These are beautiful skins that are soft and supple. The summer skins are a reddish brown speckled with white. The summer fallow deer skins are very similar to Axis deer from the Indian subcontinent. The hair length is approximately 0.5" long for the summer deer. One random adult deer weighed 7 lbs. (3.17 kg).
The summer skins are very rare - we only received 11 in 2007, 11 in 2008, and 22 in 2009.
Fallow deer are not endangered and are not subject to CITES. The animals are not killed just for their skins. These deer were hunted for meat. The skin is saved and tanned.
A USFWS export permit is required for shipments outside of the United States.