Albino Whitetail
01-11-2006, 07:43 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Indiana
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Albino Whitetail
I don't know how factual this story is but the pictures are great! I got this at work today.
"Pass this around, a lot of folks have never and will never see even a picture of an Albino deer fawn...... Albino Fawn from folks who live on Bolivar Peninsula! , Texas. A very eventful day around here... A once in many lifetimes experience! Mark saw this lil' feller run out in front of a car, thought it was a lost baby goat. Stopped to get it, and WOW. A real Albino Whitetail Deer. Just hours old, but doing fine. No Moma deer around. Another car nearly hit it in front of Mark.. Well,, he is THE neatest thing any of us ever saw. And such a 'freak of nature', that only 1 in more than a million are even born. He took his bottle of food, followed us around the house, doing great. So, we called the Zoo & Fossil Rim, who were both interested, but going to send him to a Rehab farm, at a vet that we have never gotte! n along with... So, one of Dad's best friends is our Game Warden. Kinda reluctantly, but, I called him and told him the deal. He came right over, of course... and assured me that he wouldn't take it to that vet, that he was
going to 'go to higher levels' than that with him.. So, he is gone now. We got a lot of pix, and something we will never see again probably, so it was very cool. Maybe he will make it in
captivity somewhere and be appreciated. So rare... Sure wanted to keep him tho. but, not the thing to do. And not LEGAL either ; But, here are a couple of pix to show ya. He was snow white, pink eyes, ears, nose and hooves. Kids called him POWDER. He was SO small. That is my shoe lying beside him... WOW..how cool is that??"
"Pass this around, a lot of folks have never and will never see even a picture of an Albino deer fawn...... Albino Fawn from folks who live on Bolivar Peninsula! , Texas. A very eventful day around here... A once in many lifetimes experience! Mark saw this lil' feller run out in front of a car, thought it was a lost baby goat. Stopped to get it, and WOW. A real Albino Whitetail Deer. Just hours old, but doing fine. No Moma deer around. Another car nearly hit it in front of Mark.. Well,, he is THE neatest thing any of us ever saw. And such a 'freak of nature', that only 1 in more than a million are even born. He took his bottle of food, followed us around the house, doing great. So, we called the Zoo & Fossil Rim, who were both interested, but going to send him to a Rehab farm, at a vet that we have never gotte! n along with... So, one of Dad's best friends is our Game Warden. Kinda reluctantly, but, I called him and told him the deal. He came right over, of course... and assured me that he wouldn't take it to that vet, that he was
going to 'go to higher levels' than that with him.. So, he is gone now. We got a lot of pix, and something we will never see again probably, so it was very cool. Maybe he will make it in
captivity somewhere and be appreciated. So rare... Sure wanted to keep him tho. but, not the thing to do. And not LEGAL either ; But, here are a couple of pix to show ya. He was snow white, pink eyes, ears, nose and hooves. Kids called him POWDER. He was SO small. That is my shoe lying beside him... WOW..how cool is that??"
01-11-2006, 09:21 AM
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RE: Albino Whitetail
I heard that the mom got hit by a car on the road, and they took it home. The fawn was later given to the local DNR and i dont know where it went from there, i think they were looking for a reputable deer farm to raise the deer. This is what i heard, so i dont know if it is factual.
01-11-2006, 11:01 AM
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Dominant Buck
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Location: WC FL
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RE: Albino Whitetail
After 50yrs in the woods, the first albino fawn I had ever seen was in north FL in 1998. My partner and I looked at each other, did you see what I saw? We were driving down a tight logging road and the doe and the complete white albinofawn crossed in front of the truck. Never had I or my partner seen one before. Glad I had a witness with me at the time or it's like telling someone you seen a martian in the woods!
01-11-2006, 05:19 PM
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Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Wilmington NC
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RE: Albino Whitetail
i had one at my house a few years ago and they are real tame in nature and arent hardly scared of humans i got within 10 yd from one at my house in a red shirt. we now have a half white deer here now
