Apple Creek Whitetails forced to euthanize 7 Flees Does

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Mike Kerry,


Your post from 9:04am yesterday sounds good but it would mean starting with a new team, inexperienced, unproven and no track record, but I do like the concept. If we're going to start with an unproved team, we might consider ACA. While they have not yet improved the industry, I think they may in a year or two if they continue to press forward. 




I believe after further review that Scott's idea would be better.  Its a fact that many think NADEFA screwed this all up to begin with and its a fact that many think some involved in the ACA have an agenda of sorts so it would be hard to get any farmer to have FULL 100% trust in either or parts of either of these groups.


 Sad but true!    With Scott's idea if one or a few covered the cost to come up with this test and then set the price for this test then maybe we could keep the price reasonable so we all could afford it and then the states or whomever could not rake us over the coals and set a price so high that it would choke more farmers out of the business!  Thoughts?

With an approved live test, there would be no need for the current CWD program or Standards.  A complete new Program and Standards would be necessary for WHAT STEPS are required IF you find a positive.  As the Program stands today, industrys' producers are only making themselves vulnerable to a 5 year quarantine for their animals and land without compensation.  

Rhonda Brakke897351389638285



With an approved live test, there would be no need for the current CWD program or Standards.  A complete new Program and Standards would be necessary for WHAT STEPS are required IF you find a positive.  As the Program stands today, industrys' producers are only making themselves vulnerable to a 5 year quarantine for their animals and land without compensation.  




I think the programs should be thrown out and left to the states but even then the state can still shut you down 5 years.  I think with a live test and a positive is found most people would just put it down one way or the other. Like Scott did. Break the chain right there at your farm!

We have to very thankful the Flees herd was a closed herd.  If they had also been purchasing animals from others, then all of the herds they purchased from would have been caught up in the trace outs also, because at this point there is no way to determine where the disease came from....and those herds would have no way to test out because it is impossible to kill your whole herd unlike the herds that have purchased a few animals from the Flees'....at least they can opt to kill the individual animals if they need to get off of quarantine.  The industry got off as well as can be expected this time, but the next time might not be so good because there are very few "closed" herds out there....and there will be a next time especially with states like Missouri and Pennsylvania being forced to test 100% in their hunting ranches.  Look at Wisconsin and Iowa as an example of 100% testing at the hunting ranches....it got the Flees' and the Brakke's a positive CWD....when you keep looking for that needle in the haystack you will find that needle eventually.  That is the only place Wisconsin has been able to find CWD in the last 7 years is in the hunting ranches.


 


All the testing that has been done in the wild and in our pens has shown that the older mature bucks are more likely to contract CWD....could it be that the head trauma from all the fighting they do has something to do with the disease????