Talbot County Oddity

[bayside]

Bagged this unique six- pointer at 9:20 am on opening day. No, it did not come with a cowbell -- or a unicorn [grin]. Has anyone ever seen one like this?

[nicbuc]

That is a Piebald, becoming more and more common where deer populations are large.

[Jim Bright]

about 6 or 7 years ago my dad shot a 8-point piebald in Talbot -- a farm in Trappe.

Where were you hunting?

[bcw1]

they are almost common in the Windy Hill/Bruceville area of Trappe

[rock n crab]

I've seen several in the Southern Maryland area and took one with my bow several years back, had the entire deer mounted....

[Bunkerboz]

Nice deer

[RYASON]

Pretty cool looking deer. Up here in harford county there is a snow white albino that eats in a field pretty close to the road. Cars are stopped all the time to take pictures. Pretty neat.

[longfin2]

Nice Deer. RYASON, my sister lives in the neighborhood right across the street from that farm. That deer ain't no albino. If you can get a close look at her you'll see she's got brown on her ears and head, and her eyes aren't pink. She's a little deformed in the face too. I've live 2 minutes from that farm for 27 years. Nobody has ever hunted it so the deer are all inbred, damn shame. Yuppy horse owners!

[Jim Bright]

bcw1 --

I hunted other side of 50 in Trappe -- guess they migrated.

Almost bought a few acres a few months back at intersection of Windyhill and Bruceville Roads. Nice area.

[Dave Sikorski]

I shot one just outside St. Michaels. He was a Button though. There was a yearling in the same woods last year that didn't make it through the season as far as i know.

Mine isn't that white his back is regular colored and has a stripe from the tip of his tail, up his back. Will post a pic when I get it back from the taxidermist, didn't have the camera yesterday.

-D

[baylinercuddy]

I used to be stationed on USCG Alexandria and it had a large population of deer. Apparently inbreeding was happening and we had one of those as well--it looked retarded and none of the other deer would have anything to do with it. It would just hang around the MK shop all day.

[choptank]

My father has been after one this whole year back in frederick ( we never see piebalds) He has let bucks walk tryin for this 95% white deer ( doe) with a brown ring around its eye. He has videoed it about 50 yards off and he has had her at 25 yards but he said it was too early in the day to shoot ,as he lives in a some what populated area, and everybody would see a white deer with dads arrow hanging out. Would not be a very pro hunting move. I seen one about 2 years back in Poolesville I was muzzleloading and I thought it was a dalmation but as it turned away I saw a nice rack on him and solo gunfires all thru the woods as he left....Poor deer , even blind people can see these deer coming. If anybody ever gets one and discards it..I will take one to mount.

[bayside]

Strangely enough, this deer did come from the Trappe area. Sounds like there are others out there also. It had normal looking eyes so I guess it wasn't a true albino. It had a lot of white though...I saw it the previous evening while bowhunting and you could see it in the dark.

[cmac]

We had 4 running around my farm this year. My buddy got a yearling this past opener and he tried to get its twin but had no shot. The other two are bucks - and they are running with a real nice regular whitetail.
We saw about 30 deer on Saturday and the piebalds were right in the mix. I've never seen them get shunned by the others. If we get the big piebald I'll post up its picture - its a big deer at least 200 plus with a good rack.

[bcw1]

Jim- the 4 acre piece right on the corner with the old house? Its been bought and sold several times in the three years I've been there. Won't perc and current septic is failing. Talbot County will allow a house no larger than the current structure. I live on the other side of the church.

[Jim Bright]

That's the one bcw1....I thought it was just under 10 acres though. Max size house is 1300 square feet i think.

[bcw1]

there is a parcel for sale around the corner with similar issues. its 8-10 acres. Its on Windy Hill road south of the 4 way stop. Maybe that was the one. listed for 125k. needless to say its generated a lot of interest. its under contract. big deer pulled out of there every year.

[Butthead]

bayside,

I goose hunt a 500 acre lease in talbot county, The farm is over run with fallow deer.

The question has been knocked around camp as to whether or not fallow deer and white tails inter breed.

Your deer sure does have all the markings of a fallow deer. I see them all the time, and have had them eating in our goose decoys while sitting in the pit. So I have gotten some pretty close up views of them. I would venture to say that if there is an abundance of piebald deer in talbot, then this may answer the question of whether or not they inter breed. You may have shot a half breed[grin]

[mmoss]

Bayside,
Where in Talbot County? I have seen a very similar looking deer at a farm I hunt off chapel road.

[hockeybuck]

I've been seeing piebalds in Baltimore County almost every year for the past 12 or so. This is an area that has a pretty good deer population as well. I have pictures from many years ago and have seen a doe and a small buck this year but haven't been close enough for a picture yet. They are with other deer almost all the time. I'm hoping they survive firearms season and I can get photos of them.
I'll post one if I do.

[MarkTakacs]

Definately a common sight both in rural and urban locals. About five years ago, I was standing toe to toe with one when me and my dog walked up on him in the early spring. (Thanks God Rusty was on a leash...swamp mud takes weeks to come out of golden ret. fur) I got a photo of him (6 pointer with very dark thin rack) with my Camtracker that fall and then asked that no one shoot him to see what happened next year......never saw him again.

About two to three years ago I saw what looked to a total albino from a good distance and almost ran off the road looking at the crazy beast. This was down the road from our farm in Dorchester Co. the same as my earlier sighting.

One can commonly be sighted down the road from my house. Going north on Jarrettsville Pike, at the top of the hill before Blenhein Rd. is GSP property that has a partial doe grazing in the field on the left for at least two years (or until it runs out in front of a soccer moms suburban!!). Effectionatly referred to as "whitie"

Mark

[hockeybuck]

[hockeybuck]

OOPS! Files were too big!
Here are a few pictures I've taken over the years.

[ReelSmith]

I've seen two of them over the last 8 years or so...one in PG County near Beltsville - an eight pointer that was all white, still in velvet which was white too...another in Howard County near Clarksville - another eight pointer... as the population increases I guess it will be more common