Deer Feeding / Chronic Wasting
#1
Deer Feeding / Chronic Wasting
From what I know cwd is spread from saliva of one deer to another, and I see all these commercials for feeders where a deer basically eats feed from a 4" tube from a feeder, personally I would like to say if you're going to feed, do it with a broadcast feeder, not a tube style, while cwd may not be in your area yet, let's keep it that way, and if it is already in your area, you probably shouldn't feed, but if you're going to anyway, broadcast would seem to be a better delivery method than a tray or tube for a deer to feed from.
#2
RE: Deer Feeding / Chronic Wasting
If you have cwd in your area its going to spread regardless whether your feeding or not. This time of the year the deer tend to yard up in big herds and eat the same food sources anyway. Theres no way to prevent it.
#3
RE: Deer Feeding / Chronic Wasting
ORIGINAL: wis_bow_huntr
If you have cwd in your area its going to spread regardless whether your feeding or not. This time of the year the deer tend to yard up in big herds and eat the same food sources anyway. Theres no way to prevent it.
If you have cwd in your area its going to spread regardless whether your feeding or not. This time of the year the deer tend to yard up in big herds and eat the same food sources anyway. Theres no way to prevent it.
#4
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 575
RE: Deer Feeding / Chronic Wasting
ORIGINAL: salukipv1
From what I know cwd is spread from saliva of one deer to another, and I see all these commercials for feeders where a deer basically eats feed from a 4" tube from a feeder, personally I would like to say if you're going to feed, do it with a broadcast feeder, not a tube style, while cwd may not be in your area yet, let's keep it that way, and if it is already in your area, you probably shouldn't feed, but if you're going to anyway, broadcast would seem to be a better delivery method than a tray or tube for a deer to feed from.
From what I know cwd is spread from saliva of one deer to another, and I see all these commercials for feeders where a deer basically eats feed from a 4" tube from a feeder, personally I would like to say if you're going to feed, do it with a broadcast feeder, not a tube style, while cwd may not be in your area yet, let's keep it that way, and if it is already in your area, you probably shouldn't feed, but if you're going to anyway, broadcast would seem to be a better delivery method than a tray or tube for a deer to feed from.
#5
RE: Deer Feeding / Chronic Wasting
ORIGINAL: zrexpilot
I have to agree, deer interact with one another their whole life, even licking each other. This thing about feeding causing the spread of disease is nonsense, about up there with global warming.
ORIGINAL: wis_bow_huntr
If you have cwd in your area its going to spread regardless whether your feeding or not. This time of the year the deer tend to yard up in big herds and eat the same food sources anyway. Theres no way to prevent it.
If you have cwd in your area its going to spread regardless whether your feeding or not. This time of the year the deer tend to yard up in big herds and eat the same food sources anyway. Theres no way to prevent it.
If it in fact IS up there with global warming, then it IS something to be concerned with!
#6
RE: Deer Feeding / Chronic Wasting
ORIGINAL: zrexpilot
I have to agree, deer interact with one another their whole life, even licking each other. This thing about feeding causing the spread of disease is nonsense, about up there with global warming.
ORIGINAL: wis_bow_huntr
If you have cwd in your area its going to spread regardless whether your feeding or not. This time of the year the deer tend to yard up in big herds and eat the same food sources anyway. Theres no way to prevent it.
If you have cwd in your area its going to spread regardless whether your feeding or not. This time of the year the deer tend to yard up in big herds and eat the same food sources anyway. Theres no way to prevent it.
#7
RE: Deer Feeding / Chronic Wasting
Vermont does not allow the feeding of deer...and when you talk to anyone from Fish and Game here in Vermont, they will tell you that CWD is the reason for this. They wont even let you put minerals out or anything. Food plots are the only legal thing here.
#8
RE: Deer Feeding / Chronic Wasting
ORIGINAL: crokit
If it in fact IS up there with global warming, then it IS something to be concerned with!
If it in fact IS up there with global warming, then it IS something to be concerned with!
#9
RE: Deer Feeding / Chronic Wasting
ORIGINAL: zrexpilot
Oh no! watch out the sky is falling, no wait killer bees are on their way, no wait mad cow is here, no wait the bird flu will get you, no wait its the flesh eating disease, no wait........
Oh no! watch out the sky is falling, no wait killer bees are on their way, no wait mad cow is here, no wait the bird flu will get you, no wait its the flesh eating disease, no wait........
#10
RE: Deer Feeding / Chronic Wasting
Don't get me wrong. If a state allows feeding of any kind that is because of a biologists decision and knowing its effects on the deer and I support those regulations. Abide by regulations and all is well. WCL