EHD and the deer kills

[I AM FOOT FOOT]

Ive personally for 17 dead deer on 2 farms, mostly bucks due to ehd, the land owner is finding even more,and same story for everyone in the north east part of the state.

[hskerholic]

I just got an email from my DNR guy saying they are seeing a lot of it in Southern Iowa and will be taking samples from the deer taken this year!

[BigRedBuster]

Wow...this sounds bad.

 

http://outdoornebraska.ne.gov/blogs/2012/08/ehd-continues-kill-nebraska-deer/

 

I guess this is affecting my area also.

[I AM FOOT FOOT]

im up to 27, just found one a half mile from my house

[BIGREDIOWAN]

One of our officers, who is a HUGE deer hunter, lives in Madison County here in Iowa. He says they found 200 dead along the river in the area. Apparently it's Midge Flies in the water from the drought. The larva is in the standing water, the deer drink the standing water and it eats them from the inside out and they are dead within 48 hours. Don't think I'll be going deer hunting this year.

[carlfense]

Pretty bad around my farm. About a dozen dead so far . . . and those are just the ones I've stumbled upon by accident. In fact, one doe wasn't quite dead yet but she was awfully close. Expect that number to hit 100 or so before we get a hard enough freeze to kill the bugs. Yikes.

[huskerenner]

Anyone been out bow hunting?Just wonder what you are seeing out there.Had to work all weekend. Haven't found any dead around my place,...yet!

[95huskers]

i havent seen any dead deer. but my dad went out up by norfolk and said that the land owner was out on the river in his air boat and saw many deer dead and my dad said he had one right below his stand dead. I checked my trail cameras saturday afternoon but didnt see anything while out there. I wasnt really looking though. But no major river in the area either... who knows. This doesnt sound good though.

[huskerenner]

Thanks for the info.Went out this evening.Didn't see anything dead or alive.

[BIGREDIOWAN]

One of our officers neighbors went out for youth season with his son and said they seen a few doe stumbling around like they were sick before they shot a buck who appeared to be okay.

[I AM FOOT FOOT]

been out twice hunting, im not seeing much at all compared to previous years, found a nice 5x6 ,135ish dead on the way to my stand, been there a while. good luck every body

[hskerholic]

What we need an early freeze one night to kill all the midge flies/larva.

[I AM FOOT FOOT]

found 4 more today that had been dead a month or so, could smell 2 more, all does, did have a 130 ish 5x5 come in last night right at dark, its always the 1 shooting lane you dont cut

[carlfense]

Talked to one Nebraska game warden today who estimates approximately 40% mortality in his northern Nebraska area.

[BigRedBuster]

There are a lot of people very concerned about this in my area. Along with this, they are concerned that the drought has left pastures so short that there isn't much for them to eat over the winter.

 

Pheasant population could be decimated for the same reason.