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Originally Posted by Jerry Harlow
If the deer is a buck, it will be forced to move to a different area to find a territory of its own after it matures. This avoids inbreeding. So a white or piebald deer has a 50/50 chance of being forced from the area where it is first seen and for the first year or a little more.
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It’s been 6 weeks since I posted that picture of the partially piebald fawn that’s been in the back yard. Pretty much seeing it and its sibling and mom on a fairly regular basis.
As in yesterday – they showed up twice so I got some more pictures as seen below.
It looks like the piebald is beginning to show buttons on its head so it may be a buck. And its sibling looks like it might be a buck also. Will keep watching to confirm. What do you guys and gals think?
And notice the close ups of that regular fawn and the ugly markings on its head and face I suspect from ticks and deer flies or ?? The piebald on the other hand looks pretty clean.
Will keep an eye open and hope to get some more pictures as they grow up.
But as Jerry predicts, if it is a buck, it may get booted to a different area. Be nice to see it once in a while tho. Of course, that assumes it gets through the deer season. And hopefully the other one will do OK despite the parasites on its face.
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