The term `piebald`, used to identify a whitetail with at least one extra splotch of white hair, has an interesting origin.  ‘Pie’ means mixed up; ‘bald’ means having a white spot.  To a horseman, a ‘piebald’ is a horse with black and white splotches; one with brown and white splotches actually is known as a ‘skewbald’.

What a beautiful creature!

Also, don’t forget to check out all the blog posts for piebald deer. Start with this trophy buck

Here’s the back story:

“We did actually catch this buck on trail cams a few times over the last couple months. I’ve added one of those to the zip file I’m sending you from the night before I took him. The trail camera is about 500 yards south of the box stand I was sitting in and he came out of a field about 500 yards north of my stand. I noticed something in the field in the early dawn light but couldn’t make out what it was. Then it moved into a patch of hard woods that are about 200 yards from my stand just as the sun started to creep up.

As soon as the light hit him I saw the white all along the belly through my binaculars and knew it had to be him. He worked through the patch of woods as the sun barely made it up and was heading to the patch of pines that I knew to be a popular bedding area. I had to take him on the move, through the trees at 228 yards. He dropped in his tracks and I found later that I had shot him right through the heart.”

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Another beautiful piebald whitetail deer

It’s a beautiful deer regardless of the name you give it.

Unique coloration of mature whitetail buck

Another angle showing the unique coloration

A good angle showing the piebald (skewbald) coloration