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It's taking toll alright..

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I know there have been other threads about EHD. However I came across this picture online from a guy I follow, and figured I would share it. Hopefully it'll post correctly and be viewable. Maybe some of you on here may know this guy, have seen this picture or have more knowledge then I do on it. But these deer were all discovered when the crops were being picked and cut.
 
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I can speak only from what I know first hand. On the property I hunt, which is 350 acres in German Township, Harrison County, we have not had a mature buck on camera since July. This is no joke. Sitting in stands during the rut from practically sunrise to sunset and not seeing any bucks over 2 years old. Very disheartening. We border Jefferson County, which from what I'm hearing, was devastated by EHD this summer.
 
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What a shame! I have a sneaky suspicion that Geauga county got hammered with EHD also. I had mature bucks on trail camera regularly until that September drought hit.
To dat, I have spent over 40 hours on stand this season with exactly 1 mature /shooter buck sighting. Also, very few mature doe.
Why does it seems EHD hits the mature animals the hardest?
 
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What a shame! I have a sneaky suspicion that Geauga county got hammered with EHD also. I had mature bucks on trail camera regularly until that September drought hit.
To dat, I have spent over 40 hours on stand this season with exactly 1 mature /shooter buck sighting. Also, very few mature doe.
Why does it seems EHD hits the mature animals the hardest?
This sounds very typical for deer sightings on stand around me on a banner year haha........ehd sucks and guys will go out and still kill what they can during shotgun making a comeback harder. Basically a double harvest year or worse....
 
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We also have been commenting how few mature does we are seeing, the old "football head" does are very few it seems this year on our property. Oh well, waterfowl season is about to come back in the south zone! Very discouraging deer season after much anticipation all summer running cameras.
 
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I had a doe come by twice early this season. The first time she was sneezing.....the 2nd time which was a week later she was coughing. Sounded like a dog with kennel cough if you've ever heard that. I couldn't get a shot at her either time. I wanted to shoot her just to keep her from passing whatever she had to other deer. Haven't seen her since that 2nd time which was probably 2-3 Weeks ago so she may have went down.
 
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View attachment 25775 I know there have been other threads about EHD. However I came across this picture online from a guy I follow, and figured I would share it. Hopefully it'll post correctly and be viewable. Maybe some of you on here may know this guy, have seen this picture or have more knowledge then I do on it. But these deer were all discovered when the crops were being picked and cut.
Great post Dennis!!! That's a whole other monster there ehd!!!
 
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The word was Jefferson got hit hard with EHD as well as parts of Columbiana County. Our wildlife officer said German and Green Townships were hardest hit in Harrison County , which both border Jefferson County.
 
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I hunt in Green Township. I am still getting does and bucks on my trail cam, but I am really afraid to take any due to the fact it could take awhile for the population to recover. We went for a period back in June/July where there was a lot of rain and then August and September came with no rain..

Another property that is within a mile of my location near Foxes bottom said he counted 16 deer dead by creek. The farmer next door to him said he quit counting after 20.

Are deer still able to get EHD this time of year? Does anyone know if they are working on developing some sort of cure?
 
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Here is some data from Eastern Kentucky......They are good at the details....

"As of November 15, 2017:

In Floyd County, where 439 cases of dead or dying deer have been reported, 104 deer have been taken by hunters. Last season hunters bagged a total of 891 deer in the county.

In Morgan County, where 274 cases of dead or dying deer have been reported, 202 deer have been taken by hunters. Last season hunters bagged a total of 1,081 deer in the county.

In Pike County, where 576 cases of dead or dying deer have been reported, 286 have been taken by hunters. Last season hunters bagged a total of 1,508 deer in the county.

The infectious viral disease, that kills white-tailed deer and other wild ruminants periodically throughout the eastern half of the U.S. and southern Canada, is spread by several species of flying insects in the genus Culicoides.

Deer usually die in eight to 36 hours following the onset of observable signs, which include labored breathing, excessive salivation, no fear of humans, lameness, swelling of the head, neck or eyelids, or blue tissue coloration around their mouth and nose. Infected deer that survive for a longer period of time experience lameness, loss of appetite and greatly reduced activity.

High fever causes deer to seek out water. That's why carcasses are usually found in or near ponds or streams.

Reports of dead or dying deer began increasing in September.

By November 2, 2017 KDFWR had received 4,586 reports from 86 Kentucky counties as far west as Marshall County. The epicenter of the outbreak was east of Interstate-75, where five counties reporting more than 200 cases. Twelve other counties in the region reported from 100 to 200 cases."

Map by county with total cases reported below-

https://fw.ky.gov/Wildlife/Documents/EHDMap.pdf
 
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Hey Brother, my name is Jonathan and m my wife and I are moving her mother from Greenfield Ohio . And so I'd like to hunt for the few days that we are here. Was hoping maybe you would be willing to give me some pointers on where to go. I'm very close to paint Creek.
paint creek is good. park one car on weller and another on dreyer and walk between the two roads.lots of hilly good terrain in there. you will see the land bridge as well. pretty neat.
 
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Can only hope that people are truly thinking of the future and not shooting everything they see and filling every tag they can. As many deer that were found dead this summer there will be very few if any deer left if hunters can't control themselves. Hunting is not just about killing but preservation and conservation also.
 
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Man, that’s one of the worst and heartbreaking pics I’ve ever seen. It’s amazing how just a couple counties on any side of the compass can have such drastic differences in EHD outbreaks. We’ve been hunting in Adams County for half a dozen years now. We were there the 2nd week of November and saw more healthy mature bucks in 5 days than we had seen the last 5 seasons combined. 2 years ago we took a big 8 during gun season. It looked pretty healthy on the outside, but it was absolutely rotten on the inside. No doubt it was EHD. Just a reminder to let the DNR know when we suspect a deer has EHD.
 
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Man, that's one of the worst and heartbreaking pics I've ever seen. It's amazing how just a couple counties on any side of the compass can have such drastic differences in EHD outbreaks. We've been hunting in Adams County for half a dozen years now. We were there the 2nd week of November and saw more healthy mature bucks in 5 days than we had seen the last 5 seasons combined. 2 years ago we took a big 8 during gun season. It looked pretty healthy on the outside, but it was absolutely rotten on the inside. No doubt it was EHD. Just a reminder to let the DNR know when we suspect a deer has EHD.
Just curious what you saw in the body?
 
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Hard frost kill the biting insects that spread the disease among deer. There is no cure but EHD deaths are localized meaning your property could have it and the property across the road might not. If the deer travel and drink from
both water sources they are potentially exposed to it. There’s questions I have too for example does the type of water source have an effect (pond, creek, river, plastic lined waterhole)? I do know the midges breed in the mud around water.
 
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Hunt Smithfield Township near Adena, found a few dead on our place also. Still seeing deer on the camera but nothing close to what was on the camera in the beginning of summer. Unfortunately, we are surrounded by meat hunters from the north that shoot anything they see. They only really come down during gun and just want there deer, with no real understanding of what is really going on in the area. Hope there's some left as the kids are taking an interest in hunting, just hope there is some for them to see and people don't completely wipe out the herd.
 
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