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01-03-2017, 11:57 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2008
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Tick's or sickness?
image.jpgI was out managing my doe heard this morning. Was about 20 in all at the baiting station. This one was alone laying in the hay. After wathcing them move back in the woods. 2 fawns stayed to eat. Then the bigger one went ot this laying one and started to hit it with its front paws. The second one came and did the same. After a few strikes from second deer, it finally got up and had a hard time to walk. I walked up in the field and the 2 good ones left when i got about 75 yards. The one that was laying didint leave. Just looked at me approaching it. I shot it and went down about 15 yards.
When i got to it it didint look that great. Now i wonder if it was sick or maybe it has ticks?? What do you think?
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01-03-2017, 12:28 PM
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01-03-2017, 01:28 PM
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Thick r easy to see, did u look at the animal?
What did u see?
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01-03-2017, 04:17 PM
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Didint see nothing.
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01-03-2017, 04:23 PM
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mange???
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01-03-2017, 05:41 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2008
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Thats what my kid says 2.
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01-03-2017, 05:42 PM
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Now the question is?
Can i eat it?
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01-03-2017, 05:48 PM
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Call F&W if you are concerned. Ask if you can have it checked for CWD.
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01-03-2017, 06:21 PM
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I would say sickness
I would say sick. I can not guess at cause. What species? I can not tell from pic. I would not eat anything that was on its way to death before I killed it.
Let us know what you find.
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01-03-2017, 06:37 PM
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I don't think most of us are qualified to comment on what disease your Quebec deer may have. There are diseases that your deer may have, that ours do not. Contact a local biologist.
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01-03-2017, 07:37 PM
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I think...
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Originally Posted by abenaki-warrior
What do you think?
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It'll make good coyote/wolf bait... There's 20 more where that came from !
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01-04-2017, 06:12 AM
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Just spoke with f-w. The officer said that he would contact a biologist with the pics i sent them. What he thinks, its a probable cause of ticks as the deer lost alot of fur.
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01-04-2017, 01:19 PM
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The verdict is:
The wildlife biologist said that the meat should be ok, probably a bad case of ticks or parasite. Fur didint have time to regenerate fast enough for winter. Sent the carcas to the butcher. He didint seem to worried about it
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01-04-2017, 01:39 PM
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I'd be very leery of eating it, WITHOUT having a Biologist actually take samples from the animal to determine what was making it "sick"...
YMMV - good luck
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01-04-2017, 04:08 PM
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Next ones to come out of the heard will be good and healthy.
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01-04-2017, 04:10 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by abenaki-warrior
The wildlife biologist said that the meat should be ok, probably a bad case of ticks or parasite. Fur didint have time to regenerate fast enough for winter. Sent the carcas to the butcher. He didint seem to worried about it
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OK I thought you shot that one just to euthanize it? Tick only cause hair not to regenerate I thought you said that this one did not want to get up and when it did it could hardly walk? Tick or parasite or whatever, this animal was not well. I would be worried about a butcher that would not be worried. You are a braver man than I am.
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01-04-2017, 05:43 PM
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So you can just take a deer from " your " herd any time you want without a season. Do you own them and have them penned or just baiting wild deer ??? Seems a bit strange you would walk out one day and on the spot diagnose the deer as terminal and then eat it. And by the way-- deer have HOOVES and not PAWS !!!
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01-04-2017, 06:22 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mhunter51
So you can just take a deer from " your " herd any time you want without a season. Do you own them and have them penned or just baiting wild deer ??? Seems a bit strange you would walk out one day and on the spot diagnose the deer as terminal and then eat it. And by the way-- deer have HOOVES and not PAWS !!!
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and I always thought deer hair was called hair and not fur.
I would also be concerned that if there was a disease within the herd a bait station would be a way to increase the transmission of the disease.
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01-04-2017, 07:04 PM
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My hunting season will end on jan 31st at the last minute of legal hunting time.
This way year after year since 1997-98.
And yes my mistake on the paws. Sorry!!
If you need more info on my hunting season and quotas, pm me.
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01-04-2017, 08:09 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by abenaki-warrior
My hunting season will end on jan 31st at the last minute of legal hunting time.
This way year after year since 1997-98.
And yes my mistake on the paws. Sorry!!
If you need more info on my hunting season and quotas, pm me.
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Good luck for the rest of your hunting season and I do hope that your herd is not infected
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01-05-2017, 06:39 PM
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If the deer is sick the internal organs might reveal the sickness. I always check that the liver, lungs, spleen and such look healthy. A sick animal may have a foul or tainted smell too.
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01-06-2017, 11:20 AM
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No way in heck would I eat a fork full of that. Not a chance.
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01-10-2017, 03:56 PM
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deer hair
That's the shaggiest long haired deer I have ever seen a photo of.
kidd
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