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    Melanistic (Black) Red Deer

    So i took my nephew and another dad son combo out for a hunt in the weekend trying to get some meat for the freezer and get onto a deer for my nephew.

    Managed a nice eating red yearling in the evening and went for a look in the morning and ended up shooting this thing stuffing her face on the crop paddock
    I initially thought it was a fallow but i have never seen fallow there in 13 years of hunting the property
    On closer inspection and talking to a few fellow hunters im pretty sure that its a Melanistic (Black) Red Deer
    Im after a bit more information on them if anyone knows or has anything?

    The deer was only young, yearling or 2 year old and when i skinned it, it had black fatty around the tail (which fallow don't have)
    Lets hope it doesn't blow up here as it did on facebook haha im sure there's quite a few less keyboard warriors here

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    Not sure why the photo of the rifle is there!??
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    Nice rifle, have you got a picture of the Black Red deer?
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    Hungarian fallow?

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    Half breed ?
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    that's what i thought when first looking at it
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    short stumpy tail like a red
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    Quote Originally Posted by burtonator View Post
    short stumpy tail like a red
    Sure is a strange one, as stated above could well be a cross between the two species.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nathan F View Post
    Half breed ?
    Fallow and Reds can't crossbreed, two different genus, fallow = dama dama, red = cervus
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst View Post
    Fallow and Reds can't crossbreed, two different genus, fallow = dama dama, red = cervus
    The day you say something cant happen in nature, it does
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gibo View Post
    The day you say something cant happen in nature, it does
    Yup I crossed a cat with a dog and got a cog. Then I crossed a goat with a deer and got a gear. Now going for a gear cog and reckon that if I succeed then that would be quite differential. Ha ha ha ha
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    It sure looks like fallow deer features, is the tail like a red deer or longer like the fallow?

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    Is this the first moose shot in NZ this century?
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    I recall a Red of the that colour when I was farming them. Just one. It was born on the place and stayed that colour until it was sent to the works as a 2 year old. Its mother had been captured out of the scrub (Wairarapa) and was an ordinary Red. To me, yours is another one. Too thick in the neck and big in the head for a Fallow doe.
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