CWD Confirmed in Kansas
 

Well you can add Kansas to the list of states with CWD now...just had our first confirmed case in Cheyenne County....Katie bar the door! [:o]

RE: CWD Confirmed in Kansas
 

Hopefully your DNR doesn't come in with truckloads of corn and sharpshooters like they're doing here in Northern IL. It's ridiculous. [:@]

RE: CWD Confirmed in Kansas
 

I read that in the paper do think it will spread or do you guys think the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks can get it stopped since they caught it pretty early?

RE: CWD Confirmed in Kansas
 

It seems our folks at KDWP have their hands tied managing our herd by the politicians motivated by selling out our deer to big money and outfitters...doesn't help when the head man has on ownership interest in an outfitting operation[:'(] It's only one case and they have been sampling along the western borders for a few years so hopefully they can isolate it and halt or impede its progress.

RE: CWD Confirmed in Kansas
 

They will get a hold of it real quick. They have been random testing for years. They have done alot of things right over the years, that is why we have a quality heard. We are only estimated around 350,000 deer while other states boast in the millions. Probably one of those deer off Brokeback Mountain escaped and came down here and tried that funny stuff with one of our Monster Bucks. Not even our wildlife tolerates that around these parts.

RE: CWD Confirmed in Kansas
 

I'm not a CWD expert by any means. I live in Wis. and have not personally seen a deer that exibited the signs of the disease (later stages ). I've read where it is spread by nose to nose feeding or close contact feeding. In the wild it seems that at times deer also nose to nose feed, especially in picked grain fields where grain spillage has occured. However, in the case of farm raised deer, it is way more likely to happen by thenature of the way they are fed. Lookat how farm animals are fed. They are always close contact feeding. I believe that farm raised deer are responsible for a large part of the CWD problem in our wild deer. All it takes is for some fool to cut a hole in the fence for the farm deer to escape and you have a carrier mixing in with the wild population. This has happened many times. As far as I know, the purpose of farm raised deer is to provide big antlered specimens to game farms so that rich "hunters" can pay to shoot a "trophy" of a life time. I'm sure that older does and cull bucks go to market as venison, but I'm not sure if there is a need to produce these "trophy" animals unless they can be better controlled and kept disease free.I feel that our wildlife and enviornment are a higher priority. JMO

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Greg, your post is a good example of what many feel. You posted nicely, and my reply in no way is meant to discredit you personally. I dont agree with your opinion, though. Is it because I raise deer? Maybe, but also because of what Im being told. The same folks that tell you its nose to nose, tell me its taxidermy waste. Specimens coming from Colorado, for example, and coming in contact with wild deer. We are told the biologists do NOT know how it spreads, and clinically, it doesnt always spread under controls. By the way, Im also a taxidermist, go figure!

I dont want to start, nor will I answer, posts about hunting preserves, etc, as any hunter foolish enough to fight from within isnt worth the time. But Ill tell you this, I dont believe CWD is racing across the country, although its the hot new buzz word, and I also believe its present in many areas without our knowledge, and only the increased testing has exposed much of it. Hell, my livelihood depends on deer, so I dont take this stuff lightly!

Before some of you wish away the captive deer program, think about all the usages YOU have that are the result of captive deer. You can include research to the list, too. I keep hearing of the so-called "greed for a giant buck" etc. Its a much bigger picture then that. Turn that scenario around from our perspective...if its truly worth so much, we are going to risk loosing that much? Bingo.

RE: CWD Confirmed in Kansas
 

KDOW will likely have a knee jerk reaction although the truth is likely that Kansas deer has had CWD for decades being such a close proximity to Colorado

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Thanks Bill, I'm all for learning, but I didn't really see the point of your post. I thought it was kind of vague.

Before some of you wish away the captive deer program, think about all the usages YOU have that are the result of captive deer. You can include research to the list, too. I keep hearing of the so-called "greed for a giant buck" etc. Its a much bigger picture then that. Turn that scenario around from our perspective...if its truly worth so much, we are going to risk loosing that much? Bingo.

I really don't know of any usages I have that are the result of captive deer. What are they, Scents - Doe pee, meat, big bucks for preserves and research? That's all I can think of. Personally, I only eat venison that I have hunted, I don't use natural scents and I certainly don't hunt farm raised deer. As far as research, I'm not sure, what kind of research? Exactly, what kinds of things are the deer you raise used for? Maybe I have been benifitting from captive deer without even realizing it. Please enlighten me.

RE: CWD Confirmed in Kansas
 

I hope if they are thinking towards reducing herds that they should let the hunters do it.Here in WI they just hired sharpshooters for $100dollars a kill. I hope that they caught it early though cause I hate to see all that great deer hunting area be contaminated.