CWD Discovered in Alabama

Ski said:
Prions survive in the environment for at least 2yrs. Killing the herd off in infected areas serves zero purpose at stopping the spread. It would take no time for deer in surrounding areas to migrate into the freshly cleansed area, thereby making the effort an enormously futile waste.

Call me stupid but exterminating an entire herd to save it from extinction seems ironically counter productive. The old phrase, "cut off your nose to spite your face", rings true here.
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Agree, all you have to do is look at how Wisconsin handled & see how that turned out
 
Wisconsin deer… from last Fall..

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BDS05 said:
I'm sorry you came to that conclusion. That wasn't my intention. I'm certainly very poorly educated.
I'm not sure which line you read between, but that's not what I meant.

You still haven't answered my original question.
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I'll answer your question with my opinion. I don't know exactly what to do, but I sure think I know what NOT to do.

Hunt normally and leave the deer alone otherwise. Killing every deer possible has not worked in other States, and unless Tennessee is incredibly smarter and more gifted in foresight, my guess is that it won't work here either. What the shooting will do, again IMO, is kill the will to hunt for a whole lot of Tennesseans.

This disease has not killed every deer in other States, and I don't think that it will here either. There's a chance that deer will develop an immunity to it eventually, though probably not in our lifetimes.

If it's true that the prions live for years in the ground, the disease will only present again when and if new animals occupy it. Surely to God the powers that be can understand that. It's gonna spread regardless. It won't be stopped.

I'm much more afraid of the attempted "cure" than I am the disease. And yes, even though I live in Middle Tennessee, our farm is in Henry county, so I more than understand how it is to be affected by it.

To loosely quote another member here, " The cure might be worse than the problem". Sometimes doing nothing is a helluva lot better than knee jerk reactions to the panic with, " Well, we have to do SOMETHING!"
 
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BDS05 said:
Let's just assume Covid isn't a conspiracy theory for a minute…

Do you have higher odds getting effected in room A) of 85/100 effected or room B) 10/100 effected.

Will Covid spread more so throughout the population from room A or room B?
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Who cares? I'm sick of hearing about covid!
 
Ski said:
Perhaps a novel idea, but maybe redirect the eradication funding toward lab research in finding an effective remedy. Seems to be a lot of money focused on brainstorming ridiculous ideas to kill off an already dying herd. Seems those resources could be better utilized. I'd be willing to bet the research labs would love to have access to those dollars.

And so what if a remedy isn't found? At least we'd know we gave it a God's honest effort to save them. Again, I fail to see how killing them off en masse saves them from dying. I vote cure them, not kill them.
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There's no cure for TSEs in livestock or humans. Cure sounds great and all but it doesn't seem to be realistic
 
PRB said:
or been sick ?
Ive been wondering the same but havent really kept up with this.
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Thank the good Lord no one has gotten sick or died as the result of consuming an infected deer. Can you imagine the panic that would ensue. It's not just the deer but it's in the ground too. There's very little chance of a vaccine for a prion disease so we would have to abandon the areas where infected deer exist which is pretty much everywhere.
 
MickThompson said:
There's no cure for TSEs in livestock or humans. Cure sounds great and all but it doesn't seem to be realistic
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I understand that. My point was that mass, indiscriminate elimination of the deer herd isn't realistic. If I had to choose one or the other to support, I lean toward searching for a remedy, be that a cure or preventive measure that doesn't include mass kill off. I went on to say I'd prefer allowing nature do its thing, as certain animals appear to have immunity. Their offspring will survive to propagate the species, but not if they're all killed off by humans first. In the meantime we can still search for alternatives.
 
fairchaser said:
Alabama already has a buck and doe a day limit. Or it used to anyway. So, I don't see much changing on the harvest front. I know state agencies are trying to slow it down, but like Covid, it's gonna go where it wants to go.
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Until February 10, in 2 counties in Alabama, what I saw is no limit, gun or bow, no antler restrictions. Kill all the deer that can be killed.

Not only ignorant, but completely stupid. The "kill all the deer" has already been tried several times. It did not affect cwd one bit and all that was accomplished was a bunch of dead deer.
 
BDS05 said:
I agree it may be more widespread though I know of several tests from Hickman and Wilson. I understand those numbers are very limited compared to the tested numbers in the effected areas.
It isn't the boogie man, you're correct. It is however a disease that kills deer. It is a disease that will spread more rapidly in areas with higher densities… It is a disease the whole state doesn't want and I'd guess other states don't want….
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Doesn't matter if they want it. It's coming. Or already there.
 

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