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SUDAN grass thoughts

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Deer dynasty

Joined Feb 2015
2 Posts | 0+
Los Angeles ca
HI everyone - first post...  love the forum.  I've owned a deer ranch for a few years now in Southeast Louisiana.  Don't have that many deer (20).  lost over half of our fawns to EHD last yr.   i was wondering if anyone else has tried planting Sudan grass to help with EHD...  it makes sense...  ck this out:


 


https://www.facebook.com/DeerManCons...90499557662834


 


but then someone on another forum wrote (and this kind of makes sense if its true)


 


(51,51,51);verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', ;background-(197,187,170)Gnats are daytime, not nocturnal. I have read that gnats/midges are the vector for EHD, never read that mosquitoes are, not saying it can't happen.


(51,51,51);verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', ;background-(197,187,170)So if midges are daytime, Sudan gives off gases at night, just doesn't seem to jive to me.

(51,51,51);verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', ;background-(197,187,170)If the deer are eating Sudan, then maybe the prussic acid might come into play?

(51,51,51);verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', ;background-(197,187,170)Definitely warrants further intensive studies.


 


what do you all think?  anything else other than a misting systems that you feel works for gnats?  praying they come up with a bullet proof vaccine this yr...  


 


thx!


Scott
 
some deer will go right under... Some need incentive.  I've got bottle feeds that never hesitated to walk under the first time they approached it.   Best bet is to hang up high so they can go under without being touched and move it down over time
 
Gnats may be daytime but midge flies are nocturnal and that's what carries the ehd virus not gnats we start fogging right before dark and also have the permethrin drips in some of our pens just don't use cotton rope it draws the chemical out to fast
 
Has anyone explored with planting things (food, grass, bushes) that they feel reduced the EHD deaths in the past? the deer either laying in it or eating it seems to be working for some people to prevent EHD...    I've heard that sudan grass works.  I've heard that lab lab sorghum works...  what do you guys think?  
 
Mint (Menth spp.).....Marigold (Tegetes spp.)........Lemongrass ( Cymbopogon citratus ) this is some if the things we use.