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Dean Parisian

Dean Parisian

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From Dr. Deer. Dr. James Kroll of Texas.

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. Let's put all this into perspective. In the first half of 2024, for every 10,000 free range deer, that's about 70 deer. Thats only testing positive for CWD prions, not yet mortality. There are 54,000+ auto collisions annually in Texas, with high probability of at least one deer death per accident! The annual deer harvest in Texas in 2023-24 was 757,047! There are probably 6 million deer in Texas, and growing at an alarming rate, which negates concern for CWD decimating the herd after 12 years of known CWD occurrence!
 
CWD is density and proximity specific. You can make the numbers say what you want. Figures lie and liars figure. In areas like Fayette County, TN, CWD has taken hold and caused population declines. First gradually, then all at once.

Texas may escape this decline for years and decades, but may succumb eventually. I am hopeful for a solution, but I think the deer are gonna have to overcome this on their own.
 
fairchaser said:
CWD is density and proximity specific. You can make the numbers say what you want. Figures lie and liars figure. In areas like Fayette County, TN, CWD has taken hold and caused population declines. First gradually, then all at once.

Texas may escape this decline for years and decades, but may succumb eventually. I am hopeful for a solution, but I think the deer are gonna have to overcome this on their own.
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Agreed. And state deer agencies should make smart and mindful common sense tweeks to regulations to approach it- no baiting, no minerals (possibly) , possibly increased doe harvests in some areas and proper disposal protocols for deer remains.


Not follow twras killem all with a hp rifle for 5 month approach.
 
Deer have survived cwd for millennia…….we just know have named it and have to ability to detect it…..imagine id we never named or recognized covid 19- would we ever known the difference ?
 
The TWRA backed off most of its changes it made due to CWD

They do let hunters still get extra buck tags and require them to be tested

Hunters don't have to kill the deer population down
 
redblood said:
Deer have survived cwd for millennia…….we just know have named it and have to ability to detect it…..imagine id we never named or recognized covid 19- would we ever known the difference ?
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Where do get that deer have survived it for millennia? Doesn't the evidence point to CWD showing up in penned deer exposed to other livestock in the 2nd have of the last century.....and that it first jumped from sheep to deer about 60 years ago...spreading from enclosure to enclosure as captive deer were bought and sold, before jumping the fence to the wild?
 
ttf909 said:
There's not a better authority on anything deer than J.k . Period.
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I'm not trying to be argumentative or rude, but he is bought and paid for, and has been for years. His research is based upon captive herds and he has made wide ranging applications of his research in his articles to free range herds. It will always support the caged, high fence deer farm community. If I recall correctly, @BSK or @Ski covered this a while back in a little more detail. I don't want to besmirch the guy, but he is not as much of an authority as he or others claim that he is
 

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