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Has the incubation time been determined, that is the time from when the animal has been biten by an infectious midge, to the time that visible symptems appear? Is there any cross immunity between the different strains after an animal has recovered from one of the forms of EHD or Bluetongue...

Just curious how everyone else does it. Do you Lap AI or do you do ******l AI? Do you split straws? How many hours do you breed at? Do you do your own AI or have someone else do it? Do you AI Yearling does? Traditionally what are your results? I will start out. We do ******l AI. We...

Can anybody tell me there experiences with Bio-Mycin pros and cons. My boss has a few bottles that are still good and I would like to know more about them for possible use before they expire.

I am thinking about using Antler Max. I used it about 8 years ago and worked well. I started buying a pelleted feed from MFA about 8 years ago because it was like 4 dollars a bag cheaper and the deer looked just as good on it as they did antler max except for they did lose a little weight during...

Hello all. Might I start off by saying how wonderful the people are on this forum! My husband and I are new to deer farming and without this forum and the helpful people on here we would be seriously stressed. Our first fawn ever is currently 7 days old, 9.5lbs drinking 5.5 oz 4 times a day...

I am new to this business so i have lots of questions. One is why is so much semen being sold cheap? It bothers me to see so much semen being sold cheap and lots of straws out of the same buck!!! Dosnt this hurt the value of offspring? For myself i want to use bucks that their offspring are...

Anyone know of any sons out of AGN Bam Bam? I have a 2011 buck out of Bam Bam and a Maxbo Extreme doe, and I am just wanting to know how he is producing "IF" he is producing. Pics would be great! Thanks

Not sure if this is an "OK" topic since I am referring to wild deer, or if this is the proper place to post, but here goes anyway. Short background: I have several (5) does in various age classes that live on my property. Early in the season they all had fawns. With the drought we are...

I'm bottle feeding one fawn so far this year. I did four, two years ago, and used raw goats milk. This year I'm trying red cap. I just want some reassurance on working with this milk. I understand you let them drink all they want. Is this correct? My fawn is 5 days old today and she's drinking...

I'm a little new to bottle feeding. I have two questions that I keep getting different answers to. 1)How long (feedings or days) do you stimulate fawns? 2)First month fawn gets scours. Not sure what from. What/how do you treat them? I understand you need to know more info on the scours...

I have been using Xylazine (Rompun) for the past 5 years without any problems. I have this one buck that it doesn't work on. He gets drowsy but will never go down and quickly comes to life when I get in close to him. Doesn't matter how much I give him. I have tried this on three different...

I am currently taking a genetics class. I need to do a research paper on a topic of my choice. Seeing how I love deer so much, and there are lots of great people on this site, I found it quite easy to pick my topic. I need help from anyone who specifically breeds for white or pied deer. I am...

If you have a non accredited herd how man years do you have to test to become accredited and do you have to test every year? Is it possible to have an accredited herd and a non accredited herd...if so how far apart do the pens need to be?

We have a few fawns that start with a cough then start turning away feedings, some to the point of needing tube fed. These fawns typically would come running to the bottle and some now have to be caught and forced the bottle, syringed and some even tube fed. We had a couple rapidly go downhill...

1. How do you know if a fawn has bloat? 2. What causes bloat in a fawn? 3. How do you treat it? 4. Is there anyway of preventing it? Thanks for everyone's help in advance!!!

on monday 5/17 i gave my 2 does a 1 buck safeguard dewormer in the pellet form with fenbendazole in it to be safe with the pregenate does . the package says to give them 0.2lbs i used a postal scale and gave them each 6 onces the does are tame and eat them out of my hand . was this enough...

Hi everyone this is my first thread.... but i have been lookin in to the whitetail business for about 6 months now and i plan on starting one up bout middle of next year. i live in texas and plan on starting out with at least 6 acres and I had a few questions and wanted to see if yall could...

Hello all, Been on these forums for quite some time now looking around for answers to some of my bigger questions but I kept running in to someone saying one thing while someone else was say the opposite... I wont name any names but I just thought maybe I could create a post that could help...

Several days ago I had the neighbor's dog and then the neighbors chasing their dog raise hell with my buck pen. Had bucks crashing, going though, and over the fence. Several are now in wrong pens. A half dozen are limping. Three more lost antlers crashing the fence. I've gotten all loose animals...

I talk to many people in the industry. Being in the Whitetail Breeding and Auction business and many of my friends and customers are asking what is the formula for feeding RED CAP milk? I think it would be nice to make this as easy and simple as possible for anyone wanting to start using RED CAP...