In 50ish years of chasing Whitetails here in NW Penna. and Eastern Ohio, along with forays into WV and NY I have seen quite a few unique deer over the years.
How about you, yin's, y'all, you'se? Got any pictures?
I've seen Albino deer. Seen and harvested a piebald and double drop tine, seen grey, brown and nearly black deer. Seen a double throat patch, pink nosed deer, 3 legged doe with no sign of any leg bone just backward growing hair where the shoulder should have been and she had 2 fawns with her. Saw a cactus rack buck once also that looked like it had about a dozen stalagmites growing up from the bases. I've seen deer with white socks and pink hooves also.
Another feature I've seen which is unique here in NW Pa. is the distinct structural differences between the original Pa. deer that were nearly wiped out before sport hunting and the later deer stocking program of Michigan deer. The original Pa deer were smaller and stockier animals with shorter snouts, body length and leg length. The Michigan deer transplants genetic line are much longer nosed and taller, longer, heavier animals. The differences were much more common in the 1970's then today, thanks I guess to cross breeding out the pockets of Pa original animals.
I was reminded of this when I saw the picture of the dwarf deer from down by Pittsburgh which I posted below. The Pa original deer looked much more like this dwarf then the deer we see today. Though the picture is of an anomaly and not representative of the Pa original deer. You can see the feature difference I am referring to. The Pa original deer could reach, but seldom did reach 200 pounds where the Michigan deer, like the Ohio deer often do! The differences between the 2 deer in the picture are much like the differences described by me though certainly not representative of the 2 strains I'm referring to.
How about you, yin's, y'all, you'se? Got any pictures?
I've seen Albino deer. Seen and harvested a piebald and double drop tine, seen grey, brown and nearly black deer. Seen a double throat patch, pink nosed deer, 3 legged doe with no sign of any leg bone just backward growing hair where the shoulder should have been and she had 2 fawns with her. Saw a cactus rack buck once also that looked like it had about a dozen stalagmites growing up from the bases. I've seen deer with white socks and pink hooves also.
Another feature I've seen which is unique here in NW Pa. is the distinct structural differences between the original Pa. deer that were nearly wiped out before sport hunting and the later deer stocking program of Michigan deer. The original Pa deer were smaller and stockier animals with shorter snouts, body length and leg length. The Michigan deer transplants genetic line are much longer nosed and taller, longer, heavier animals. The differences were much more common in the 1970's then today, thanks I guess to cross breeding out the pockets of Pa original animals.
I was reminded of this when I saw the picture of the dwarf deer from down by Pittsburgh which I posted below. The Pa original deer looked much more like this dwarf then the deer we see today. Though the picture is of an anomaly and not representative of the Pa original deer. You can see the feature difference I am referring to. The Pa original deer could reach, but seldom did reach 200 pounds where the Michigan deer, like the Ohio deer often do! The differences between the 2 deer in the picture are much like the differences described by me though certainly not representative of the 2 strains I'm referring to.
