Piebald Deer?

[454PB]

Maybe I've lived a sheltered life up north, but I've never heard of this species of Deer. Anybody know about them?

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[357maximum]

A pieballed deer is just a genetic color phase, not unlike albino or melanistic deer.

I actually shot a partially pieballed dandy 8 pointer in 1999, he had white front legs and a nice aiming dot about 8 inches in diameter right over his right lung....stuck him with an arrow, he went about 20 yards caught his anlers on a fence he was jumping, flopped onto his back,,,got back up, went about 15 feet, and fell over dead...

We see a piballed from time to time, as well as the rare albino(2 in 33 years for me). I have also seen some damn near black ones,black in the face ones, and in 96 I killed a small six pointer with a small mane like a horse....and there was a five legged freak killed not far from here in the mid 80's..........nature she is a wondrous thing...

[fatnhappy]

Piebalds are just a different color phase, not a different species. They're all over the place down at Seneca Army Depot. They have a whole herd of them there. One of my buddies has one mounted.

There were a couple nature kooks petitioning the Manitoba Game Commision (resource board, envirmental board????) for protected status of a couple piebald moose. They were soliciting help all over the web. they wanted to created a 30K acre park, totally devoid of predators to help their rare moose, and turn them into a tourist attraction, all in the name of biodiversity.
I ripped one guy to shreds on the wisdom and science of protecting and promoting recessive genes at the expense of overall herd health, to no avail. I believe they enjoy protected status now.

[7br]

In my somewhat inexpert opinion, Whatcher got there is a deer that isn't ripe yet. Eat it now and it will be all bitter sorta like a green persimmon. Best give it another couple of months to ripen.

[fatnhappy]

roflmao

[9.3X62AL]

Now, THAT was good, 7BR!

[357maximum]

In my somewhat inexpert opinion, Whatcher got there is a deer that isn't ripe yet. Eat it now and it will be all bitter sorta like a green persimmon. Best give it another couple of months to ripen.

almost wet myself...good un'


Now that's an angle I had not considered.....you been hangin out with carpetman lately?

[RugerFan]

I saw several piebald whitetails when I lived in northern Maryland. Like fatnhappy said, not a different species, just a genetic thing. If you see one, there are probably more in the area.

[Slowpoke]

We see them all time here in E., VA, some are almost total white some look like a strawberry roan horse, some are marked like a paint horse, no natural predators so those gene's breed on.

good luck

[454PB]

Thanks for the education. I have to say I've never seen or even heard the name Piebald before. We have albino Deer around here, but this one looked like a half hearted albino.