The meat of the Fallow deer is referred to as the
“King of Venison” and has a tender texture and beef-like flavor. Fallow venison
is lower in cholesterol and has less than 5% fat.
Fallow deer are efficient converters of forage to
meat, grazing on an unusually wide range of grasses, legumes, and broadleaf
weeds. They thrive on any pasture that would support cattle, sheep, goats,
horses, antelope, and camelids
The fallow deer - Dama dama - is a species of
ruminant mammal belonging to the family Cervidae. European fallow deer are
present in the Point Reyes National Seashore, California, and Mendocino County
near Ridgewood Ranch, west of Redwood Valley, California; some of them are
leucistic.
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