Southern Indiana EHD outbreak September 2014

Bell, If you have a ULV fogger, go to the water sources in your area and fog the crap out of em during the early and late morning before the temp rises and the fog all goes up instead of drifting out, you can stop EHD. I lost deer a couple years ago at a rate of 5 a day. The day I fogged the stock pond next to my pens it stopped completely and instantly. You have to use the right combination of pesticides to be effective. Don't just fog in the pens, go after em where they live! PM me with your number or I can send you mine and I'll let you know what I've learned from experience with EHD.


Cody

Jonathans video

Oh man Jonathan, I am so sorry to hear this. I will be praying it stops.

I tried praying a couple years ago, didn't work out so good for the 55 deer that died. The midges 7 day cycle doesn't hold true it you have new midges hatching, the wild deer all the way around me died from mid august until the last week in October, new midges keep hatching as long as the weather permits. If you've ever had EHD before, the virus has never left and won't until you break the midges life cycle. Midges don't travel far from the mud that they are hatched on. It might only be 5 midges out of a 1,000 midges that are carrying the virus, if you fogged around your pens in the evening, you have a dam good chance of hitting those 5 midges that are infecting your deer. don't worry about the midges 2 miles away, concentrate on the ones within a few hundred yards of your pens. If its a river big enough to float a boat on, I'd throw the fogger in the boat and you could fog 2 miles of frontage in a matter of minutes or if you can get anywhere close with an atv, the fog will drift for several hundred yards in the cool evening air and kill every one of them. EHD is around us every year, it's usually worse on dry years because a lot of deer are watering at the same stagnant water sources and the infected EHD midges are swarming around it waiting for a meal to come in and get a drink. I fogged all my stock dams a couple times a week and have completely stopped it on my wild deer. I used to loose hundreds some years. I know it's not just because of the year because others find dead ones all around me every year. Good luck and get lotsa Dex and Draxxin, that will save some of the ones who get it. 

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I have creeks and a river running all over our farm for miles. Little Flat Rock river basically makes a horseshoe around our farm and Hurricane Creek runs right down the center. There are miles of creek bank. My neighbor about 2 miles west is a big grain farmer. He also brokers a lot of cattle. He has a couple livestock semis. He constantly has a different bunch of cattle in his pasture. I am certain he has brought in a reservoir host carrying the virus and introduced it to our resident midges. It will stop on its own in about seven more days because of the natural life cycle of the midge and the natural course of the virus. The deer that are dying now were bitten days ago.




 


 Your right!! cattle seem to be the vector for the disease, I have a friend in florida that had neighboring farms bring in texas cattle because of there bad drought, thats when ehd  starts , big sids is right fogging seems to be there best control, sorry i hate to here about this disease, been very lucky here in northeast Pa so far, early frost would be nice.


 


 


Scott Neeb


www.chanllowfarms.com

Glad to hear it is looking better. Sorry for your losses, it is one of the worst parts of raising deer.

Hey Jonathan, I sent you a pm. 

Sorry to here about your loses , hopefully they are done with you and your farm

Jonathon lost five more yesterday, a couple of dang good does besides the good ones he already lost :angry: :angry: :angry:


I'm afraid with it heating up this weekend is not good for EHD


I'm holding my breath from feeding to feeding


 


As Wayne says it has a list and the good ones are always at the top.

Jonathan, In my pens, I have tall grass. Maybe waist high... I use a hand held sprayer and saturate the grass on a trail that the deer use, maybe 3 feet on each side of the trail,and maybe 30' long I mean I really saturate it good. Diesel fuel and pem. Mixed heavy. As soon as I spray. My self,daughter and wife, corral the deer to make them go through this area that I sprayed. They usually pass through and get a good soaking! I have a small herd and pens aren't huge so it's kinda easy for me to do it the way I do. Just a thought. Good luck

I'm in eastern kansas and I'm about to lose my yearling buck I bought to cover with. I don't know how a guy can deal with this every year. I only have ten adult deer and this will be my third death so far. He's eyes are very puffy, you can see the red under sides of the lids and he is letting the house flies land on the eye. I gave 2.5 draxxin and .5 compound dex. i hope it works.

I am not a vet, Nor will I try to tell you what to do but when I was fighting it last year I gave my deer 2 cc of compounded dex and it did not work very well. When I got pissed off I started hitting them with 3 cc of compounded dex and they turned around in hours. And if that doesnt help I would not be afraid to try 4 or 5 cc They will die anyway.

Jason, Keep hitting him with the Dex once daily for 2-5 days, usually if you can catch it just as they start looking a little bit off, you can turn them around a they will survive. Catching it early  is the most important. This means walking the pens every few hours if its at all possible. GET A ULV FOGGER AND YOU CAN BREAK THE CYCLE OF THE MIDGE IN YOUR AREA AND WON'T HAVE TO PUT YOURSELF THRU THIS STRESS!!. A single deer is worth what the cost of a fogger is and will protect your deer every year for a decade. NO I DONT SELL THEM OR AM TRYING TO FOR SOMEONE ELSE, IVE JUST HAD MY DEER DIE BY THE PICK UP TRUCK FULLS AND THIS IS WHAT STOPPED IT DEAD IN ITS TRACKS AND HAS KEPT IT STOPPED. 

Cassie is right, whatever the Dex does, it usually works, and sometimes they will straighten out in a couple hours. I also hit them with Draxxin for any secondary infections caused by the EHD. If you can get them thru the first couple days they will usually make it, they might look rough for awhile but eventually be back to normal. I have had EHD and last year I was out of town for 3 days during the hottest weekend of the year and also the one when the midges must have hatched, anyhow I didn't fog during that time and that following Monday I had 3 does get sick, one died and ended up testing negative for EHD and positive for Blue Tongue virus. I started fogging again and that was the end of it for the year, no more sick ones.