Wasting Disease

TammyKelley · Oct 10, 2015

This is a wild deer in my in my subdivision and we have noticed she keeps getting skinny. She eats a lot everyday with the rest of the herd that visits our home. We have heard that wasting decease may possibly be in our area. Does anyone have any thoughts or suggestion? I am a licensed rehabber with Texas Parks and Wildlife and I have a message in to them as well. I am thinking she needs to be taken down and tested. I would hate for her to infect the other deer if it is contagious.

I posted a couple of photos of her.

Jack · Oct 10, 2015

Looks like a deer with two fawns taking her down because she has worms and poor food.

dtala · Oct 11, 2015

my first thought was weight loss from feeding fawns, but she looks a little worse than that.

Feed her some Safeguard wormer pellets, don't worry about feeding too much...and put some food out for her.

I'll bet it isn't CWD because CWD takes a while, like a couple of years, to incubate and then show symptoms. Ya'll have had suspected CWD only a short time in captive herds near there. Not enough time for it to be CWD.

Bell · Oct 11, 2015

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my first thought was weight loss from feeding fawns, but she looks a little worse than that.

Feed her some Safeguard wormer pellets, don't worry about feeding too much...and put some food out for her.

I'll bet it isn't CWD because CWD takes a while, like a couple of years, to incubate and then show symptoms. Ya'll have had suspected CWD only a short time in captive herds near there. Not enough time for it to be CWD. So the wild herd isn't the vector?

dtala · Oct 11, 2015

don't believe I named a vector????

Bell · Oct 11, 2015

I don't understand this part of your statement.

"Ya'll have had suspected CWD only a short time in captive herds near there. Not enough time for it to be CWD."

IndependenceRanch · Oct 11, 2015

Yes I read that and thought holy crap also. Poorly worded at best.

G O Whitetails · Oct 11, 2015

There are many things that can make a deer skinny. On the herds that were depopulated, the skinniest deer that we had thought would have had CWD came back negative. You can ask Curt Waldvogel that too, he said the same thing when he was at a depopulation of a herd out there. The wildlife agencies when using those same pictures of a CWD deer, have been doing a huge disservice.

dtala · Oct 11, 2015

sorry gentlemen, poorly worded.

there has not been enough time for the deer in question to be sick from CWD transmitted by the captive herd near him. Texas has just found CWD in , I think, four deer in a captive herd. TWPD dosen't know the source of the disease as of yet.

better???

dtala · Oct 11, 2015

and you know we skipped the obvious answer....that doe very welll could be an EHD survivor from this years round of EHD outbreaks. I have a doe on my property that looks just like that, got sick with EHD a month ago. I treated her with Draxxin and Dex, she survived but looks like hail.

G O Whitetails · Oct 11, 2015

I understand that the captive facility in Texas is in the middle of it's preserve. There is no contact in their breeding herd to the deer outside the fence. The facility is in effect double-fenced. Odds are they well never find the source. These agencies continue to ignore "all" the other possible vectors of how CWD enters our farms. Blaming our movement is an easy out for them. This fits their "agenda" better.

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