What is this deer?
11-10-2003, 07:16 PM
#25
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: south western, wy USA
Posts: 496
RE: What is this deer?
I can assure anybody that looks at this picture it is NOT an elk
tail is to long
legs are to long and skinny
it is way to small (a calf elk ways well over 140 lbs)
colors are all wrong
i would say it is a fallow (spots body tail) of some sort
tail is to long
legs are to long and skinny
it is way to small (a calf elk ways well over 140 lbs)
colors are all wrong
i would say it is a fallow (spots body tail) of some sort
11-10-2003, 07:21 PM
#26
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Kerrville, Tx. USA
Posts: 2,722
RE: What is this deer?
Definately a fallow deer. There are 3 colors: chocolate, spotted (look a lot like axis), and solid white. Pretty weird looking breed. Their antlers have brow tines like an elk and then sweep back to a palmation, not unlike a cariboo. They do eat well. That one should be tender.
Elk, red deer, and sika are all genetically related and can interbreed. I know a guy who bred a bull elk with sika does (150-200lbs). They bred and had babies with no problem, but the young was as big as mama at 3-4 months of age.
For the uneducated, there are many so called " game ranches" in Texas that started many years ago. Because of hogs, old fences, a lot of exotics have broken out of these ranches and spread to " nongame ranches" . I have one like bobo. We have blackbuck antelope, axis, fallow, and sika deer. All game is wild and freeranging because there are no high fences in the area. I happen to think that axis is the best eating deer out there. It is leaner than beef, but has some marbling in the meat to make it more tender and jucier than whitetail. They are also bigger than the whitetail in my area, by about 50 lbs.
Elk, red deer, and sika are all genetically related and can interbreed. I know a guy who bred a bull elk with sika does (150-200lbs). They bred and had babies with no problem, but the young was as big as mama at 3-4 months of age.
For the uneducated, there are many so called " game ranches" in Texas that started many years ago. Because of hogs, old fences, a lot of exotics have broken out of these ranches and spread to " nongame ranches" . I have one like bobo. We have blackbuck antelope, axis, fallow, and sika deer. All game is wild and freeranging because there are no high fences in the area. I happen to think that axis is the best eating deer out there. It is leaner than beef, but has some marbling in the meat to make it more tender and jucier than whitetail. They are also bigger than the whitetail in my area, by about 50 lbs.
11-10-2003, 07:35 PM
#27
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Harford Co. Maryland
Posts: 1,574
RE: What is this deer?
It was about 140. Not the heaviest thing in the record book but was my first harvest for the season.
Don' t poke fun my friend, the picture doesn' t do justice for it.
Put away your peace pipe and come back to earth.
