Definately a fallow deer. There are 3 colors: chocolate, spotted (look a lot like axis), and solid white. Pretty weird looking breed. Their antlers have brow tines like an elk and then sweep back to a palmation, not unlike a cariboo. They do eat well. That one should be tender.

Elk, red deer, and sika are all genetically related and can interbreed. I know a guy who bred a bull elk with sika does (150-200lbs). They bred and had babies with no problem, but the young was as big as mama at 3-4 months of age.

For the uneducated, there are many so called " game ranches" in Texas that started many years ago. Because of hogs, old fences, a lot of exotics have broken out of these ranches and spread to " nongame ranches" . I have one like bobo. We have blackbuck antelope, axis, fallow, and sika deer. All game is wild and freeranging because there are no high fences in the area. I happen to think that axis is the best eating deer out there. It is leaner than beef, but has some marbling in the meat to make it more tender and jucier than whitetail. They are also bigger than the whitetail in my area, by about 50 lbs.