WHAT IS BLUE TONGUE?
09-08-2005, 10:14 PM
#2
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Brockport, NY
Posts: 613
RE: WHAT IS BLUE TONGUE?
I believe you are refering to Epizooic Hemoragic Disease, or EHD. You cant stop it. Its carried by the black midge, or black fly, or gnat, depending on how "into" bugs you are. Deer contract it, and start showing signs right about this time of year. Swollen mucus membranes, ruptured tubercles in the lungs, bleeding, swollen tongue, unable to swallow, and usually found dying near water. Once they have it, its almost always not reversible in the wild.
The irony is...all you guys in here who clobber me because me and others raise captive reared whitetails, and tell me it should be illegal, etc etc? Many states have deer farmers who are trying to find antibiotics to administer to deer with EHD symptoms. IF they can survive, the offspring have a much less chance of gettin it. Plus, guys are breeding with EHD resistent stock from the south too.
The irony is...all you guys in here who clobber me because me and others raise captive reared whitetails, and tell me it should be illegal, etc etc? Many states have deer farmers who are trying to find antibiotics to administer to deer with EHD symptoms. IF they can survive, the offspring have a much less chance of gettin it. Plus, guys are breeding with EHD resistent stock from the south too.
09-09-2005, 08:03 AM
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Rural Kansas... Where Life is Good
Posts: 4,139
RE: WHAT IS BLUE TONGUE?
My hunting areas got hit hard by this back in the mid 90's. The local biologist estimated 1/3 - 1/2 of the deer population in the county,died from it. Found a lot of dead deer that year, more racks and skulls than shed antlers even. And vast majority of them were next to water.
09-11-2005, 08:00 PM
#7
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: DeFuniak Spr.Florida
Posts: 4,329
RE: WHAT IS BLUE TONGUE?
I talked to a guy here that has a deer farm.He said he'd brought in some deer from the north and the"no see um's"or sand gnats gave them the disease but the southen deer had built up an immunity.
09-19-2005, 01:37 PM
#8
Typical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: NC
Posts: 845
RE: WHAT IS BLUE TONGUE?
ORIGINAL: FlDeerman
I talked to a guy here that has a deer farm.He said he'd brought in some deer from the north and the"no see um's"or sand gnats gave them the disease but the southen deer had built up an immunity.
I talked to a guy here that has a deer farm.He said he'd brought in some deer from the north and the"no see um's"or sand gnats gave them the disease but the southen deer had built up an immunity.
09-19-2005, 01:42 PM
#9
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: WC FL
Posts: 26,323
RE: WHAT IS BLUE TONGUE?
DIAA Vet Pages - Blue Tongue
Bluetongue is a viral disease of sheep that is transmitted by biting ...
bluetongue virus (BLU) include sheep, goats, cattle, buffaloes, deer and antelopes. ...
http:/www.diaa.org/bluetng.htm
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Bluetongue is a viral disease of sheep that is transmitted by biting ...
bluetongue virus (BLU) include sheep, goats, cattle, buffaloes, deer and antelopes. ...
http:/www.diaa.org/bluetng.htm
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09-20-2005, 07:19 PM
#10
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Caledonia, NY
Posts: 773
RE: WHAT IS BLUE TONGUE?
ORIGINAL: kshunter
My hunting areas got hit hard by this back in the mid 90's. The local biologist estimated 1/3 - 1/2 of the deer population in the county,died from it. Found a lot of dead deer that year, more racks and skulls than shed antlers even. And vast majority of them were next to water.
My hunting areas got hit hard by this back in the mid 90's. The local biologist estimated 1/3 - 1/2 of the deer population in the county,died from it. Found a lot of dead deer that year, more racks and skulls than shed antlers even. And vast majority of them were next to water.
Edit...nevermind....good ole Bill already made that clear....
