Father Hennipen State Park buck

Here are some photos of the Father Hennipen State Park buck.Unfortunately this buck had shed his antlers when I took these photos. But I wouldn’t leave you all hanging so if you go to You Tube, you can see him with his antlers. Someone with the name wahkontonkadahl posted a video of him titled; “white buck in woods.”
If you search “albino buck”, the video comes up on the first page, third one from the bottom.
As I was saying earlier, this is a big bodied buck. I’m going to say all of 200# maybe more. Hopefully this is where my photos come in. I have a photo of him standing next to other albinos and a couple brown deer.He’s definitely much larger than the other deer.
I think this guy is the cause for all the albinos around this area. For sure a dominant breeder.

Here are the video’s

YouTube Link one

YouTube Link two

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I think this guy is the cause for all the albinos around this area. For sure a dominant breeder.

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Although pretty, and not real common, it is a sign of bad genes, and inbreeding. They should not be protected, IMO.

Those horns look pretty weak for a deer that size. I would imagine he is probably on the decline to to age, and may not be a breeder as such anymore. We saw some 2-3.5 year bucks in that area this year that would have handed him his I am pretty sure.

Just my $.02.

Yes, bad for the herd is right. With him living in the park, it looks like he gets a free ride. I doubt the DNR would ever open hunting there. The residents of Isle would revolt, as they love those deer for tourist attractions.
Chris,
From what I understand,both the buck and the doe have to carry the albino gene to produce albino offspring I’m sure there are others bucks that would kick this ones
My point was that, unless a brown buck carries the albino gene, this albino buck is the only one capable of producing albino offspring.

Interesting! Thanks!