monster find

[OneShy]

I don't know if you guys know this or not, but if you find a skull with antlers you must contact your conservation officer and get a carcass/disposal tag before removing the skull from the spot you found it. It does not look like an EHD deer to me. I was told by the c.o. that gave me a tag for the skull I found that if the bumps on the base of the antlers are smoothed over/rounded its not EHD. He said that if there smoothed over the buck had already been rubbing and EHD deer were killed while still in velvet.

[rickhise]

I would disagree with that, because of what we found over a period of months, this blue tongue was a long process in Cumberland county, so I say our deer were exposed to it from early hot summer up to late oct. b4 we had a hint of a frost.....
If I understood you correctly the bucks were only exposed during velvet, not what we saw, wasn't the disease transmitted by a type of a mite ??? and it took a heavy frost to kill the mite

[Tim_T]

I would disagree with that, because of what we found over a period of months, this blue tongue was a long process in Cumberland county, so I say our deer were exposed to it from early hot summer up to late oct. b4 we had a hint of a frost.....
If I understood you correctly the bucks were only exposed during velvet, not what we saw, wasn't the disease transmitted by a type of a mite ??? and it took a heavy frost to kill the mite

You are right it is a small mite and it doesn't die until after a frost. The drought conditions and unseasonably warm temps are what made the ehd outbreak so bad last season.

[OneShy]

I'm no wildlife biologist I'm just going by the information shown to me by the conservation officer that gave me the carcass tags. Three different skulls of bucks were found and you could definetly tell the difference at the bases of the antlers if the had been rubbing or not. Two were still in velvet and one was not.One grossed over 150 the other two were around 140.(two ten pointers and an eleven) No matter what the case is still ***** that all these mature bucks were killed because of the EHD outbreak. Hopefully it doesn't happen again.

[bereabasser]

Luckily we only found 1 dead one on our place last year but it also was a dandy 8 pointer...alot of people ive talked to this year have blamed EHD for not seeing alot of deer this year,i dont know if that was the case for our farm or not but we didnt see the usual amount of deer this year neither