Cwd ????
08-29-2015, 02:20 PM
#21
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: On an Island in Paradise
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I'll chime in from Vermont. Our state has banned the canned hunting operations, don't allow importation of live deer and elk from other areas, limit killed game from known cwd states and provinces to be meat and no bone other than a rack with cleaned scull cap, eliminated urine based scents and no longer allows deer feeding or baiting. They did all this to reduce the chance of CWD showing up in our state. Once it shows up it will bankrupt our F&W Dept with the extra expense associated with testing and monitoring for years. In addition a majority of our sportsmen embraced this action by our wildlife biologists.
08-29-2015, 03:46 PM
#22
Spike
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Park Falls Wis USA
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I here what your saying gjersy but how do you explain the mule deer in New Mexico that tested positive in the wild with no deer farming operation anywhere remotely close. My point is cwd showed up when they started testing for it. It was here all along. Those numbers came right from the DNR,s study legis.wisconsin.gov/lab/reports/06-13full.pdf titled an evaluation Chronic Wasting Disease, breaks down total cost of what they paid out.
08-30-2015, 04:44 AM
#25
Spike
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Park Falls Wis USA
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Ok ban all the deer farms ,do you think cwd will magically disappear off the face of the earth? I believe your current hunting situation is driven by the dnr,s desire to get rid of baiting in the state. If they had there way there would be no feeding of any kind period.
08-30-2015, 05:37 AM
#26
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2010
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From what i read on the subject, the money payed to these deer farms for compensation comes from federal tax dollars, the US Dept of Ag. The deer farm near Portage WI that had an extremely high % of CWD was actually bought by the state of Wisconsin in the aftermath! One thing we've learned from deer farms, is that where there is an un-naturally high concentration of deer, too many times there is CWD. I don't blame the DNR for banning baiting in my area, i blame the negligent deer farmer thats located in Eau Claire county 100%. The answer to this issue of spreading CWD is to ban deer farms, in my opinion it should've been done long ago.
Some interesting discussion in this thread.
I personally don't care for the genetic freak type deer farming but I don't hate the idea of farming deer all together.
08-30-2015, 07:21 AM
#27
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: WI
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I wish Wisconsin did have more regulations. Rick Vojtik the deer farm's owner said he never had a deer test positive for CWD before the 7 year old doe did. He did admit he imports deer from other areas including other states, importing deer has lead to spreading CWD. At this deer farm he had 167 deer on 12 acres, Anytime you have that high of a concentration of deer it can't be healthy. And when you have a deer farm with CWD and fences that get knocked down it's not a good combination.
08-30-2015, 07:41 AM
#28
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2015
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Deer population densities are a factor in most, if not all Deer disease.
It seems to stay in the soil for a long time, kind of reminds me of Anthrax, which can lay dormant in the soil a very long time.
In the places where it is endemic, some/most of the surviving Deer likely have some sort of genetic protection. Transporting the disease to places where the Deer don't have this genetic protection is dumb.
Just a random thought that popped into my head, is I wonder if it can't be carried by truck bumpers and trains? They say it is almost impossible to disinfect an enclosure that has been infected. Limiting transport of Deer from infected areas is kind of a no brainer.
I read the protocols for disinfecting for BSE, I know they are similar but not the same. But if they are much the same, this is a really hardy disease and difficult to kill dead dead dead, 900 F for four hours kills it.
08-30-2015, 07:55 AM
#29
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2010
Posts: 3,359
One of the bigger problems I've gleaned form reading some, is they just don't know exactly what they are dealing with. The normal progression of the disease is often long term, so the testing to determine simple cause and effect takes a long time. They can speed up the infection process, but studying the natural process can take generations.
Deer population densities are a factor in most, if not all Deer disease.
It seems to stay in the soil for a long time, kind of reminds me of Anthrax, which can lay dormant in the soil a very long time.
In the places where it is endemic, some/most of the surviving Deer likely have some sort of genetic protection. Transporting the disease to places where the Deer don't have this genetic protection is dumb.
Just a random thought that popped into my head, is I wonder if it can't be carried by truck bumpers and trains? They say it is almost impossible to disinfect an enclosure that has been infected. Limiting transport of Deer from infected areas is kind of a no brainer.
I read the protocols for disinfecting for BSE, I know they are similar but not the same. But if they are much the same, this is a really hardy disease and difficult to kill dead dead dead, 900 F for four hours kills it.
Deer population densities are a factor in most, if not all Deer disease.
It seems to stay in the soil for a long time, kind of reminds me of Anthrax, which can lay dormant in the soil a very long time.
In the places where it is endemic, some/most of the surviving Deer likely have some sort of genetic protection. Transporting the disease to places where the Deer don't have this genetic protection is dumb.
Just a random thought that popped into my head, is I wonder if it can't be carried by truck bumpers and trains? They say it is almost impossible to disinfect an enclosure that has been infected. Limiting transport of Deer from infected areas is kind of a no brainer.
I read the protocols for disinfecting for BSE, I know they are similar but not the same. But if they are much the same, this is a really hardy disease and difficult to kill dead dead dead, 900 F for four hours kills it.
just a thought....I'm no expert. It just seems like man thinning the herd is not selective of deer that have the genetic protection and mother nature is.
Based on that information it seems its a slow acting disease that mother nature already has her own cure for.
08-30-2015, 07:56 AM
#30
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2010
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I wish Wisconsin did have more regulations. Rick Vojtik the deer farm's owner said he never had a deer test positive for CWD before the 7 year old doe did. He did admit he imports deer from other areas including other states, importing deer has lead to spreading CWD. At this deer farm he had 167 deer on 12 acres, Anytime you have that high of a concentration of deer it can't be healthy. And when you have a deer farm with CWD and fences that get knocked down it's not a good combination.
That should be common sense. CWD or not that is just asking for trouble.