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Rare Black Deer Born In Colorado

Farm Family Names Fawn 'Midnight'

POSTED: 11:04 am MDT June 15, 2005
UPDATED: 12:00 pm MDT June 15, 2005

You see lots of deer on Colorado's Western Slope but not very many that look like Midnight -- an all-black deer born this past weekend in Loma, Colo.

His owners are fawning over Midnight, the rare black deer.

Wildlife experts say an all-black deer is even more rare than an albino deer. They say most hunters will never see a black deer in their lifetime.

Midnight was born on a family farm and his owners didn't know what they had at first.

"It reminded me of a bear cub, and it was just black and it was chasing that doe around and I thought, 'What do we got in there?" said farmer Steve Bittle.

"Thought it as just ... it was weird," said Midnight's owner Hayley Bittle.

Midnight also has a strange feature -- blue eyes.

The Bittle family say they've never seen anything like Midnight in all the years that they've been raising animals on the farm.

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