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    Weird genetic traits

    Have you ever come across weird genetic traits in a small local population?

    I have 2 separate spots with odd traits that are common there, but nowhere else nearby....

    My Father’s property has a high prevalence of deer with double white patches on their necks. I never though much of it, just a thing in the area and something we used to identify potential offspring of specific does and/or bucks.

    I noticed this year, however, a doe group with exactly 50% expression of another anomaly I don’t think I have seen elsewhere.... white patches on the backs of the ears. It is almost like these deer have evolved “white flags” for when their ears are alert. This is a doe group of 8 does and fawns combined and exactly 4 of them have the trait. It is not a “lighter” patch, or a bare patch... it is a stark white patch.

    What do y’all think about this? Normal, or odd????














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    #2
    One thing it is not is evolution.
    Crazy trait..sure, just like melanistic or albino.

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      #3
      Any pics of deer without it? As I sat in the stand this weekend, I noticed the same white behind the ear on a few deer. As I looked closer at all of them, they all had it.

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        #4
        Originally posted by SAC View Post
        Any pics of deer without it? As I sat in the stand this weekend, I noticed the same white behind the ear on a few deer. As I looked closer at all of them, they all had it.


        Let me try to transfer pics from my computer... the other 4 didn’t have them at all.


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          #5
          I have a solid black fox squirrel and a solid white fox squirrel on my lease.

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            #6
            Yea, they are all under 13 inch's or spikes.

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              #7
              Originally posted by AntlerCollector View Post
              I have a solid black fox squirrel and a solid white fox squirrel on my lease.
              How much would you charge me to come and kill the white one?


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                #8
                How much would you charge me to come and kill the white one?


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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Dirtymike View Post
                  Yea, they are all under 13 inch's or spikes.


                  Actually, all the ones pictured are does....


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                    #10
                    Okay, apparently I don’t keep many pictures of does or deer looking away with ears alert... but, here are a few I found paroozing through.

                    I did find examples of some white behind the ears in most places I hunt. But absolutely nothing as stark white and defined as the doe group posted in the first post.












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                      #11
                      Originally posted by Snowflake Killa View Post
                      How much would you charge me to come and kill the white one?


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                      No! I'm hoping it will make some more.

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                        #12
                        Originally posted by IkemanTX View Post
                        Actually, all the ones pictured are does....


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                        sorry, meant where i hunt that is the weird genetic trait...

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                          #13
                          Deer in our area have the double throat patch and a few have the white ear patch, some have a white dot on the ear. Some bucks exhibit short brow tines, I mean short, like less than 2 inches. Even different coat colors. Trait differences, absolutely. Evilution? Think not.

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                            #14
                            Doe in my yard white patch ear target
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                              #15
                              We have 4-5 bucks running around our place that have a split G2's on both sides. Pretty cool gene to have around.

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