DOE.....But it is the craziest doe you've ever seen

[CorsicaSportingGoods]

I killed a doe right at dark. It took me two hours to find her. I gutted her and thought her tail looked odd. I dragged her out and got her to the butcher. Once i saw her in the light, I was thoroughly confused.

The doe had a black tail. She was two toned..all black on top and gray on bottom. She had spots and looked like a sika deer except she was 103 pounds.

The butcher started taking pics and trying to figure it out.

The only thing we could come up with was that it was a sika and whitetail crossbred??? In Talbot County?

 

[itsslow98]

Id say its possible. Is that the picture just making the eye look weird?

 

[tosainu1]

kinda strange ear set for a whitetail, looks sika-ish, but it looks like her tail might have broken off and the coloration is weird as well for a whitetail... it's the Chupacornbra...

 

[outrider58]

Wierd

 

[Kman]

Looks like a fallow deer, but that would be very unlikely for this area.

 

[joemac]

I'd say simply a color mutation. I don't think whitetails and sika can interbreed, otherwise you would see it out west where there are many more elk and the ranges cross.

 

[Inigoes]

What does it taste like?

Weird too?

 

[iH8DemLibz]

I didn't think my Eastern Corn and Texas Rat could breed successfully until I saw a clutch of 14 eggs in her cage.

I don't see why a Sika and a Whitetail couldn't make that leap.

Fallow deer below. Same colors, but head doesn't match.

 

[Sportstud4891]

Swamp donkey!!

 

[Sticky]

It probably is a fallow deer in that area... I have hunted them for years over there on a buddy's lease.. apparently they escaped from a nearby preserve and love the habitat.. I have seen some really nice fallow deer taken on the shore in this area...

Those colorations are also strikingly similar to a sika deer in the coat..

 

[Sticky]

A young Sika hind (doe)

 

[wilcam47]

Reverse piebald...prob just a rare pigment/dna mutation...like antler doe or piebald, or albino's.

 

[NormH3]

I think it was a doe..a deer...a female deer.

 

[foxtrapper]

Looks like a fallow doe to me. Appears to have the light colored eyes, plus the markings.

 

[dckhd247]

WT and sika can't breed. Sika is an elk.

Not sure if it's fallow but the black can mean its melanistic. Piebald are albinistic.

 

[CorsicaSportingGoods]

So apparently a FALLOW Deer...Sticky you are correct! Much like Sika deer, a herd of Fallow Deer escaped their pen in Talbot County and have bred like rabbits in Longwoods. So certainly my first and now I will be on the lookout for a Buck.

I am going to get the Hide tanned.

 

[CorsicaSportingGoods]

And yes, the eyes looked weird and it looked like a donkey. Not a white hair on the deer. Even the belly was a strange color

 

[Sticky]

So apparently a FALLOW Deer...Sticky you are correct! Much like Sika deer, a herd of Fallow Deer escaped their pen in Talbot County and have bred like rabbits in Longwoods. So certainly my first and now I will be on the lookout for a Buck.

I am going to get the Hide tanned.

The lease I used to hunt was very close to Longwoods... that would be a fallow deer if you are hunting in that area for sure..

There are some really nice fallow stags around there too, keep a sharp eye... Cool thing about fallow deer there is that you may see em brown, black, white, all color phases, nothing like you'll ever see in a whitetail or Sika..