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Hunting in a CWD world
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<blockquote data-quote="fairchaser" data-source="post: 5217201" data-attributes="member: 10373"><p>All our harvested deer, 100% have been tested for the last three years. We know exactly what the infection rate is on 18000 acres. The size of the herd size has not been affected that much. As you say, the deer will reproduce. The herd will survive CWD. Individual deer who catch CWD do not survive. Our infection rate is 50-60% for bucks and 25-30% for does. The infection rate for does could be lower because there is no preference for age in the harvest as there are for bucks. Essentially you have a large percentage of the deer herd with a much shorter life span than they would have otherwise. The dead heads are anecdotal but they do pile up. CWD is not the end of deer hunting. It just makes it less attractive than it once was.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fairchaser, post: 5217201, member: 10373"] All our harvested deer, 100% have been tested for the last three years. We know exactly what the infection rate is on 18000 acres. The size of the herd size has not been affected that much. As you say, the deer will reproduce. The herd will survive CWD. Individual deer who catch CWD do not survive. Our infection rate is 50-60% for bucks and 25-30% for does. The infection rate for does could be lower because there is no preference for age in the harvest as there are for bucks. Essentially you have a large percentage of the deer herd with a much shorter life span than they would have otherwise. The dead heads are anecdotal but they do pile up. CWD is not the end of deer hunting. It just makes it less attractive than it once was. [/QUOTE]
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