Anyone ever have this happen?

[SneakAttack]

I helped a buddy get an antler-less elk tonight. When we got to it I immediately saw that it was covered in ticks. Big ones, little ones, mama ticks, daddy ticks, baby itty bitty ticks. There were blad spots in several areas where the ticks were concentrated. Now here's where it got a bit strange. You could pull hand fulls of hair out with little effort. Like a cape that had began to slip due to bacteria growth. Question: could the elk have been sick? Is the hair loss caused by the ticks? It's been very cold the last few weeks, could that cause the hair to fall out easily? Do you think it's safe to eat the meat? My buddy is gonna call the biologist tomorrow. What are your thoughts?

 

[BRUIN4L]

Maybe shot by that clubhouse they talk about on here?

 

[elkassassin]

I've seen the SJ Deer Lousy with Ticks!

Gotta be driving the Animal Insane!

Funny part is I haven't seen many Ticks on the SJ Elk?

We shouldn't be shootin Cow Elk in January & February!

Just think:

Everytime He cooks any of that Elk Meat,What's He gonna think about?

TICKS!

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[AZStickman]

I was helping my brother out on his archery Elk hunt last September and had one small Bull that loved getting front of the video camera. He had lumps all over him (Ticks). We nicknamed him Lumpy. We had explicit intstructions from the wives not to shoot Lumpy! He was the only Elk we saw that had that problem. Not sure how it would affect the meat but like EA says you would be thinking about it everytime you took a bite of it...... Terry

 

[SneakAttack]

I tried to get my wife to check me for ticks last night. She looked at me with disgust and walked away! Go figure?

January elk taste the best Bessy! I especially like that small little sandwich sized veal the cows have. Mmmmm Mmmmmm!

 

[elkun]

shooting elk in dec and january must be some hard up sob s ,jezzs, little sandwich in cows. why dont you show us a 'picture so every body can see what youve done,,,

 

[SneakAttack]

Really? You can't be serious. How many pics do you want!

 

[ColoradoOak]

Yes, winter ticks (Dermacentor albipictus) will cause hair loss in elk and moose. Often it is confined to the neck area, but can be all over the body with a bad infestation.

Here is a photo I took this last spring of a spike with hair loss from ticks.

 

[SneakAttack]

Yikes! That's messed up! That poor sucker is bad off. Thanks ColoradoOak, good input. One guy told us it could be ring worm...that really freaked me out. I'll go with your story...I feel better already!

 

[mntman]

That is not an elk, it is a unipaca!

Mntman

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[DesertGhillie]

>Yes, winter ticks (Dermacentor albipictus) will
>cause hair loss in elk
>and moose. Often it
>is confined to the neck
>area, but can be all
>over the body with a
>bad infestation.
>
>Here is a photo I took
>this last spring of a
>spike with hair loss from
>ticks.

Was that a Colorado pic? I've been trouncing around for 30 yrs in Colorado and have never even seen one tick.

 

[ColoradoOak]

>Was that a Colorado pic?
>I've been trouncing around for
>30 yrs in Colorado and
>have never even seen one
>tick.


Yes, it was Colorado. Where this photo was taken, it's not uncommon to pick them off of your pant legs by the tens if you spend much time walking through the brush in the springtime.

 

[tailchasers]

Every year we pick ticks of our late season cows. Always seem to hang around under the tale. Nasty little suckers.

And that picture Oak is wierd to say the very least, never seen anything like that before!

"Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway."

 

[cantkillathing]

I was capping out a bull once on the SJ and the ear canal of the bull started moving around, both ears were crammed full of ticks covered in ear wax, it was nasty.

 

[Zeke]

If you ever hunt Spring black bear in Montana you'd better do it with someone you like. You'll need to do "tick patrol" every night on each other. We always find several ticks.

I love to heat an old pot on the stove and drop the little suckers into it and hear them pop!

Some years we find them by the hundreds, on our clothes, throughout the day afield.

I hate ticks!

Zeke

 

[SneakAttack]

Zeke, this old surveyor I worked with years ago would always drop them on the truck cigarette lighter so he could hear them 'scream'! Burn'em all!

 

[BCBOY]

Hair loss from ticks can prove fatal for the animal in the winter. In some areas of BC, ticks are a major factor in winter kill moose.