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Post by BIGHORN on Sept 12, 2006 12:11:30 GMT -5
Has anybody ran across any dead deer in the woods or along creeks, rivers, ponds, etc?
There have been 4 found along the little Wanut in a 150 yard stretch that were found dead.
There have have been 10 here in Clay County that have been found dead or were sick.
Does anybody know of anything that is killing the deer herd?
A buddy was told by someone in the DNR that it is a "high-fever" and they are heading to water and dying. He said it would take a hard freeze before it would kill it off, whatever it is.
One person said it was something to do with CWD......
Anybody ran into this or heard anything about this or found any dead deer???
Shawn
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Post by Woody Williams on Sept 12, 2006 12:21:41 GMT -5
That sounds like EPIZOOTIC HEMORRHAGIC DISEASE or better known as EHD. This pops up every year in sometimes different places. Some sites with information on EHD. www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-10370_12150_12220-26647--,00.html www.vet.uga.edu/VPP/gray_book/FAD/blt.htmLooks like you'll have to copy and paste the Michigan one. It has some pictures there too. . |
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Post by Decatur on Sept 12, 2006 12:24:00 GMT -5
That's scary!
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Post by Woody Williams on Sept 12, 2006 12:26:54 GMT -5
One of Ma Nature's ways of trimming excessive deer. . |
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Post by eelriver on Sept 12, 2006 13:53:04 GMT -5
I saw a piece on Blue Tongue last year on Bill Jordon's Real Tree TV show. They were hunting the Milk River MT. area and found several dead deer as described above. It is a scary and cruel disease; the good news however is that it does not effect humans. I will be checking my Clay County farm later this week. A river splits my farm, so if it is in our area I can let you know.  |
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Post by BIGHORN on Sept 12, 2006 14:22:13 GMT -5
eelriver:
Where you located at in Clay County?
That's where I am from.
Shawn
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Post by eelriver on Sept 12, 2006 14:35:30 GMT -5
Bowling Green..........We own ground bordering the Eel south of 46.
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Post by pbr on Sept 12, 2006 21:01:19 GMT -5
EHD is bad business.
Ask the deer farmers what they fear the most and it wont be CWD. They fear an outbreak of EHD. It can wipe out their whole herd.
A few years back EHD wiped out a deer farmer's entire herd in Illinois. 19 animals went down.
The more congregated the animals are the worse it can be.
Have you contacted your local CO about this? He can arrange to have a biologist come down and make sure that it is EHD.
But, as others said that would be my bet too.
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Post by racktracker on Sept 12, 2006 21:39:03 GMT -5
Wasn't it up by Terre Haute that they had some of this last year?
Every year it seems like some deer die from it.
As I undertsand it, it is not 100% fatal.
It's an tough death for most though.
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Post by BIGHORN on Sept 13, 2006 14:52:43 GMT -5
Anybody else seen any of this in the other parts of the state?
Shawn
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Post by mbogo on Sept 14, 2006 5:18:40 GMT -5
EHD is not always fatal, some deer seem resistant to it but the survivors are often left with permanently swollen joints above the hooves. Apparently deer in the southern states are immune to it.
I've seen it happen several times in my area, but not recently thankfully.
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Post by RiverJim on Sept 14, 2006 6:21:01 GMT -5
Bowling Green..........We own ground bordering the Eel south of 46. I got stepfamily there. ....weirdos though |
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Post by danf on Sept 14, 2006 22:10:11 GMT -5
Bowshop owner said tonight that there's apparently been a few cases of it here in Putnam County, one deer was pulled out of the pond owned by our regional DNR Forester. Not sure where any other cases are in the area, but the forester's ground is between Greencastle and Glenn Flint Lake.
Shop owner's wife (I think that's who it was) called the DNR today and they didn't know anything about it anywhere.
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Post by BIGHORN on Sept 15, 2006 15:00:27 GMT -5
Figures, the DNR doesn't know much about anything.....
They have lost touch in most if not all things...
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Post by hoosier on Sept 18, 2006 21:08:52 GMT -5
A buddy found a very decomposed 15 point nontypical on his property lying in a ditch. I just got home from taking pics of the buck. It was found near Cory (Clay county) too. Such a shame!
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Post by mbogo on Sept 19, 2006 5:20:25 GMT -5
That is the reality of nature, it often times seems very cruel, but there is a purpose in everything.
For those who have not had to deal with it previously, take it as a reminder that you can not stockpile deer no matter how hard you try. Nature has a way of taking care of excess animals.
As for the DNR, they are for the most part dependent on citizens and landowners to notify them when there is a problem with wildlife. They do not have the manpower or the funds to patrol the state looking for problems.
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Post by ridgerunner on Sept 21, 2006 16:57:56 GMT -5
Rumor is they found 17 dead here in Vermillion County. First time in my 36 years I ever heard of deer dying in this county from EHD. The C.o. verified it though, EHD or blue tounge whatever you want to call it.
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Post by gbrown on Sept 24, 2006 7:07:02 GMT -5
I hunt clay county and this is the first i have heard of this. I will be on the look out for it a deer that has EHD is hard to miss. will let you know what I find out. This hurt a bunch of kentucky deer where i was hunting a few years ago.
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Post by BIGHORN on Sept 24, 2006 9:32:21 GMT -5
gbrown:
What area of Clay County do you hunt?
I live in Brazil.
Shawn
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Post by semisneak on Sept 24, 2006 18:39:59 GMT -5
My buddy foud a dead doe in a pond behind his house in sullivan county a few weeks ago. We didnt know about this ehd at the time.............we just thought it was weird.
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