walked up on dying deer today what should I do?

[ringorock]

Complete incineration is effective for denaturing the prion, burial or landfills are also effective to remove the threat to other deer. Haven't detected CWD in Georgia to date.

Complete incineration by what means? If simply shooting down a deer and setting it on fire until it burns down is incineration, that's not enough. We saw this with scrapie where shepherds would incinerate their flocks only to raise new flock in the same pasture for them to be infected too.

 

[C.Killmaster]

The GW is there for more then watching you hunt. ?

GW's don't usually deal with disease issues, that's why there are wildlife biologists employed to monitor these things.

 

[C.Killmaster]

Complete incineration by what means? If simply shooting down a deer and setting it on fire until it burns down is incineration, that's not enough. We saw this with scrapie where shepherds would incinerate their flocks only to raise new flock in the same pasture for them to be infected too.

Using an incinerator for complete consumption of all tissue, something you probably won't achieve by setting fire to a carcass. Those pastures could have been reinfected by prion shed onto the soil and vegetation rather than the burnt carcasses. Without an incinerator, the best bet is either burial or a landfill.

 

[Turpentine]

GW's don't usually deal with disease issues, that's why there are wildlife biologists employed to monitor these things.

Well we deleted one of your listed choice s

 

[ringorock]

Using an incinerator for complete consumption of all tissue, something you probably won't achieve by setting fire to a carcass. Those pastures could have been reinfected by prion shed onto the soil and vegetation rather than the burnt carcasses. Without an incinerator, the best bet is either burial or a landfill.

Which should also be a concern with cwd, prion shed that is. Prions hang around for a long time. LONG TIME.

Not hunting related, but if anyone is curious, there is an Italian family that is affected by a prion disease that robs them of their ability to sleep. The disease is referenced as fatal familial insomnia.

As a note, every hunter needs to be aware of the signs of cwd, even in non detected states. Even though there is no evidence of cross species contamination between deer and human, we won't neccesarily know until it happens. Mad cow was dormant for what? Ten years?

 

[C.Killmaster]

Well we deleted one of your listed choice s

Sorry, you can't expect a GW to be an expert in wildlife disease anymore than you can expect a biologist to be an expert in law enforcement. Both working towards the same goal, but very different jobs.

 

[C.Killmaster]

Which should also be a concern with cwd, prion shed that is. Prions hang around for a long time. LONG TIME.

Not hunting related, but if anyone is curious, there is an Italian family that is affected by a prion disease that robs them of their ability to sleep. The disease is referenced as fatal familial insomnia.

As a note, every hunter needs to be aware of the signs of cwd, even in non detected states.

Totally agree. There's an excellent book on prion diseases called "The Family Who Couldn't Sleep" for anyone interested. I suspect you may have read it?

 

[ringorock]

Totally agree. There's an excellent book on prion diseases called "The Family Who Couldn't Sleep" for anyone interested. I suspect you may have read it?

Yes, many years ago and an excellent book.

 

[C.Killmaster]

Yes, many years ago and an excellent book.

Excellent and terrifying.

 

[Hillbilly stalker]

Bottom line is to put the animal down. Don't let it suffer, and keep it from wandering off with whatever's ailment it suffers from.

 

[Tadder]

Bottom line is to put the animal down. Don't let it suffer, and keep it from wandering off with whatever's ailment it suffers from.

Do the animal justice and take it out , thats more humane, call DNR and see if they can get it too have it checked out for what ever it has. Easy

 

[Turpentine]

Sorry, you can't expect a GW to be an expert in wildlife disease anymore than you can expect a biologist to be an expert in law enforcement. Both working towards the same goal, but very different jobs.

No.
No.
However I would expect the GW to be pretty specific in what I would need to do in OPs situation in order to NOT break any LAWS.

 

[Mark K]

I carry a .22 for this reason. They can give me a ticket if they want to. Sometimes common sense outweighs what’s written down. A suffering animal deserves a quick humane kill. If you’ve ever seen a deer hit by a car with its back broke screaming for all its worth, then you’d understand.

 

[Milkman]

I carry a .22 for this reason. They can give me a ticket if they want to. Sometimes common sense outweighs what’s written down. A suffering animal deserves a quick humane kill. If you’ve ever seen a deer hit by a car with its back broke screaming for all its worth, then you’d understand.

Yep
I had to put one down with a claw hammer one time.

 

[Nicodemus]

No matter if the season is in or not, or even if a critter doesn`t have a season, I put it out of its misery and go on my way. I`ll not see something suffer needlessly.

 

[Hillbilly stalker]

I've put a lot of them down while on patrol in my time. It's the humane thing to do.

 

[Johnny 71]

If I were going to call the DNR about the deer, then I would definitely not put it down, their biologists may want to have a look first
If I were going to put it down, then I wouldn’t call, it’s the human thing to do, but it’s not the legal thing to do

 

[Bigbendgyrene]

Barring any obvious injury or old age, more than likely EHD and especially considering time of year. Educational read from the GON site itself...
http://www.gon.com/hunting/ehd-on-the-radar

 

[Mako22]

Starting tomorrow there's going to be a lot of deer dying in front of me.

 

[1980z28camaro]

Biologists came out to the club this morning and picked up the deer was a very nice guy said its hoofs look fine and he didn't think it was blue tongue but probably some type of EHD it was going to send it off to the lab would let me know in a couple weeks