A very eventful day around here... A once in many lifetimes experience! Mark saw this lil' feller run out in front of a car - thought it was a lost baby goat. Stopped to get it, and WOW!! A real Albino Whitetail Deer. Just hours old, but doing fine. No Momma deer around. Another car nearly hit it in front of Mark... Well, he is THE neatest thing any of us ever saw. And such a 'freak of nature' that only 1 in more than a million are even born. He took his bottle of food, followed us around the house, doing great. So, we called the Zoo & Fossil Rim, who were both interested, but going to send him to a Rehab farm. Maybe, he will make it in captivity somewhere and be appreciated. So rare... Sure wanted to keep him tho, but not the thing to do. And not LEGAL either. Here are a couple of pix to show you. He was snow white, pink eyes, ears, nose and hooves. Kids called him POWDER. He was SO small. That is my shoe lying beside him... WOW..how cool is that?? Pass this around; a lot of folks have never and will probably never see even another picture of an Albino deer fawn... Snopes surprisingly has something to say about this story and pics: http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/albinodeer.asp thanx, janie!
I didn't even know they existed, thats really cool hope it does well, great that you did the right thing, i know a lot of people wouldn't "The Albino Deer is one of the rarest animals you will come across in North America today. They are currently on the endagenered specie list, meaning that it is illegal to own or shoot an albino deer. If you do spot one it is recommended that you contact your local authority to keep them aware there is or may be an endangered animal in your area"
We've had several albino calves born on our place over the years. They are very seceptable to sunburns and they eventually go blind. Marsh
thats 3 we seen in last 6 weeks but only on tv or photos never in real life some peppol get all the luck there was a white stag in the south of england that got killed in the summer then about 4 weeks ago was on the tv that it looks like it has had a son as there is a baby white deer just been born in the same part of england will have a look around for pic`s of them
link to white deer calf in england first link is the stag 2nd is the calf can only find the two on different BBC news channels sites http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire/7084361.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/7073122.stm
