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<blockquote data-quote="Mike Belt" data-source="post: 4745205" data-attributes="member: 69"><p>I'm curious here....</p><p>I keep hearing CWD hits the older buck population more so than the rest of the herd. Why exactly? Usually bucks are solitary animals or may be in small bachelor groups. They generally don't travel far outside the rutting timeframe and they may not have the same home ranges or feeding areas as doe groups or families. In contrast does are usually in family groups. When feeding they eat in the same areas and there's probably a fair amount of grooming going on; generally a high number of animals in constant close proximity. </p><p></p><p>Is this "kill out the bucks" mentality because they actually have the disease or because during the rut when they may be traveling great distances through virgin territories they are more likely to come into contact with it and thus spread it? Is it because it takes a while for the disease to manifest itself and older bucks have simply been around longer thus potentially having had more opportunity to having had contact with the disease? If that's the case wouldn't older does be just as susceptible?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mike Belt, post: 4745205, member: 69"] I'm curious here.... I keep hearing CWD hits the older buck population more so than the rest of the herd. Why exactly? Usually bucks are solitary animals or may be in small bachelor groups. They generally don't travel far outside the rutting timeframe and they may not have the same home ranges or feeding areas as doe groups or families. In contrast does are usually in family groups. When feeding they eat in the same areas and there's probably a fair amount of grooming going on; generally a high number of animals in constant close proximity. Is this "kill out the bucks" mentality because they actually have the disease or because during the rut when they may be traveling great distances through virgin territories they are more likely to come into contact with it and thus spread it? Is it because it takes a while for the disease to manifest itself and older bucks have simply been around longer thus potentially having had more opportunity to having had contact with the disease? If that's the case wouldn't older does be just as susceptible? [/QUOTE]
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