Photo of that "albino" deer I saw

[Chip]

not albino, but much whiter/greyer than the others.
Anyway I got a picture of it on the way home from work today !.

 

[Head]

Nice! I saw one 2 years ago coming back from LP...my car mates were all sleeping and did not believe such a creature could possibly exist

 

[una_dogger]

Wow--that's pretty cool!
Thanks for sharing!

 

[Chip]

This is a field adjacent to a small farm about 3 miles from my house.

"Whitetails are named for their most prominent feature. The whitetail holds its tail upright when alarmed, exposing a snowy white underside and white rump patch that strike a warning to other deer."

 

[Artex]

Wow, Chip! Great photo! Especially cool that the other deer are in it so one can compare and contrast.

 

[NewHampshire]

Ok, deer hunters (or anyone else)...what's wrong with that picture?




See my next post for answer.

They are not vacu-sealed and in my freezer?????

Brian

 

[NewHampshire]

Chip is correct. Whitetail deer do not always run with tails up. Mostly they only do so when scared or alarmed. Speculation is so that the young can easily follow the parent when they take flight, but only the deer themselves know....

Brian

 

[NH_Mtn_Hiker]

You are incorrect sir. These are local deer in an open field near my home, the area they are crossing is a gas line easement that runs south through CT. There are no farms for food as deer meat is not legal, and if there were a farm for sport, I'd belong as my local sportsman club just folded this past year.

Do you really think I have the time or inclination to make things like this up here ?

How about petting farms...
For Example

 

[Chip]

How about petting farms...
For Example

None that I know of. Not saying it's not possible, but this herd is wild and roams a 2 or 3 square mile area adjacent to my neighborhoods herd.

Just posting a local anomoly, any explanation is welcome.

I'm surprised no one has asked about the "hand" in the lower right corner of the photo.
It's a work glove stuck on a fence post.

 

[NH_Mtn_Hiker]

Some interesting stuff about fallow deer farming in the US.
fallow deer pdf

Pic of fallow deer
Note the wide variation in color.

 

[mavs00]

I live in Western NY and used to regularly fish in Seneca Lake. I would drive past the Seneca Army Depot (SAD) every weekend for a few years in the late 80's early 90's.

What the hell does this have to do with this thread. Well inside the fences of the old SAD, resides one of the largest herds of -ALBINO DEER- in the country {more -PICS-}. We would regularly see them along the fence as dawn and dusk. There were about 2-3 Albinos for every "normal" one. It was wierd at first, but after awhile, it just was.

Awesome shot

 

[NH_Mtn_Hiker]

I live in Western NY and used to regularly fish in Seneca Lake. I would drive past the Seneca Army Depot (SAD) every weekend for a few years in the late 80's early 90's.

What the hell does this have to do with this thread. Well inside the fences of the old SAD, resides one of the largest herds of Albino deer in the country. We would regularly see them along the fence as dawn and dusk. There were about 2-3 Albinos for every "normal" one. It was wierd at first, but after awhile, it just was.

Awesome shot-ALBINO DEER-

Where were you Mavs? Those deer wre discussed in an earlier thread. They are not albinos, they are white whitetailed deer. There is a difference though they both are white.

 

[mavs00]

Where were you Mavs? Those deer wre discussed in an earlier thread. They are not albinos, they are white whitetailed deer. There is a difference though they both are white.

So they were....... {just did a search on "white deer"}

I don't read every thread, sorry......... carry on with the discussion.

 

[Gris]

Photoshop...

 

[David Metsky]

Photoshop...

How do they use the trackball with those hooves?

-dave-

 

[DougPaul]

What the hell does this have to do with this thread. Well inside the fences of the old SAD, resides one of the largest herds of -ALBINO DEER- in the country {more -PICS-}. We would regularly see them along the fence as dawn and dusk. There were about 2-3 Albinos for every "normal" one. It was wierd at first, but after awhile, it just was.

The report says the white deer were protected while the normally colored ones were mangaged through hunting. In other words, they applied selective breeding to maintain the white deer herd...

Doug

 

[WalksWithBlackflies]

Nice photo Chip!

NH_Mtn_Hiker... I like your idea of a game farm, especially with that formidable 3-foot-high fence. NO WAY a deer could jump over that!!!

 

[mtnmama]

Pretty cool Chip! I've never seen a white deer.

 

[teejay]

White Deer

I grew up in Waterloo, NY just north of the Seneca Ordinance Depot. Local legend was that these white deer were mutants caused by the nuclear warheads thought to be stored there.

teejay

 

[Gris]

I may be over sensitive

Yeah, you are! Nice pic BTW. We have a few of those down here, not many tho.