Deer Farmer

Bell

http://www.greatfallstribune.com/sto...osis/79199086/

Arrowed1

That is a pretty good analogy of where we are today , where we have been and where we are headed. Impressed that it came out of Arizona , not really known for cervid farming.

HAB Whitetails

Good article, but I think they should of noted that done of the Iowa herd were all healthy when they where depopulated

Four Seasons Whitetails

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Good article, but I think they should of noted that done of the Iowa herd were all healthy when they where depopulated




What they should have noted was that they were not all brain and node tested. They came up with 80% with only one test used when in fact it was more like 20% of the herd infected. The original writer was of course on the state side so they used the 80% numbers to make the....Sky is falling..theory on that family farm and herd.

G O Whitetails

I was at that depopulation and helped Dr. Haley collect samples along with Todd Landt and Chuck Hutchinson.


About 25% of the animals were lymph positive and obex negative. * Of all the animals we killed, only maybe a half a dozen we called on the skinny side or thin, which is not abnormal in any herd. *There were NO sick or falling over animals, like many of the pictures show of CWD.*


I thought this was an excellent article, one of a few that was not slanted against deer farmers by an outdoor writer that has a biased against farmers.