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    White deer.

    Anyone ever seen one? We almost hit a piebald deer tonight on the way home. Her body was almost all white and her head was brown. We thought she was a huge dog, but obviously a deer, young and pregnant. It really threw me. I've never seen white on a deer before.

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    I've seen two in our local park...different deer, different years....they're really cool.

    I thought the first one was someone's escaped pony at first.

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    Yes we have had several around here, they are beautiful. Unfortunately there are some hunters that think they would be an even bigger prize and have gone after them.
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    We’ve had a couple in our local park over the years. Super cool!
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    I have seen one, but it was a long long time ago, maybe 30 years ago at the family farm. It hung out for a year or so then never seen it again.

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    Lucky you to see that. White is such a bad colour for a deer to be though. No camouflage to that at all. Well maybe in winter. I've only ever seen the white squirrels.
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    Quote Originally Posted by labsnewfy View Post
    Yes we have had several around here, they are beautiful. Unfortunately there are some hunters that think they would be an even bigger prize and have gone after them.
    I shot one while hunting several years ago. As for hunters considering them a "big prize" I have heard suspicions voiced that it is bad luck to shoot one, folklore no doubt. In actuality piebalds are a genetic mutation in origin and they have a very poor survival rate. I have seen several locally over the years in very close proximity to me home. Those deer observed would suggest those genes are entrenched within the local population of white tailed deer.

    The venison tasted the same as any other deer, but I had a strange hankering to listen to some Johnny Winter tunes after eating a steak or two.

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    Quote Originally Posted by IRISHWISTLER View Post
    I shot one while hunting several years ago. As for hunters considering them a "big prize" I have heard suspicions voiced that it is bad luck to shoot one, folklore no doubt. In actuality piebalds are a genetic mutation in origin and they have a very poor survival rate. I have seen several locally over the years in very close proximity to me home. Those deer observed would suggest those genes are entrenched within the local population of white tailed deer.

    The venison tasted the same as any other deer, but I had a strange hankering to listen to some Johnny Winter tunes after eating a steak or two.

    Mikey
    At least it didn't bring to mind Gordon Lightfoot's "The Pony Man".

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    In relatively built up areas, where no hunting is allowed, I see the piebald as a genetic adaptation to prevent drivers from hitting them. They are amazingly more visable at night. Our deer are harder to shoo away than a cow or horse. The hungry mother deer can hardly move themselves and their fawns so that I can back out of the driveway some years. It freaked me out at first, like a sign of rabies. Nope. They are semiferal, not wild. It is so weird.

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    What a treat to see! Only have ever seen them on TV.
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