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tikkashooter

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Thank the good Lord for the rain we have had this past couple of weeks. However, have any of you with this heat and drought seen an increase in EHD on your properties? Haven't heard anything about it since the last outbreak 5 years ago. Just wondering what you have/have not observed.
 
horn master said:
probably have an outbreak in the next year or two due to the emunity loss. Seems like deer offspring loose about 20% emunity loss a year.
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I believe you need to look at this from a much higher perspective. Individual deer, or offspring, don't lose immunity, they either have it or they don't. Instead of looking at individual animals we need to look at the entire population. Every year there are more and more animals that are born into the population that do not have immunity. It is that percentage that grows every year instead of individual animals that lose immunity. When and EHD outbreak eventually occurs, the immune animals survive while the non-immune animals die off. This leaves a higher percentage of immune animals in the population and the cycle begins once again.
 
BAMA BOW MERKER said:
Found a dead doe, but it was about 80 yds from a road. So not sure of the cause.
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High probability this one was the victim of being hit by a car.

Most EHD dead deer will be found near water, although finding them near water doesn't mean EHD killed them. A traumatized or deer sick from something else will often go to water as well. Even a deer hit by a car may seek water in response to blood loss, and later be found in a pond.
 

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