White Deer

[TransAmMike]

For a bit over 3 years this pure white Deer makes an apprarance in our area.  She was just a doe when we first saw her. The pictures were taken by my Daughter from our front porch.

 

 

[cobraman]

Wow !  I don't believe I ever saw one. Are they very common ?

[Miatatom]

So cool. I hope no one wants to make a trophy out of her.

[Ace-Garageguy]

20 minutes ago, Miatatom said:

So cool. I hope no one wants to make a trophy out of her.

Or dinner...

[Venom]

We used to have an albino deer that roamed a certain portion of our town years ago as well. Not sure how common it is, but guessing it’s not incredibly rare

[Mike C.]

Seeing one of those has to have some hidden meaning or something. 

I also have an Albino deer story. The first year I went buck hunting with my dad and uncle and 1 cousin, I had to be around 15 and I had herd stories of pure white deer but had never seen one. Must have been the 2nd day in (upstate PA) I'm with my dad and we see this heard of about 15 or so deer we weren't close enough to see any antlers and didn't get a shot but my dad made a sharp noise to make them all stop and he points out a pure white doe to me. We stood there in amazement  for a minute. I have never seen one since. Saw plenty of the patchy ones but never a pure white on again. I went around for years thinking these things were very common. Turns out their not.

[Mike C.]

I just googled it. About 1 in 30,000

[Snake45]

Saw one on Dexter New Blood on Showtime. 

[Ace-Garageguy]

Seems like there used to be one on every other block in Britain...    

 

Edited January 29, 2022 by Ace-Garageguy

[Dave Ambrose]

Bill,

They must like beer. 

[peteski]

Albinism occurs in all species, but it is relatively rare. Here is some info about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albinism

I wonder how the other "normal" deer treat an albino deer? Do do they shun it, or accept it?

[ChrisBcritter]

This one became a musician :

[peteski]

Not a true albino - has a black bow-tie.

[Classicgas]

Beautiful. While we've never had a albino, we do get visitors daily. Once there were 7 out there.

[PappyD340]

They are very cool, I've only seen one in my lifetime on a hunt years ago.

[Snake45]

6 hours ago, peteski said:

I wonder how the other "normal" deer treat an albino deer? Do do they shun it, or accept it?

I have a hilarious answer but it would probably get me banned here, so you'll have to think of it yourself. 

[Ace-Garageguy]

6 minutes ago, Snake45 said:

I have a hilarious answer but it would probably get me banned here, so you'll have to think of it yourself. 

Great minds think alike.    

I'm soooooo tempted though...

Edited January 29, 2022 by Ace-Garageguy

[Miatatom]

13 hours ago, Snake45 said:

Saw one on Dexter New Blood on Showtime. 

So you know what happens if you shoot one. You'll wind up on the table. ?

Edited January 29, 2022 by Miatatom

[Snake45]

13 minutes ago, Miatatom said:

So you know what happens if you shoot one. You'll wind up on the table. ?

Yup. It won't end well for you. Seems to be unlucky for some reason. 

[OldTrucker]

I've seen three in my lifetime. Two when we lived in Wisconsin. One of those while hunting, maybe a 10 or 12 point buck. My wife's step-grandpa got mad when I wouldn't shoot it!LOL

The third one was out of town at a state park. Coming into town saw it feeding in a corn field near the tree line. Looked to be a yearling.

It made the local news the next day but a couple days later it had tried to cross the road at a bridge and a car hit it.

[Mike C.]

My cousin has a cabin on state game land in upstate PA. Sometimes some of his inlaws would stay and hunt with us and this one time this one guy got a blotchy sort of buck. It was interesting because the pattern on the one one side was a mirror image of the white blotches on the other side. I may have even taken a picture of it. I'll have to go and look. This was back when you had to take the film to the drugstore and wait for them to develop it.

[peteski]

4 hours ago, Snake45 said:

I have a hilarious answer but it would probably get me banned here, so you'll have to think of it yourself. 

I was sort of hoping for this kind of response.

[Ace-Garageguy]

20 hours ago, cobraman said:

...I don't believe I ever saw one. Are they very common ?

Here's what appears to be a knowledgeable article about white deer, and the differences between albinism and leucistic or piebald.

Written by Matthew L. Miller, director of science communications for The Nature Conservancy, it probably has a good chance of being factual. 

https://blog.nature.org/science/2016/02/03/white-deer-understanding-a-common-animal-of-uncommon-color/

[TransAmMike]

Wasn't expecting this many comments on my pictures.

By the way, I don't know about other areas but shooting a white deer is illegal here in Tennessee.

A few more pics for antone interested.

This answers the question if the other deers shun a white one...

Close up taken by a friend of my Daughter.  All other pics were taken by my Daughter from our porch.

Our Turkey flock. Sometimes there are 15-20 out there at once.

 

 

 

 

[Venom]

Well since others have added their deer pics, I guess I’ll chip in .... This was standing about 3 feet outside my window last summer.