Albino deer

[deanodog]

I saw a deer yesterday that was half normal color and half white
and told friends and was laughed at and told that I had missed my medicine. Does anyone have a picture of a odd colored deer to show that such deer exist. I tried to get a picture but it did not work for me.

 

[WCCPHD]

They are called Piebald. It is due to a rare genetic variation. I've seen one in my over 50 years of hunting deer.

 

[Nevada Ed]

They also come all Black if you are ever lucky enough to see one.

Out of a three car, ten people hunting party, only my father was the only
one able to see it, before it worked its way up a hill and over the top and
never to be seen again.

 

[Old_Cop]

Had one in the back of the property several years ago, a small spike horn.

 

[johngross]

 

[JH1951]

They exist. In my years I have seen only one. In my neck of the woods it is customary not to take an albino (or partially so) as a trophy or table meat. Some even consider it bad luck to do so.

 

[bigwheelzip]

Saw them in the oceanfront parks up the coast from San Francisco on the north side of the Golden gate bridge.

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[Xfuzz]

Old timers here call them "Pie-Bald" as stated above.
They say it is bad Ju-Ju to shoot one.

 

[SMSgt]

Too rare to be shooting at.

 

[UncleEd]

In my north Georgia suburb,
have seen one, maybe two,
in two different seasons. One
grazed in my yard area for
several hours.

 

[Eagle 477]

I used to work at an IBM facility in Somers NY several hundred acres of untouched trees and several abandoned apple groves. Since it was located in a county just north of NYC there was strictly NO Hunting. I worked the security control center there and monitored the several hundred CCTV
There were 2 huge Albino Bucks on the property and several that were half white and brown. They would walk the tree lines at dusk and had even caused a few fender benders from people watching them instead of the cars ahead of them. It was quite a spectral watching these beautiful animals locking horns. I was told that someone had poached them a few years after I left...

rob

 

[2152hq]

There are Albino Whitetail Deer on the former Seneca Army Depot in Romulus, NY. Right betw Seneca and Cayuga lakes.
The secured nature of the Depot grounds kept the albino/genetic species in tact for many years.
There was a protective program in effect for many years after the Depot was closed down (around 1999/2000) to try and save the habitat and area for them. But that seems to have failed.

White Deer Tours (Seneca Army Depot) | Nonprofit Organization | Seneca White Deer, Inc.

The mixed color Brown/White Piebald Whitetail Deer are not rare in WNY. But certainly they are an uncommon site.

 

[Golphin]

My cousin killed one here in N Central Florida a couple of years ago. He had a full mount made of it.

 

[TIMETRIPPER]

I've seen several over the years in various parts of Pennsylvania. They are not a true albino. The fur buyer that I used to sell my deer skins to also did custom butchering and said that every one that came into his shop was mutated or deformed in one way or another.
They look like a goat and stand out like a sore thumb.
My coworker took a small piebald buck one year. He hasn't had any run of bad luck.The only bad luck was for the deer itself.

John

 

[len917]

No lie--we have 2 in our area. Also we have a couple of deer that hang out with some of us, fed by the kids and play with my daughters cat and dog and chickens.

 

[30-30remchester]

As I understand it, about any animal can be white. It is the red eyes that distinguish if it is albino. Quite a few white buffalo born around here that change to darker color as they age. The only true albino I ever saw was a chipmunk. While trying to catch it, it got accidentally killed. I was young and could not afford to have it mounted.

 

[GypsmJim]

In 60 years of hunting I have seen 1 Albino and 2 Pie-balds, one of which was a full mount in the basement of a friend.

 

[demkofour]

This guy (or gal) regularly roamed some open land by a nearby Catholic cemetery.
I saw it for quite some time, and then never again…

 

[llowry61]

We had one here in central Ohio. I used to see him on my way to and from work as I drove down Morse Road from Pataskala to New Albany. A mature barrel-chested buck with heavy chocolate-colored antlers. He was a stunningly beautiful animal.

I spoke to others who drove the same route and they had seen him as well. He was there for a couple of years and disappeared.

He was the only one I have ever seen, and I have deer hunted hard for many years.

If I had seen him from a tree stand, he would have been hard to pass up. Glad I didn't have to make that choice because like others, I was told it was bad luck to shoot an albino or piebald deer.

 

[foxy320]

Actually, those white deer at the Seneca Army Depot in upstate New York are not albino but true white Whitetail Deer. The Depot is all fenced in so the deer were kept in an enclosed area and were able to reproduce. There is an article about them in a very old Outdoor Life magazine that I have somewhere. I grew up in that area & was able to see them a few times, very neat!