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Great story congrats

Congrats

Good luck

Yep that’s exactly what I have been seeing too. Actually read that if a cow is early in its pregnancy and gets the virus the calf can be born a life time carrier of ehd. There might be a very small portion of the midge larva that are born with it as well but there hasn’t been significant data to...

I haven’t found them yet but I don’t think a single one of these bucks is left alive in noble. Just going to be a deer watching season for me

He’s not technically wrong but that’s not what you want to hear from the officials that are “managing” the herd

Is anyone still finding fresh dead deer where it hit early this year?

We had zach haas from ehd defense on our place last week. He showed us a lot. The water areas we were worried about are not the problem. It’s the little areas. Ruts in roads, outflows from ponds, etc. He also commented on putting up bat boxes and barn swallow boxes. We are going to add a few...

Found 17 today. About half and half does and bucks. Most look like they died in the last couple days. Smelled a good number more driving around the neighborhood

4 bucks found today. Here we go again.

If I remember right from what I have read, 20% of deer can or will survive the illness. The mothers can pass along some level of immunity to their fawns the next spring. But it only lasts one year. Also if a different variant of ehd hits, the immunity may not help.

That was the sign last year when it started hitting. I started getting a ton of buzzards on camera

Well think it’s starting to kick at our place in noble. Neighbor sent this pic. It’s under the bridge heading into my place

Got my first out of velvet last night

Yeah we got crushed last year, starting around Labor Day, on our farms in noble last year. Neighbors are starting to text me that they are finding them now. Heading down next week. Also afraid of what I will find. Cameras are pretty much dead, no activity at all.