CWD Found in Tennessee

[kyhunter99]

Joe rogan had a talk with ted nugent and later a wildlife biologist about CWD on his podcast the joe rogan experience, interesting stuff!
Both talks are easily found on youtube.

They talked about how Cwd jumped to a herd of caribou and the govt there (forgot the country) decided to have hunters wipe out the entire herd--2500 i think they said. Insane.
Nugent said cwd is a bueracratic conspiracy.

 

[JDMiller]

Not so sure Uncle Ted is exactly a good source of information concerning CWD.

He runs a high fence operation with Sunrise Safaris and 99% of his shows kill footage is over bait... which if I remember correctly he got busted using bait in a state that it was banned as well. So .... understandably he’s not going to be too supportive of CWD restrictions because he knows baiting bans result.

Which I’ll give him credit for his position on 2A issues... but it pretty much ends there.

 

[damon kustes]

The problem with CWD is its similarities to Mad Cow and the fear that it might one day be passed to humans who consume an infected animal

https://www.lsonews.com/research-shows-human-prion-proteins-resist-chronic-wasting-disease/

 

[kyhunter99]

Not so sure Uncle Ted is exactly a good source of information concerning CWD.

He runs a high fence operation with Sunrise Safaris and 99% of his shows kill footage is over bait... which if I remember correctly he got busted using bait in a state that it was banned as well. So .... understandably he’s not going to be too supportive of CWD restrictions because he knows baiting bans result.

Which I’ll give him credit for his position on 2A issues... but it pretty much ends there.

Oh it was a terrible interview. I think thats why rogan immediately set up with a biologist.

 

[kyhunter99]

https://www.lsonews.com/research-shows-human-prion-proteins-resist-chronic-wasting-disease/

What he is saying is it may be a concern one day as it could mutate to jump to us. Since cwd is so similar to diseases that have. Better safe than sorry.

 

[Bee]

FWIW Tennessee does not allow deer baiting with corn. Nor turkey baiting with corn.

 

[wademup]

I think EHD kills far more deer than CWD, but hunters think CWD can be quick fixed by banning baiting while its difficult to keep each water source in the state full during the summer. For every state that has found CWD not one has been devastated by it that I know of except the ones that F&W depts overreacted.

I dont mean to downplay CWD but I think it gets overplayed by many.

 

[chadwimc]

My personal opinion is to ban amish deer farmers. That seems to be the crux of the problem...

 

[Ataulbe1]

We get really bad EHD outbreaks every 5-10 years and just look how it devastates certain areas. Takes years to recover. Imagine if EHD was contagious and it took 2 years to kill the animal. That's CWD.

So with near certain impending death it is infecting other deer for up to 2 years. So essentially within 2 years you're dealing with the equivalent of a massive EHD outbreak every single year. That the way I've heard it explained. So yeah, don't want that in Ky.

 

[1wildcatfan]

My personal opinion is to ban amish deer farmers. That seems to be the crux of the problem...

what about non-amish deer farmers? they get a pass?

 

[ddwhitetails]

Does KY even do testing for CWD each year? Its just a matter of time. The state is completely surrounded by it!

 

[Groundhog14]

"Since 2002, KDFWR has tested over 28,500 deer and elk for CWD"
https://fw.ky.gov/Wildlife/Pages/Chronic-Wasting-Disease.aspx

 

[Venison4supper]

We get really bad EHD outbreaks every 5-10 years and just look how it devastates certain areas. Takes years to recover. Imagine if EHD was contagious and it took 2 years to kill the animal. That's CWD.

So with near certain impending death it is infecting other deer for up to 2 years. So essentially within 2 years you're dealing with the equivalent of a massive EHD outbreak every single year. That the way I've heard it explained. So yeah, don't want that in Ky.

That's not true because a deer with CWD still has time to reproduce once or twice before death. A deer that dies from EHD infection would die before they could reproduce.

 

[Ataulbe1]

That's not true because a deer with CWD still has time to reproduce once or twice before death. A deer that dies from EHD infection would die before they could reproduce.

But they're also passing the disease to their fawns.

 

[davers]

That's not true because a deer with CWD still has time to reproduce once or twice before death. A deer that dies from EHD infection would die before they could reproduce.

I don't believe a Deer or any animal, that is sick, will be reproducing, or be interested in reproduction per-se.