What can REALLY be done about CWD?

[Creek]

I likely will never have one tested.
How much trust does anyone have in accurate test results?
Maybe about the same amount of trust you're getting the same deer back you brought there to begin with.
To err is human.

 

[WORM82]

Act like it was never discovered and hunt like normal

 

[iowavf]

This was off a post on a website her in Iowa a guy posted.
Almost all the bucks we found have been hard horn. Some just died in November when it warmed up. Around 15 bucks so far. Our population is way down compared to normal I know we will find more when we start shed hunting.This is on about 1000 acres. The attached picture is just a sampling early on. This is in SE Marion Co around North and South Cedar Creek.

 

[Harold Money jr]

Boy, they grow em big up there!!

 

[Bone Collector]

This was off a post on a website her in Iowa a guy posted.
Almost all the bucks we found have been hard horn. Some just died in November when it warmed up. Around 15 bucks so far. Our population is way down compared to normal I know we will find more when we start shed hunting.This is on about 1000 acres. The attached picture is just a sampling early on. This is in SE Marion Co around North and South Cedar Creek.View attachment 209268

Those are all confirmed dead from CWD??

 

[iowavf]

Those are all confirmed dead from CWD??

According to the person who owns the property they were all found dead with no apparent sign for there death. Several counties in Iowa hit pretty hard with reports of numerous dead deer found by creeks and rivers.

 

[MickThompson]

According to the person who owns the property they were all found dead with no apparent sign for there death. Several counties in Iowa hit pretty hard with reports of numerous dead deer found by creeks and rivers.

That doesn't sound like CWD

 

[iowavf]

That doesn't sound like CWD

You are correct, I asked the guy and it was EHD not CWD according to the DNR.

 

[DayDay]

Sounds a lot like EHD in Iowa. According to the following 3-DEC-2023 article, EHD is relatively new to Iowa (first hit in 2012) and deer are harder hit by it due to less resistance in the population compared to deer in areas that have had EHD in the past.

Hundreds of deer fall to Iowa’s most widespread outbreak of EHD

Meanwhile, reports of chronic wasting disease continue to ramp up

www.thegazette.com

The virus has infected deer across most of Iowa this year and is the most widespread outbreak documented by the DNR so far.

There have been reports of deaths in 76 of the state's 99 counties, and more identifications are possible during the upcoming hunting seasons in December

Edited to add: I didn't see the post just above before posting this. (I think I had the page opened but hadn't refreshed...)

 

[JCDEERMAN]

That doesn't sound like CWD

You are correct, I asked the guy and it was EHD not CWD according to the DNR.

Yea EHD is a different animal. Wreaks havoc ever so often. 2007, 2019 come to mind in my area

 

[DayDay]

You are correct, I asked the guy and it was EHD not CWD according to the DNR.

Oops, I missed this post earlier. I thought that may have been the case.

 

[iowavf]

Oops, I missed this post earlier. I thought that may have been the case.

Ya the guy posted it was CWD . I'm not that familiar with either so I asked him.

 

[deerhunter10]

I am a little surprised we didn't deal with ehd this year. Not to hijacked the thread by any means. But as dry as we got. Probably the drought hit a little late I guess for major issues.

 

[mike243]

Heard this morning this was our 2nd driest year on record

 

[Creek]

Heard this morning this was our 2nd driest year on record

For all of TN or just your area?

 

[mike243]

Not sure caught the tail end of the weather

 

[Bone Collector]

According to the person who owns the property they were all found dead with no apparent sign for there death. Several counties in Iowa hit pretty hard with reports of numerous dead deer found by creeks and rivers.

Sounds like EHD

 

[mike243]

Found the article last night said for ETn it stated for the fall