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    brock ratcliff replied to the thread 2025 EHD?.
    They often lose the tail nail completely. My former deer farmer buddy said they walk around essentially on raw meat. Those hooves...
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    brock ratcliff replied to the thread 2025 EHD?.
    I have watched this fella most of the summer with the drone. At least once a week. I haven’t checked on him for a week or so. He too...
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    brock ratcliff reacted to Creamer's post in the thread 2025 EHD? with Like Like.
    So this was her on Aug 22, based off the image details from when she and her fawn were in our front yard. And this is her this...
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    brock ratcliff reacted to Outdoorsfellar's post in the thread The Chronicles of Kev with Like Like.
    This season & hopefully beyond, I'll be posting pics & videos for the fun of it & of intetest under this threads title. I have...
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    brock ratcliff replied to the thread 2025 EHD?.
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    brock ratcliff replied to the thread 2025 EHD?.
    Sighting Mrex again; he told me a few are surviving. And those that do all have the patchy coat you described. It makes it appear...
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    brock ratcliff reacted to bigten05's post in the thread Joshs 2025 journal with Like Like.
    Got some good ones still showing up and a few in ky also we will be headed back down next weekend to see if we can put some velvet down...
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    We ended up going to the state shoot today It is a nice course and the weather was great
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    brock ratcliff replied to the thread 2025 EHD?.
    It is. Mrex is not a biologist. He was not speaking on behalf of anyone at the DoW, just a guy that based the numbers from previous...
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    brock ratcliff replied to the thread 2025 EHD?.
    Mrex asked me to pass along the deer found July 4th were actually tested and confirmed.
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    brock ratcliff reacted to Wiley E Coyote's post in the thread 2025 EHD? with Like Like.
    That's how the herd grew so fast in the 80s. The Western side of Ohio had no deer in the early 70s. I grew up in Greene county and our...
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    brock ratcliff replied to the thread 2025 EHD?.
    And yes, Nimrod means hunter. Wtf?
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    brock ratcliff replied to the thread 2025 EHD?.
    I thought I clarified that; it is not my intention to KILL deer, it is my intention to have hunted deer in all 88 counties. And I am...
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    If anyone has an established clover plot, now would be a great time to mow it one last time before the bow opener. Moisture and cool...
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    brock ratcliff replied to the thread 2025 EHD?.
    We also had an outbreak in 22, but our deer did not start dying until the first of September. Athens county had a full month and a...