Not in Ohio!

[3undr]

a friend of mine called last week and told me that his buddy just shot a deer but didn"t know what kind of deer it was. At first he said a buck was chaseing a cow elk or something so when he got the chance he shot it. After kooking at the doe they still didn't know what the deer was, it had a white behind and under the neck it was grey instead of being white. They contacted the game warden and then looked it up on the web.  RED DEER! in west central Ohio must have got out of someone's pen at one time or another and was surviving. Do you think they will cross with WHITE TAILS. I don't really like the thought of non native deer in the state. teel me what you think

[jsweka]

I highly doubt they would be able to cross with whitetails.  Red deer are the European equivalent of our elk and where elk and whitetails overlap they don't cross.

I think it's always best to eliminate non-natives ASAP.

[magnus]

I agree. Isn't that how CWD is spred? Don't need that!

Keeping the Faith!
Magnus

[Cherokee Scout]

I was scouting in early September in southern Ohio and saw a deer cross the road in front of me. It looked like an all back deer to me.

[Steve H.]

"It looked like an all back deer to me."

Fallow deer regularly produce a black color phase. WT of course do to but not very often.  There use? to be fallow deer in KY at LBTL's.

[Follower]

There was a 300 lb red deer shot in Alabama a couple weeks ago.

[KellyG]

Wow that is not good, the can cross with elk. If I am not miss taken.

[Hill Hunter]

there is a rare black color phase of white tail deer, not sure of the spelling, melinistic.

[stevewills]

there still is fallow deer in kentucky,land between the lakes