pruts Posted October 21, 2010 Report Share Posted October 21, 2010 There was an artical in the paper today of a all white deer spoted in town the picture is not real great but I thought it was kinda cool. http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/2010/10/21/15771611.html#/news/london/2010/10/20/pf-15766156.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloodtrails Posted October 22, 2010 Report Share Posted October 22, 2010 :death: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeramie Posted October 22, 2010 Report Share Posted October 22, 2010 Rare find! Albino/ Piebald deer are illegal to hunt in Oklahoma. I know of one doe I use to see on a regular basis, she was a piebald. That is the only one ive ever seen... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeramie Posted October 22, 2010 Report Share Posted October 22, 2010 Actually, isnt that an exotic? Look at the rack. Im not sure that is a deer?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted October 22, 2010 Report Share Posted October 22, 2010 Actually, isnt that an exotic? Look at the rack. Im not sure that is a deer?! Probably fallow deer, the article is from London, England. A surgeon around here has a farm where he has exotics, he has several nice fallow deer bucks on his place. Never seen an albino or piebald in the woods, very rare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeramie Posted October 22, 2010 Report Share Posted October 22, 2010 Ahhh, that would make more sense. Does look like a fallow (which is considered an exoctic around here). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DropTine49 Posted October 22, 2010 Report Share Posted October 22, 2010 Rare find! Albino/ Piebald deer are illegal to hunt in Oklahoma. I know of one doe I use to see on a regular basis, she was a piebald. That is the only one ive ever seen... Illegal? I was always told that albion/piebald in whitetail deer was caused due to inbreeding, and they needed to be taken out the same as cull bucks with inferior antlers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arrow32 Posted October 22, 2010 Report Share Posted October 22, 2010 Thats cool. I've saw a piebald doe. Could have shot her but she was to cool:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted October 22, 2010 Report Share Posted October 22, 2010 Illegal? I was always told that albion/piebald in whitetail deer was caused due to inbreeding, and they needed to be taken out the same as cull bucks with inferior antlers. Dunno about the inbreeding, seems from what I have read it has to do with genetics, recessive traits that on the rare occasion show up. Tennessee regs like Oklahoma make it illegal for anyone to kill deer which lack pigment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pruts Posted October 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2010 Probably fallow deer, the article is from London, England. A surgeon around here has a farm where he has exotics, he has several nice fallow deer bucks on his place. Never seen an albino or piebald in the woods, very rare. It's not in England London Ontario is in Canada Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted October 23, 2010 Report Share Posted October 23, 2010 It's not in England London Ontario is in Canada I read this in the article immediately below the pic in the link you provided. The article and title also mention London, did not see where it said this deer was in Ontario. "London appears to be home, at least temporarily, to a rare, all-white deer. Photographed through a window by Londoner Bill Hopkins, the deer vanished almost as quickly as it appeared. (Bill Hopkins, special to QMI Agency)" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Straight Shooter Posted October 23, 2010 Report Share Posted October 23, 2010 It looks like a deer but the rack is all messed up, very unusual nontypical. The legendary King Arthur led an epic, but unsuccessful, quest for the rare white stag. In modern-day London, Bill Hopkins may have captured a similar, one-in-10,000 buck — or, at least, the ghostly image of one. “It was pretty surreal, almost right up there with seeing a unicorn,” he says of his sighting late last week in west London. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pruts Posted October 24, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2010 I read this in the article immediately below the pic in the link you provided. The article and title also mention London, did not see where it said this deer was in Ontario. "London appears to be home, at least temporarily, to a rare, all-white deer. Photographed through a window by Londoner Bill Hopkins, the deer vanished almost as quickly as it appeared. (Bill Hopkins, special to QMI Agency)" It likley didn't say Ontario, in Canada we have lots of things, citys, rivers and that sort of thing that are named after English places, I just wanted to clarify. If a recesive gene or inbreading caused the colour might it also cause a phisical deformity? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brad dryden Posted October 26, 2010 Report Share Posted October 26, 2010 Its a white stag from what I understand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted October 26, 2010 Report Share Posted October 26, 2010 It likley didn't say Ontario, in Canada we have lots of things, citys, rivers and that sort of thing that are named after English places, I just wanted to clarify. Read the article for yourself, from your link you supplied. It says absolutely nothing about Canada and even the comment section the replies were from London England. To give you the benefit of the doubt here, perhaps you posted the wrong link or maybe you did not read the article you posted the link to and the pic from, the same pic you posted was on that article. If a recesive gene or inbreading caused the colour might it also cause a phisical deformity? Don't think so, I am not a biologist or a geneticist, but think that would be carried on different dna. Those antlers are common for fallow deer, which is undoubtedly what was pictured. That was not a whitetailed deer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pruts Posted October 26, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2010 Read the article for yourself, from your link you supplied. It says absolutely nothing about Canada and even the comment section the replies were from London England. To give you the benefit of the doubt here, perhaps you posted the wrong link or maybe you did not read the article you posted the link to and the pic from, the same pic you posted was on that article. I did check and that is the right link to our local paper. I did not see where the coments say from being from anywhere at all, and you will have to beleive me I am proudly canadian and live in canada Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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