Oct 12, 2024 · Live in a CWD free county within a hundred yards of a CWD county, hunt a hundred yards into the CWD county, and you can't bring your kill home without deboning. Yes, that's an extreme example but it illustrates the absurdity of the rule. I guess that it's helpful that CWD deer know not to wander into a CWD free county.

Aug 25, 2001 · I just received the CWD test data for the first half of 2024 for Texas. The breeder deer tested had a 0.81% apparent infection rate and the free-range deer 0.69%; hardly a rampantly occurring deer disease in anyone's objective book. CWD has been reported in Texas since 2012. Testing began in 2002, and since then 130 free range deer tested positive.

Jul 6, 2019 · For the record, none of the deer that are tested result in a "negative" determination, the results are either "positive" or "not detected". A deer can be infected with early stages of CWD and test "not detected", whereas had the deer lived another 6 months to a year, would have likely tested "positive".

Dec 16, 2024 · Although, there is absolutely nothing that anyone can do about CWD in the long run. Soon, it will be in every state regardless of how many rules and regulations are put into place. I think the Wildlife Agencies hurt deer more by all the deer shootoffs they do than CWD.

Jan 23, 2000 · The first CWD positive deer was found near Cottage Grove, about 8 miles south of the KY/TN border, in 2019. The CWD positive deer found in Henry Co. this week was about 17 miles from the KY/TN state line, quite a distance from the first.

Dec 29, 2021 · This disease didn't just fall from the sky and infected our deer, it's been here for years. We have been eating it unknowingly. There's no right or wrong on what you do with the deer meat, only a personal preference. I will say this, I'm not aware of anyone getting sick from eating deer meat infected from a CWD deer from here to the Rockies.

Oct 14, 2024 · Deer farms transfer live deer across multiple states and group deer close together which is a big nono. The prions also stay in the soil long after any deer farm is depopulated. Not to mention, deer farms are entirely unethical. Wild deer should be wild not caged in fences. Deer farms are not the only transfer of CWD but they certainly don't help.

Mar 16, 2023 · Considering 1) the high saline environment of a salt lick actually strengthens the CWD causing prion, 2) salt licks do little to nothing for deer, 3) deer remember the salt licks their mother showed them, and will travel back to those same licks in summer no matter how far they've dispersed from them (meaning deer from a very wide area will use a salt lick) I would not and do not recommend ...

Jan 3, 2011 · TWRA Harvest Report for the private land antlerless hunt dates last season (JAN 8-12) shows 1485 female, 86 antlerless male, and 74 antlered male were taken. This includes CWD counties which were open for antlered and antlerless deer; it appears that the bulk of male deer were taken in these counties.

Oct 12, 2024 · The G96S allele did not, however, provide complete resistance, as a CWD-positive G96S/G96S deer was identified. The G96S allele was also linked to slower progression of the disease in CWD-positive deer based on the deposition of PrPCWD in the obex region of the medulla oblongata.