, it was the only deer I shot.

 

[HOOfan_1]

Something must have startled it to put up the flag.

I though I had read that Piebald deer sometimes also had shorter legs and a cleft lip.

One of the farms I hunt on used to have a completely Albino doe. I was dove hunting one September and saw her running with a couple of normal does about 200 yards down hill from me.

 

[brandon_mcg]

piebald huh? i can't imagine what i would think if i saw that from the stand. beautiful deer.

 

[41magsnub]

If I saw it from a stand I'd second guess myself long enough thinking it was goat or something it would probably be gone before I shot it. There actually are goats in one of my white-tail spots.

 

[shaggy430]

I got this one during muzzleloader this year.

 

[countertop]

had shorter legs and a cleft lip.

The one I shot had the cleft lip. And I don't know if I'd say it had shorter legs. It was basically smaller all around.

 

[RudeMood]

The only "one that got away" story my father ever told me involving a deer was a bow shot at ~25 yds on a Albino 8 pointer, just at dusk. As the story goes, the arrow went clean through, it left a blood trail for about 150 yards, and never turned up. To this day my Dad refers to it as THE ghost deer.

 

[Holo]

My old man shot one of those about 5 years ago. Makes a nice skin draped over the back of his office chair. Had a cleft lip too.

 

[shaggy430]

The one I killed had lots of horn gouges all over his body. It appears he was picked on by the other bucks, I assume because he was different. When I killed him it was before the rut.

 

[CoRoMo]

...he was picked on by the other bucks, I assume because he was different.

Yep, deer are racist. If you are the wrong color, you are immediately second class.

 

[Creature]

Looks like they are much easier to see and subsequently would have been hunted out of the gene pool by now...