Piebald...or just old...?

[Pathfinder101]

I don't think he's a fallow/cross.  He's less than a mile from my house and with a herd of other mulies.  We have no fallow deer farms in the area that I know of.  He's in the Walla Walla area.

[Timberstalker]

That is the ugliest SOB I have ever seen.  Holy cow he is ugly.  Uglier than sin!

[Old Dog]

I think what you are seeing is the same hair loss that has been affecting our blacktails for years.  I read somewhere that it had crossed the Cascades, and gotten into our mule deer herds around Yakima.  It's cause by a louse.  Lots of info on the WDFW web site.

[fish vacuum]

Weird. I'd try to get the pics to a WDFW biologist. I don't see hair missing and there isn't that much white hair. Looks more like a skin and eye issue.

[Pathfinder101]

Yeah, the closer I look at his coat, the more I think that is just ratty winter hair shedding out instead of white spots.  He has a big, healthy body.

[runamuk]

Yeah, the closer I look at his coat, the more I think that is just ratty winter hair shedding out instead of white spots.  He has a big, healthy body.

oh yeah I noticed the ratty shedding hair its the color of the pigment that is so weird around the eyes nose antlers and if the eyes are blue then it is some sort of odd genetic variant color wise....

[Pathfinder101]

From what I have been able to tell, it seems that the deer has some absence of "melanine", but not enough to make it a true albino.  Something like a piebald, but manifesting in a different way.  The blue eyes seem to agree with that, but I can't find an answer for the sagging features.  He seems otherwise healthy, so I don't think it's just age...

[mfswallace]

That is the ugliest SOB I have ever seen.  Holy cow he is ugly.  Uglier than sin!