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bad season for the buckeye state?

A.GunA.Gun Member Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited September 2007 in Bow Hunting and Target Archery
I haven't done my homework or heard of it anywhere else, but I heard the other day that a disease is plagueing the deer here in ohio, spreads through a bug bite? I didn't believe it at first, but lately I see a dead deer everytime I'm on the highway, thats normal if its november.....not for september....kinda worried. Anyone know anything???[:(]
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    ladamsladams Member Posts: 604 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm in Ohio and I have not heard anything about it. I have been seeing about the same number of deer as usual, and have not noticed any that looked sickly. Maybe someone else here has some info that I don't know about.
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    bang250bang250 Member Posts: 8,021
    edited November -1
    EHD happens this time every year. nothing new. Worse during droughts.

    http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/Home/wild_resourcessubhomepage/dealing_with_wildlifeplaceholder/Diseases/EpizooticHemorrhagicDisease/tabid/15345/Default.aspx

    http://wdfw.wa.gov/factshts/ehd.htm

    http://www.michigan.gov/emergingdiseases/0,1607,7-186-26346-152891--,00.html

    http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070902/SPORTS09/709020579/1002/SPORTS

    http://outdoorlife.blogs.com/newshound/2007/08/ehd-in-your-are.html

    I posted all the links for several reasons, one many people for one reason or another are just now hearing about EHD, 2 the links show that it can happen anywhere in the US (from Wash. to Penn.) with the right conditions and has happened just about everywhere at one time. Here in Illinois we see it every year just some years are a little more harsh more than others. I've read the Tenn. is having the worst case in 10 yrs.
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    47studebaker47studebaker Member Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I heard that Green County in PA is having some problems with the dead deer, no official estimates but some are saying the herd is being decimated. Others are saying it's only happening in isolated spots and only several hundred deer.
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    A.GunA.Gun Member Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    looks like bang nailed it, thanks man
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    bang250bang250 Member Posts: 8,021
    edited November -1
    One of the ladies I work with raises deer and has lost 2 of her 11. Another farm south of here has lost 18 of his 20. Bad time of year for deer farms.
    Guess I'm glad I'm not set up for them this year.
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    DIRTYRATDIRTYRAT Member Posts: 2,167 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hmmmm....Wonder if they'll taste the same!?!
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    ladamsladams Member Posts: 604 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Read something about it in the paper today it apparently only in the southern counties of Ohio, and the bugs that carry the disease should die with the first freeze of the winter. It also said that the disease could in no way be transmitted to or affect humans.
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    LOKO383LOKO383 Member Posts: 7,503 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It has been diagnosed as EHD..and this is a drought yr here in southern ohio,I'm in Gallia co. and between three families nearby we have five ponds..two large ones, our nearest neighbor has found two does dead within 20yds of a pond on two different ocassions..confirmed EHD.by DNR WILDLIFE..,while we are soon hoping for a frost to get rid of the little gnats that spread it from stagnant water holes..we hope next yr returns to normal,ie rain and average rainfall,is way down here ponds here have lost up to 5ft of water from normal levels..never good even for the fish..raised water temps by as much as 10-15 degrees,and I thought trespassers were my only problem..[V].Loko
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    bang250bang250 Member Posts: 8,021
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by LOKO383
    It has been diagnosed as EHD..and this is a drought yr here in southern ohio,I'm in Gallia co. and between three families nearby we have five ponds..two large ones, our nearest neighbor has found two does dead within 20yds of a pond on two different ocassions..confirmed EHD.by DNR WILDLIFE..,while we are soon hoping for a frost to get rid of the little gnats that spread it from stagnant water holes..we hope next yr returns to normal,ie rain and average rainfall,is way down here ponds here have lost up to 5ft of water from normal levels..never good even for the fish..raised water temps by as much as 10-15 degrees,and I thought trespassers were my only problem..[V].Loko



    They breed in the mud when the water recedes thats why its worse during drought times. We did a study a few years ago and tried to catch some of them gnats. All our catches were sent to the USDA. Never heard any results.
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