I recieved this in an email with the following message.......... Here is a crazy Buck that a hunter got over in WI. He sent these
pictures to a bunch of people to see what he could get and the
owner of Cabella's paid him $13,000 for the head and hide. A calico
buck like the one below is rarer then an albino.

That picture has been around taxidermy sites for a while. The buck was an incredibly nice Wisc. bow kill. Hadn't heard Cabela's bought it. The coloration is called 'piebald' in the industry. While it isn't as rare as an albino, it is not often one is seen to grow old enough to have such a nice rack. Kind of like a bummer birthmark, they really stand out in the field.











Here's a few mounts. I do not know who mounted these, found them on a taxidermy site.







Kindest regards,
Mary

That buck came from TX, not WI.. Been hashed out on every hunting site a hundred times over. And the Cabelas offer is false too.

Well you never know what you'll get in email. Mary those are some nice looking mounts. I have hunted nearly 50 years and have never saw anything like those, not sure I would shoot if I did.

I also heard it came from Texas, but you know how this internet folly is...seems I read final word was Wisc. Never the less, it is a fantastic buck wherever it was taken.

Kind regards,
Mary

This may clear it up...

This is a link to the TX Big Game Awards for the '08 season.
http://www.texasbiggameawards....g%20Game%20Watch.htm

They are getting common in tame/fenced deer.

Ted
Please qualify that statement. I have never heard that.

Perry

I saw a documentary a few years back where foxes started to have spotted coloration in a few generations of captivity.They were looking to find out how dogs got spotted coats.
dogs that go wild tend to lose there multi colored fur and go back to a wolf or coyote like color in a few generations,no matter the breed.

quote:

Originally posted by perry:
Ted
Please qualify that statement. I have never heard that.

Perry

Qualify.....I suppose thats a mature phrase for prove it. Cant prove it but this is all I know.

There are three small time whitetail pens in Southern Missouri one is near my home the owner told me they are getting common....he has one and is breading and selling more.....as good as I can do.

I guess that proves it.

Perry

Did a little google searching..found the study I was talking about.Seems piebald coloration is a trait all animals get when domesticated....

"Figure 3. Piebald coat color is one of the most striking
mutations among domestic animals. The pattern is
seen frequently in dogs (border collie, top right), pigs,
horses and cows. Belyaev’s hypothesis predicted that
a similar mutation he called Star, seen occasionally in
farmed foxes, would occur with increasing frequency
in foxes selected for tamability. The photograph
above shows a fox in the selected population with the
Star mutation."


http://www.floridalupine.org/p...F/trut-fox-study.pdf

quote:

Originally posted by jb:
Did a little google searching..found the study I was talking about.Seems piebald coloration is a trait all animals get when domesticated....

"Figure 3. Piebald coat color is one of the most striking
mutations among domestic animals. The pattern is
seen frequently in dogs (border collie, top right), pigs,
horses and cows. Belyaev’s hypothesis predicted that
a similar mutation he called Star, seen occasionally in
farmed foxes, would occur with increasing frequency
in foxes selected for tamability. The photograph
above shows a fox in the selected population with the
Star mutation."


http://www.floridalupine.org/p...F/trut-fox-study.pdf

Thanks jb,

I think that may tell the story.

your welcome.

the piebald trait , is some what common and can even be harnessed in some animals. Some dogs such as dashounds are selected for this trait.

Piebald is a Autosomal dominant( means only one of the parents has to have the trait) disorder that causes hypomelanosis( the skin, or hair to have little or no pigment--melanin)of both the skin and hair.

I can see how the frenquency can be increased with captive interbreeding.

Ed

Had 1 a doe on my hunting lease many years ago .
A few guys saw it and I didn't believe it as the first guy that saw it had about zero hunting experiance, but the land owner confirmed it !
Never heard what happened to it.

Hip

Looks like ours. She's tame, and low fenced.

There is a nice population of piebald deer around the Guthrie area of Oklahoma. The ODW decided a few years ago to outlaw the taking of 'white deer' without written permission, which I completely don't understand. By not allowing for the harvest of these deer, it allows for the potential to spread this trait throughout the remaining population.

About the last year they were allowed to be hunted, a young kid shot a 7 point that scored over 150 B&C. This deer wasn't really white but more of a soft white/eggshell or light gray color. I remember it well because of an article written up in the Daily Oklahoman.

Any way, I've seen 2 white deer just south of Guthrie while driving down I-35, but of course I saw them both at the same time. One was a little buck, either a 3 or 4 point, and the other was a doe. I believe I saw a piebald several years ago close to one of my grandfather's places east of Farifax, but I can't confirm this as the absolute because I was driving down the road and noticed several deer moving thru the end of a woodline, with one of them having a similar mottled brown and white coloring. Regardless, they are out there.