Rarer Than A Piebald
Contributors to this thread:Whitetail Deer
From: Zbone
09-Feb-25
Zbone's Link
Cool looking deer and rarer than a piebald, a Leucistic Buck:
https://www.outdoorlife.com/hunting/hunter-first-deer-leucistic-buck/
From: buckeye
09-Feb-25
That's cool Zbone, I took a picture of this buck down in Athens at the odnr headquarters for district 4. It's be cool if that fella did a full body mount.
From: Keefers
09-Feb-25
Beautiful for sure .
From: deerhunter72
09-Feb-25
Interesting! Never even heard of that. Only seen one piebald deer a hunter killed years ago. I have seen an albino turkey and coyote.
From: Zbone
09-Feb-25
Yeah buckeye, I'd seen that full body mount piebald at one of the sports shows...
I kinda wonder if Mr. Bralley got a full body mount with his Leucistic Buck... He could probably tour with it...
From: Medicinemann
09-Feb-25
Anyone have a photo of a melanistic mount?
From: Zbone
11-Feb-25
Jake - I don't have any pix of a melanistic deer mounts, but here are a few pix I saved of wild melanistic deer... I've actually saved a few pix of melanistic deer over the years... Most come from Austin TX area (a park if I remember right, or near a park) I guess where the genes are abundant...
From: Zbone
11-Feb-25
I've always been intrigue by color phase deer since catching a white fawn as a young man... Got to know some deer farmers over the years and here are some pix of friend's captive white Leucistic deer... These deer have blue eyes not pink like albinos, and if you look close they have lighter shade of white spots on their back...
From: Zbone
11-Feb-25
Three of the four fawns in the picture were triplets from a normal colored doe, the other one was also born to a normal colored doe and had a twin that was normal colored... The one photo shows the sire, but he wouldn't allow me close to him to get a decent picture...
From: Zbone
19-Feb-25
Although produced in captivity, here are very unique carmel color phased whitetails that also occurs in the wild... I've actually seen 2 in the wild, one near Hudson, OH, the other near Dover, OH... Both wild ones were very similar to this color and both were traveling with their normal colored twin but I was not able to see their mothers...
