Got this white little doe on cam last week. There is two of them on are farm. Hope to see one in twenty days.
Your not going to shoot it are you? Is there a lot of hunting pressure? I would let both of them walk. I think it would be awesome to watch something liek that mature and possibly have more white offspring!
That pelt would look good hanging...
Beentown
Awesome pictures! Personally, I would shoot an albino, or even a piebald, in a heartbeat. For one, it would look sweet hanging on the wall. And two, albinos and piebalds are genetically-inferior animals.... So what's the sense in letting them stick around, potentially passing down poor genetic qualities?
Actually they are not. A good friend of mine is super big into deer management and has a couple piebalds running around. He has spoke with several biologists about their inferiority and was told they will not mess up genetics at all.
How could an albino deer NOT be genetically-inferior? It's a product of recessive genes, and is usually associated with skin and vision problems... along with other possible genetic mutations. If it negatively affects the animal, IMO it's genetically-inferior to the other "normal" animals. If it wasn't, there'd be a lot more albinos running around because natural selection wouldn't have weeded them out. Piebalds may not have all the problems that go along with true albinism... so the biologists are probably right about those... but albinos, yea, I'd shoot one in a heartbeat.
It's bad luck! Don't do it!!!