Colorado and CWD

BenHuntn · Nov 28, 2018

Well this year my wife and I were lucky to bag 2 great bucks the 3rd season in unit 3. However it was a mandatory CWD testing unit. Low and behold both bucks tested positive. The CDC and all the wildlife agencies say to throw the meat away and do not consume it. This problem seems to be quite prevalent in NW CO and parts of WY. After doing much research on the subject I do not think it is worth the risk with so many unknowns. There is nothing you can do to rid the meat of the prions. I asked about mountain lions and their consumption of deer that are infected. They told me that their studies show that the lions don't contract CWD however they become carriers of the disease. Let the opinions fly.

coloradoman · Nov 28, 2018

Read my (and others) post on your other thread.....

I'll tell you what.... I will trade you all of my store bought beef, pork and poultry in my freezer for your venison that your afraid to eat????
This has been around since the 60's
I'm 51 my grandparents,parents and children grew up on this stuff!

Want to trade?

coloradoman · Nov 28, 2018

BTW
We killed 4 bucks in western Colorado this year. 3 were in a new mandatory CWD unit .
Those 3 were my GF and her kids. I told them not to have them tested because they require GPS coordinates or pinpointed on a map witch is total BS!!?

All came back negative!

I killed mine in unit 40 which is not on the list yet and even if it was CPW will never know where I kill my deer.

DW · Nov 28, 2018

I just opened a jar off the 4th season buck I didn't test and made some bbq pulled venison sandwiches. They were delicious, thought never crossed my mind.

#livelikezac

elks96 · Nov 28, 2018

>BTW
>We killed 4 bucks in western
>Colorado this year. 3 were
>in a new mandatory CWD
>unit .
>Those 3 were my GF and
>her kids. I told them
>not to have them tested
>because they require GPS coordinates
>or pinpointed on a map
>witch is total BS!!?
>
>All came back negative!
>
>I killed mine in unit 40
>which is not on the
>list yet and even if
>it was CPW will never
>know where I kill my
>deer.

Sorry but not giving the coordinates is childish. They need those coordinates to create better and have better plans for the disease. Everything we know about deer indicates how habitual they are... Looking at data points can show how deer in only 1 or 2 canyon in the entire unit are testing positive for CWD. Without those points the CPW will assume all deer in the area are having issues. As a result they will start killing all deer in the area.

I have looked at the data, it is amazing what the data points can show in terms of trends and infection rates etc.

Why are you worried about the CPW knowing the location of your kill location? Poaching or just selfish and putting your need to kill above the herds health?

Sorry this was a little harsh but your response seemed a little more childish than necessary.

coloradoman · Nov 28, 2018

BS
I will gladly give a general location to the location but never GPS coordinates.
Your mileage might vary but not mine!
Childish? Come on man. Born and raised here just because you don't agree don't bust my balls!

coloradoman · Nov 28, 2018

BTW
Deer migrate and move all year so how is GPS coordinates on a kill tracking what canyon or ridge that it came from??

gopher1 · Nov 28, 2018

Is this just mother nature taking care of nature . Just saying,the thing that bugs me cwd been around for years, and theirs no real way to treat the situation . But in the end tax payers will feel the pinch. And yes mine came back negative

coloradoman · Nov 28, 2018

I apologize for my opinion but the deer I killed I've been been watching since July.
He moved more than 10 miles.
How is that getting to the root of the problem?

DeerHunter53 · Nov 29, 2018

Question is there any kind of color or tissue color to see to determine if the deer has CWD or not by sight? Or do they have to test the animal to find out.

This year I shot a buck that seemed normal until I went to take the skull out for a Euro mount. Then I found some green puss like areas in his ear area and then his throat was filled with green mucus. No other place on the deer and he tastes just fine.

Just wondering if anyone else has ran into this issue

DW · Nov 30, 2018

>Question is there any kind of
>color or tissue color to
>see to determine if the
>deer has CWD or not
>by sight? Or do they
>have to test the animal
>to find out.
>
The nodes along the neck at the base of the skull must be tested in a lab. There was a post awhile back on a different site that a butcher deemed a deer infected. I think he screwed a hunter out of a deer.

>This year I shot a buck
>that seemed normal until I
>went to take the skull
>out for a Euro mount.
>Then I found some green
>puss like areas in his
>ear area and then his
>throat was filled with green
>mucus. No other place on
>the deer and he tastes
>just fine.
>
>Just wondering if anyone else has
>ran into this issue

I haven't but what you describe sounds more like an infection, maybe from an old wound. Not a sign of cwd. IMHO

#livelikezac

Longshot349 · Nov 30, 2018

I agree, that sounds more like the gland excretions or a possible wound. It's nasty looking, but I've not heard of CWD looking like that.

I'm not sure where I come down on CWD yet. I don't think I would eat a positive animal myself, but at the same time, I know supermarket beef, chicken, and pork can be downright nasty too and contain a BUNCH of stuff.

In many lakes and rivers they say don't eat the fish, don't drink coffee, don't eat potato chips, lay off the fat and candy, on and on it goes.

The bible pretty much nailed it when it says, we're all gonna die of something.

brutus54 · Dec 1, 2018

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>Question is there any kind of
>color or tissue color to
>see to determine if the
>deer has CWD or not
>by sight? Or do they
>have to test the animal
>to find out.
>
>This year I shot a buck
>that seemed normal until I
>went to take the skull
>out for a Euro mount.
>Then I found some green
>puss like areas in his
>ear area and then his
>throat was filled with green
>mucus. No other place on
>the deer and he tastes
>just fine.
>
>Just wondering if anyone else has
>ran into this issue

This is something else that was going around because of the drought last summer. Confirmed by CPW.

https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/aganimals/epizootic-hemorrhagic-disease-ehd

https://www.growingdeer.tv/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Epizootic-Hemorrhagic-Disease-Fact-Sheet.pdf