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RE: CWD total to 40 deer, 2.57% Infection rate.
 

Hey muchster why dont you get your facts straight before you jump to conclusions this is farm country more food is around then the deer herd can eat. Why dont you go out and shoot half your deer off so that you dont have to worry about your deer getting CWD.<img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>

(I can skin a buck or run a trout line)

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<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote<font size=1 face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica' id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>Now that you can't bait, how are all them deer going to survive if we have a harsh winter. <hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica' size=2 id=quote>
Pete: I see from your profile, you are also from WI. I think there was a few more baiters up your way than down here. Sometimes its best to just keep ones opinions to ones self. 50-75% ROTFLMAO You need to wake up.

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muckster,

There aren't THAT many deer anywhere in the world! Deer farms don't even have 150 deer per square mile! LMAO<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>. Not to many people bait down here, although I have seen farmers leave standing corn through the winter. When this baiting issue came up I was amazed to hear some people actually dump loads of shelled corn in the woods up north! I have heard of the occasional farmers who kick slt licks or mineral licks out on their land but that's about it and to be honest until this year I thought it WAS illegal to hunt over those spots. Just never gave it a thought because I'd rather have hunted funnels and edges than licks. Oh well, good luck on your hunt this weekend and please leave it better than you find it so the bowhunters have a good weekend next week, it should be real good then!

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Muckster,

<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote<font size=1 face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica' id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>People should alway's state there opinion. Why should I keep it to myself? Just cause someone doesn't like to here it.<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica' size=2 id=quote> You are right. That's what bulletin boards are all about. But hopefully, that opinion is an informed one, not some hysterical nonsense. On that point...<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica' id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>When other deer come to eat the bones from the dead deer guess what, you now have 50% to 75% CWD in the herd.<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica' size=2 id=quote> Hmmmm? where'd you get that bit of silliness from? Highest rate of occurence I was able to find out about among whitetail deer was 18%...and that was among deer on a deer farm out West. And with regard to 150 deer per square mile?!...WHERE did you get that from??

Again, let's go back:

&quot;Although CWD was first documented in free-ranging deer and elk in southeast Wyoming and northeast Colorado in the 1980s, it is likely the disease has been present at least 30 to 50 years.&quot;

And now deer are extinct in Wyoming and Colorado, aren't they? Oh that's right, there are now MORE deer out there!

...and...

“In the affected area of Wyoming and Colorado tests show only 4 to 5 percent of deer have the disease and the rate is much lower for elk.”

And here in Wisconsin, the rate is less than 3%, despite all of the hysterical claims by the DNR that our higher deer densities would mean much higher incidence rates.

...you were saying something about having blinders on??...


Edited by - TJD on 10/25/2002 09:08:26

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I was just on Bowsite.com and read a thread on the WI forum that I think a lot of you would be interested in. I'm not good at inserting threads, but I can say that the author is ridgeruler and he directs you to a dialogue that took place in CO? (I think). Anyway's two parties are discussing CWD and the ramifications and it becomes obvious that they are way far and beyond us as far as informed opinions. I would invite everyone to go have a look at it if you can decipher my directions.

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Jolly: Heres the link you refer to. http://www.deerforum.com/discus/mess...1852#POST10056
Just so you know, it comes from a deer farmers message board.

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Jolly and Nub: Thanks!

Especially read the posts written by the participant named &quot;Randy&quot;, who identifies himself as a veterinarian. I think the responses of the vets in New Zealand and Britian are particularly telling.

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Just to keep things in perspective...

&quot;Ridgeruler&quot; is a deerfarmer and a member of WOW (Whitetails Of Wisconsin), which is a deerfarmer's organization.

Now then, the deerfarming industry's &quot;ace in the hole&quot; throughout the CWD issue in WI and other states is that no captive deer has ever been found to have CWD. That &quot;ace&quot; turned into a joker not long ago when the first one was discovered in Portage County WI. Since then, others have been discovered as well.

The deerfarming industry is full-bore into &quot;damage control&quot; right now. Take it with a grain...no, make that a BAG...of salt.

JRW