PIebald buck
 

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weird. never seen a piebald that dark. looks like one though.

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Wow. He'd be dead no matter how small his antlers were.

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that's great. i have seen one piebald down in mississippi, but in the midwest were i live i have never seen one. i found a picture of this true albino buck searching the web. i don't know how to upload it, but here is the link. i have posted link on another spot here, but if you missed it you should definetely take a look at it: http://www.whitetailworld.com/trophyroom/deer/unique-pictures/15/Image.aspx

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i have seen 3 piebalds and 1 albinos at this very spot but i didnt have themotive to take the lil guys

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i shot a nice piebald 8 pointer last year and im waiting to get him back but heres a pic of his legs that im going to have something done with in the near future. maybe a gun rack or bow rack

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Yep thats a pieblad all right.
I saw one doe where I hunt at and I thought it was the weirdest thing I ever saw.
Good picture too.

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I've never seen a piebald or albino in the woods.....that would be awesome.

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one shot i think that albino has the genes going around therefore explaing the piebalds :D

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here is the huge albino i was talking about from whitetailworld.com

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He got a little pie

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guys my dad said there was a big 8 albino that was waliking round here bout 8 years ago and this could be his genes but somebody unfortunatly shot him at night

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<-----got this one 2 yrs ago, full body mount, at the shop still. i bout fell outa my stand when i saw it

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Nice Nice

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albino and piebalds are 2 diferent genetics. while both are straictly recessive genetics the albino lacks all pigment thus giving them the pink eyes and nose. the piebald still has the black nose and normal eyes. to reproduce the gene in both is donr the same way. but in order to reproduce the albino gene the albino needs to breed with another deer carying the albino gene. a normal looking deer can cary the heterozogous gene for albino and produce albino but an albino will not produce another albino with a normal deer. the same goes for pieds. an albino bred to a normal will produce a possible heterozogous animal then to see if it proves out that possible het would have to breed back to another het or albino deer in order to produce the albino. in short both the pieds and the albinos are a genetically defective animal therefore they are not good to have breeding in your herd. now they are cool to see and even cooler to harvest but they should be taken out if you are into correct management and you want the best healthiest herd.

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thanks for the info, but how can a 4.5 year old buck that scores in the 180's typical be inferior? i understand your post, but is this buck just an exception?

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great pic id try to let him get really big if these deer are only hunted by you, if not take him because u dont see piebalds that much

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id like to have seen that big 8 one shot, those &**& poachers

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me too my dad said he was beautiful

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well booner. genetically he is. the gene is recessive. im not saying hes not nice at all. id take him in a heartbeat. im just explaining the genetic makeup of them. plus you can still grow big racks on them since that is nothing more then nutrition. but still genetically inferior and yeas very rare to see them that big. now keep in mind alot of that also has to do with anytime someone sees them they shoot them so many of them dont get a chance at getting that old.

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thanks for the info va. it's just pretty awesome to see an albino that big. i'm just trying to get a better understanding.

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Here is my first one I've seen except for one call snowflake (made off limits by DNR). I do know a small farm in central Ohio who are raising a few of them and they haed a big 8 point Albino one on the farm.

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I killed this one in Preston County, West Virginia about 5 years back. Just a scrub seven pointer, but he had piebald markings with white socks on three legs.

The picture is a digital picture of a 35mm picture, so it's really blurry. He had a few white spots on his brisket and a few bigger spots/blotches low on his body on both sides, near the belly, as you can see. He also had a white spot on his right ear (the white on his head in the picture is just the tag). Really a neat looking buck, and I was happy to take him. I just wish I had somebetter pictures.

That was the second buck I'd taken with white socks, but the other one had no other piebald markings. This one had a few, but not enough to take the hide to the taxidermist.

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Great pic Fieldmouse.
We have a similar piebald doe where I hunt. I got a 20 yard broadside shot at her two years ago, and decided not to take the shot (almost dark, long drag, really pretty). Anyhow, I'm regretting it to this day that I didn't take the shot.

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Shot one six years ago...a seven point. I got the hide tanned.