Muley or cross with whitetail?

[tim]

So seen this doe last night. Muley rump with a whitetail face. I don't see many muleys here, mainly whitetail. Outside of Coeur d alene, idaho.

 

[Colorado Cowboy]

Tail doesn't look muley to me either.

 

[BKC]

It looks like a muley except for the face. I would say a muley, a young doe.

 

[DoubleDropMuley]

Maybe Nate Strong will chime in !!!

 

[JimP]

I'm going with a young mule deer also.

 

[kidoggy]

probly just an old doe that got botox

 

[Hilltop]

Crosses are possible and really hard to tell without testing. This deer looks like a mule deer to me but I can see why you posted. Fun to consider- thanks for posting.

 

[Colorado Cowboy]

I remember reading something about mixed breeding a few years back. If I remember correctly, other than tissue/DNA sampling, the biologists look at the musk glands on the rear legs. Seems like I remember them writing that the glands are different from both breeds.

 

[wy-tex]

Mule deer, see quite a few with white colored tails.

 

[ScottR]

Mule deer IMO.

 

[Rich M]

I definitely see a mulie in the first photo. Some whitey characteristics around nose in 2nd photo but still has huge ears and that white rump.

Pretty deer.

 

[Alan Leone]

Looks like a mulie to me. There are some whitetail like characteristics but I do not think its anything other than a mulie doe.

 

[Jimbo]

Looks like a cross. I have harvested a couple of cross breeds in my lifetime in NE Wyoming. They had larger tails a little black tip on the tail, browner color of muley but grayer than whitetail. Horns were mixed. Main beam with tines off , and tines branching. I definitely think they inter breed. My first deer was a whitetail in 1962.