So… an air to a multi billion dollar family fortune, shot the new world record bull on some guys drive way, over a pile of apples and hay?
Color me impressed!
I care for two horses daily.
I built their tricked out sheds and mountain terrain figure 8 enclosure.
It’s not that big of a deal to care for them, about an hour a day.
Hay, horse ladies, the the horses disposition are the bigger factors.
If officials go out and kill 100 deer, boom done.
If 100 CWD infected deer are dropped into an area, they’ll continuously infect other deer for a year or two, and continuously shed infectious material onto the landscape.
Thus perpetuating the cycle, infecting more and more deer until the...
To your first question, I believe that’s why the OP posted the article..but the answer is yes.
It just seemingly happens very slowly…that is my first hand account of witnessing the change in my area.
High prevalence means more sick deer that’ll spread the disease and every single deer that...
TSE diseases mutate.
My understanding is that sheep with scrapie were kept in pens at CSU where researchers later studied mule deer, in the same pens.
The key to managing CWD is to keep the prevalence level low.
That can only be accomplished by killing deer.
Once the prevalence rate reaches...
I partook in a heated CWD discussion pertaining to WI and IL maybe two years ago and I said…just wait, to the naysayers.
CWD is a bad deal, and it takes a long time to influence population.
I’ve been dealing with and living in an endemic area of Colorado for decades, and the impacts are...