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Offline irishevox

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Albino Deer?
« on: July 31, 2013, 02:42:46 AM »
My wife was driving in Oak Harbor yesterday and snapped this pic of an albino deer.  It is the first i have ever seen... it is small at the time... but when and if it makes it and gets bigger would it be ok to kill and eat? i have never had to deal with this.
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Re: Albino Deer?
« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2013, 03:07:16 AM »
Would be fine to kill and eat, bad juju though.
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Re: Albino Deer?
« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2013, 03:20:14 AM »
It used to be illegal to take an albino in this state....not anymore.

Legal now to harvest.
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Re: Albino Deer?
« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2013, 03:20:59 AM »
Quote from: Smossy on July 31, 2013, 03:07:16 AM
Would be fine to kill and eat, bad juju though.

Why the bad juju?
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Re: Albino Deer?
« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2013, 03:27:54 AM »
Quote from: ICEMAN on July 31, 2013, 03:20:59 AM
Quote from: Smossy on July 31, 2013, 03:07:16 AM
Would be fine to kill and eat, bad juju though.

Why the bad juju?
Spirit Deer. Natives have some weird beliefs about them, don't really know what exactly.
I would never kill one personally.

The white colour deer or stag has long been associated with purity; and in Celtic culture, the colour also represented the otherworld.[2] In modern society, people have acted to protect the white stag as a vestige of beauty, and the hunting of the white stag has often met with anger, because of its rare and elusive nature.[6]

Guess that don't really mean much to some people. I just believe in Karma and other unworldly natures that us as humans still don't understand. Id let him walk for sure :tup:
To each they're own though.
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Re: Albino Deer?
« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2013, 03:33:05 AM »
Good points.....

I look at it like a color phase bear or irregular antler or similar....just a variation from the norm.....
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Re: Albino Deer?
« Reply #6 on: July 31, 2013, 04:18:41 AM »
SORRY..big old monster buck...whack!
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Re: Albino Deer?
« Reply #7 on: July 31, 2013, 06:22:59 AM »
yeah i dunno... i would love to take it if it was a buck... espically if it got big would be an awesome mount... but still i dunno if i could do it b/c of the rareity... and b/c i am Irish... i dunno... but if it taste the same i might have to :)
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Re: Albino Deer?
« Reply #8 on: July 31, 2013, 09:13:18 AM »
I would take it if legal. Would love that hide or mount if buck.  Pretty awesome.  Just a genetic anomaly... 
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Re: Albino Deer?
« Reply #9 on: August 01, 2013, 02:21:41 AM »
i think i would mount regarless buck or doe b/c of the rarity.... anyone else have pictures of this?
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Re: Albino Deer?
« Reply #10 on: August 01, 2013, 06:39:20 AM »
They are bad genes that none of us want to be passed on, Including WDFW. I wouldn't have a problem culling it out of the herd.
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Re: Albino Deer?
« Reply #11 on: August 01, 2013, 06:55:01 AM »
 :yeah:it's a defect. Cull it. Figures these groups are worshiping defective animals
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Re: Albino Deer?
« Reply #12 on: August 01, 2013, 09:20:49 PM »
how is it defective.
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Re: Albino Deer?
« Reply #13 on: August 01, 2013, 09:26:38 PM »
It is from defective genes, this is a pretty good article about it and includes some cool pictures:

http://all-that-is-interesting.com/animal-albinism
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Re: Albino Deer?
« Reply #14 on: December 05, 2013, 02:32:25 PM »
I lived on whidbey island (south end) until 2004. For a while there was an albino buck roaming around! Pretty cool to watch!
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