I am not saying that it cannot happen. Another was just the opposite, everything was whitetail except the antlers, which had that distinctive mule deer fork to them. * The hybrids were always mule deer, and three were hybrids. It is just a whitetail with a split G-2. Whitetails almost always have brown rumps. On several occasions during the winter and spring of 1990--91we observed and photographed three female hybrid deer west ofLaBarge, Wyoming, in the Green River Basin. That assumption was wrong, but it also wasn’t caused by white-tailed bucks crossbreeding mule deer does and begetting sterile bucks. The Rump. More of the area's attributes include mule deer with the right genetics and a management philosophy to make record-book dreams come true. Whitetail rear-end, shoot during whitetail season. 1988 (p. 1665) found that an F₁ hybrid sired by an O. virginianus male produced mature spermatozoa (though many showed abnormalities), while an F₁ individual from the reciprocal cross produced none. Lots of whitetails have split G-2s, but this doesn’t tell you whether it is a hybrid. In regards to sterility, I have read studies that do not believe hybrids are 100% sterile. Mule deer rear-end, shoot during mule deer season. Hybrids tails look like whitetails, but are darker, a bit longer than the normal mule deer tail and they have a slight black tip. Genentic testing would be the reliable "proof" of a hybrid. The hybrids were easy to spot. Note the intermediate appearance of the tail. Mule deer are different. Almost all the “hybrids” hunters say they shot, are not hybrids. After all, that is where mule deer get their name. One, like Ben’s deer had a mule deer tail, mule deer ears, mule deer face markings, but whitetail antlers. Reply. “Everyone at the time assumed the decline had a single cause, because it affected the mule deer’s entire range. A buck whitetail mule deer hybrid. A whitetail buck with matching kickers off the G2's is not a mule deer. He added that researchers at Texas A&M successfully produced a hybrid buck, but it turned out to be sterile--one more mystery in the hybrid equation. ... We can argue about what the book says for days and no I have never actually seen a whitetail mount a fallow deer. Hybrids are rare, and rarities don’t trigger population declines.” Spurring Action I had expressed an idea a few years back that people back East should us mule deer semen to their best whitetail does to make mule deer hybrids and thus diversify their herd into also raising mule deer looking stock to increase their*sales to harvest facilities. Jun 22, 2012 ... Interbreeding between whitetails and fallow deer cannot result in hybrid offspring, it is biologically impossible. A casual glance and "it's a hybrid" opinion is not proof of interbreeding. The Ears. * Harvest facilities have always wanted mule deer. A mule deer has much more white on their face than a whitetail. Though whitetail-mule deer hybrids have been observed in eastern Wyoming (Oceanak 1978), they have not been previously reported from western Wyoming. "I suspect milder winters are keeping mule deer bucks at higher elevations until after the rut, which allows whitetail bucks more opportunity to breed with mule deer does in estrous," he said. Wishart et al. They will interbreed with mule deer, but usually those cross-breeds are sterile. In most cases, the mule deer will have significantly longer ears than a whitetail. Mule deer also have much darker foreheads than whitetails, too. This has come up before, but I thought the general consensus was to check the rump and not the antlers, face, etc. With an overall estimated population of 3,700 mulies whose average age is between 4 and 5 years, the Paunsaugunt Unit draws the attention of far more hunters who want a hunting tag to go there each year than it has tags available. Some are, some aren't. Likewise, a mule deer that doesn't fork in the back or has good brows is not a whitetail.
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