Post by charlieinthebush on Mar 13, 2015 6:38:43 GMT -5
CWD is more of conspiracy than anything. Govt-state research facilities seem to be the origins. Their careless studies, infecting scrapie into animals, then turning them loose victimized our wild herd, our crops and also our captive herds. Deer farmers test the animals for the safety of the herd. It's funny how you people who don't test the wild herd. Point fingers at those who do. That's as hypocritical as can be. At least we try. Why are wild deer, elk and moose always wanting to get into our pens and preserves? How do you know the ones that were in there from the beginning, didnt infect them? The CWD monitored deer are the victims of the untested, uncontrolled, govt CWD infected wild herd. Has it ever occurred to anyone that when a herd has been monitored for 10+ years and been negative all that time, that the cause is from an outside source? How can you say a negative herd for 10+ years spread CWD? Lmao! Was the wild herd on the other side of the fence 10+ yrs CWD negative? Just because there was a positive on a farm in 2010 and they found a wild pos in 12 doesn't hold any facts. Actually if you were smart you would think the opposite, for the effect of the 10+ yr negative herd all the sudden having a positive and the wild untested herd is on the other side of the fence. Suggests that its highly likely that the UNTESTED herd is the source. Its ignorant to argue something that isnt tested to be proven! Therefore you cant rightly conclude the farm spread the disease. Deer farmers test our deer by the most accurate CWD test known which requires the brain stem of the deer. Any time there is a CWD positive case in a preserve or on a farm the herd is eradicated for testing. Deer farmers follow usda protocol. There are currently no usda approved live CWD tests for deer farmers. All of our deer over a year old are tested,if there is a fatality. Deer farmers have what's called "cwd status". This means every deer that has commingled with our deer from other farms and the brothers, sisters, parents, grand sires and grand dams that have ever died. Were tested negative for CWD. However, numerous times. Government and state agencies have either not tested for CWD or used a live rectal test that is only 60% accurate. Is our wildlife and environment worth risking anything that is 60%? The live rectal live test is NOT usda approved. Everyone is so quick to blame deer farmers for the spread of disease. When we are the victims. Not to mention they are finding CWD prions in alfalfa stems and corn. Jeopardizing our foreign grain trade market. Why not buy cwd monitored elk from farmers for their reintroduction programs? It would be a lot cheaper, without the risk. This is a perfect example of how disease is spread incase you wanted to know. Oh! I forgot! The elk are going to Wisconsin where the Govt-state owned Charmany Farms Facility introduced cwd into the wild from infecting deer within the facility with CWD, then left their gates open!!!!
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
ELK CAPTURE IN KY COMPLETE
The 2015 capture phase of Wisconsin's elk reintroduction effort is now complete, with 28 elk awaiting transport to a new home in Jackson County, WI. DNR staff spent roughly four weeks working cooperatively with Kentucky Dept. of Fish and Wildlife Resources and other key partners to capture elk in eastern KY. In this first year of elk trapping, Wisconsin staff has laid a solid foundation for future capture efforts. Collaboration between WI and KY created a great opportunity to learn from one another regarding elk management and trapping techniques. Staff from both states were very aware that this project is funded as a result of support from partner organizations, and made every effort to run a cost-efficient program. Captured elk are currently being held in a four-acre pen in KY, where they will be closely monitored and receive daily care. They will undergo a stringent 120-day quarantine and health testing period, which will include an acclimation period in WI, before being released in and around the Black River State Forest in Jackson County. Barring any unforeseen problems or health testing issues, release should occur in early June. This is a multi-year effort, with an overall goal of bringing as many as to 150 elk from KY. As many as 75 elk will help start a new elk herd in Jackson County, while remaining elk will help bolster the current elk herd near Clam Lake. For more information, visit dnr.wi.gov and search keyword "elk." Then we have Colorado.
With CWD being a hot topic amongst the deer industry. We should educate the uneducated about its origin and what the govt and state agencies think about it. So, we will start off by taking a brief look at govt and state agencies and what they have done for all of our deer herds. There seems to be a lot of evidence that govt and state research facilities are the sources (plural) of CWD and for the spread of it. Here's an explanation for Colorado and wyoming's high CWD infection rate. There are no deer farms in Wyoming. Evidently the govt and state agencies don't think the CWD excuse is a big deal. Their actions sure look that way. It must not be as big of deal as people make it to be.
Origins of CWD: The first case of CWD was seen in 1967 in a captive mule deer at the Foothills Wildlife Research Station (operated by the Colorado Dept. of Wildlife) in Ft. Collins and was attributed then by station employees [10] to close confinement of deer to former (scrapie) sheep pasture or to horizontal transmission from sheep allowed [9] into the pens. The shortest known incubation time in deer is 17 months, dating the exposure back to 1965-66 or earlier. Surplus does were released back into the wild after fawning in the facility; the first case in free-ranging wild deer was seen in 1981. Other infected animals were shipped to zoos (Denver, Toronto, Laramie), game farms (see below), and similar research facilities in Colorado and Wyoming.
Example: Colorado fish and game officials held a news conference in 1998 stating they would continue to enjoy eating venison from untested deer and elk from epidemic strongholds because it had not been proven to transmit to human [10], a vacuous reassurance as no study has ever been conducted.
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
ELK CAPTURE IN KY COMPLETE
The 2015 capture phase of Wisconsin's elk reintroduction effort is now complete, with 28 elk awaiting transport to a new home in Jackson County, WI. DNR staff spent roughly four weeks working cooperatively with Kentucky Dept. of Fish and Wildlife Resources and other key partners to capture elk in eastern KY. In this first year of elk trapping, Wisconsin staff has laid a solid foundation for future capture efforts. Collaboration between WI and KY created a great opportunity to learn from one another regarding elk management and trapping techniques. Staff from both states were very aware that this project is funded as a result of support from partner organizations, and made every effort to run a cost-efficient program. Captured elk are currently being held in a four-acre pen in KY, where they will be closely monitored and receive daily care. They will undergo a stringent 120-day quarantine and health testing period, which will include an acclimation period in WI, before being released in and around the Black River State Forest in Jackson County. Barring any unforeseen problems or health testing issues, release should occur in early June. This is a multi-year effort, with an overall goal of bringing as many as to 150 elk from KY. As many as 75 elk will help start a new elk herd in Jackson County, while remaining elk will help bolster the current elk herd near Clam Lake. For more information, visit dnr.wi.gov and search keyword "elk." Then we have Colorado.
With CWD being a hot topic amongst the deer industry. We should educate the uneducated about its origin and what the govt and state agencies think about it. So, we will start off by taking a brief look at govt and state agencies and what they have done for all of our deer herds. There seems to be a lot of evidence that govt and state research facilities are the sources (plural) of CWD and for the spread of it. Here's an explanation for Colorado and wyoming's high CWD infection rate. There are no deer farms in Wyoming. Evidently the govt and state agencies don't think the CWD excuse is a big deal. Their actions sure look that way. It must not be as big of deal as people make it to be.
Origins of CWD: The first case of CWD was seen in 1967 in a captive mule deer at the Foothills Wildlife Research Station (operated by the Colorado Dept. of Wildlife) in Ft. Collins and was attributed then by station employees [10] to close confinement of deer to former (scrapie) sheep pasture or to horizontal transmission from sheep allowed [9] into the pens. The shortest known incubation time in deer is 17 months, dating the exposure back to 1965-66 or earlier. Surplus does were released back into the wild after fawning in the facility; the first case in free-ranging wild deer was seen in 1981. Other infected animals were shipped to zoos (Denver, Toronto, Laramie), game farms (see below), and similar research facilities in Colorado and Wyoming.
Example: Colorado fish and game officials held a news conference in 1998 stating they would continue to enjoy eating venison from untested deer and elk from epidemic strongholds because it had not been proven to transmit to human [10], a vacuous reassurance as no study has ever been conducted.