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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: losdaddy7 on August 22, 2011, 11:34:03 PM

Title: Ever seen a white/mix blacktail?
Post by: losdaddy7 on August 22, 2011, 11:34:03 PM: This is a neighborhood deer.... Unusual huh?
Title: Re: Ever seen a white/mix blacktail?
Post by: elkoholic on August 23, 2011, 06:40:43 AM: yep.. piebald
Title: Re: Ever seen a white/mix blacktail?
Post by: Stilly bay on August 23, 2011, 12:22:41 PM: I heard piebalds were a sign of inbreeding and usually have a deformity whereas an albino is just a recessive gene. we sure had a ton of piebalds running around camano island about fifteen years ago and then the deer population crashed.
Title: Re: Ever seen a white/mix blacktail?
Post by: jackmaster on August 23, 2011, 12:24:44 PM: is a piebald the same as a pinto
Title: Re: Ever seen a white/mix blacktail?
Post by: bucknbulls on August 23, 2011, 12:53:19 PM: I saw them also on Camano, and last year I saw two fawns and a mother who all three were piebalds just south of kayak point near tulare beach.
Title: Re: Ever seen a white/mix blacktail?
Post by: Jayfire83 on August 23, 2011, 01:39:54 PM: Looks like one of those inbred island deer "very short" :chuckle:
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Post by: hunter12 on August 23, 2011, 02:08:18 PM: Saw one in enumclaw a few years ago. He never made it thru the season.
Title: Re: Ever seen a white/mix blacktail?
Post by: carpsniperg2 on August 23, 2011, 02:47:28 PM: Yes piebald, they are pretty cool deer. We get a few of then around here from time to time.