sep0667
Land of the Whitetail
Its giving me flashbacks to 2018. That year was really bad in this area on the trails. Its not near as bad now at least.
Here we go again EHD????
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Thinkin Rut
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I'd say 6-8 places where I could smell death. No idea if they were deer, only guessing. In 2018, I would see deer nightly until I started smelling them, then none. Nasty stuff!
Northwest MO has it too. Not sure how bad but bad enough.
smithhunter1975
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My neighbor to farm in SE Iowa sent me a pic of a 4-5 year old buck he found yesterday. Not good!
Thinkin Rut
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Decatur county
That more aligns with CWD than EHD if you read up on the symptoms of each. It made it to Lucas County last year, so right in the neighborhood
Just like all the suddenly skinny celebrities he’s not on Ozempic!
Thinkin Rut
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That definitely crossed my mind. I had pics of him 3 days apart moving normally? No deer in the ponds. All other deer looked normal...I guess they die of all sorts of reasons(best case). My son killed a EHD survivor buck a few years back that was very thin like this but he went through hell getting there. Usually a blank stare with drool coming from their mouth. We'll see.
northcedar
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12 years ago we had pics of a nearly identical looking animal. Thought for sure he would've been dead 5 minutes after the pic. 2 months later the neighbor harvested the buck. In the harvest pics he looked full rut and perfectly healthy. A big 160+ 8 pointer. I was pretty shocked.
Muddyrem
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I think we as hunters are part of this equation by fear factoring one and other. Think about how many trail cameras each of you run today compared to 5 or even 10 years ago. Take that times the number of hunters in Iowa and that’s how many more trail cameras are being deployed. Throw in cell cameras, and a deer hardly moves without someone knowing it.
EHD hits us every year. Some worse than others. Just the norm now unfortunately……..
EHD hits us every year. Some worse than others. Just the norm now unfortunately……..
CottonwoodCanyon
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FWIW, I did a last minute scout and hung three stands in Appanoose co yesterday. Walked the creek for sneaky access and checked the pond. No signs of dead deer!
big+tall+mass
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In the last 2 weeks I’ve found 4 so far this year. 2 of which were in my pond the last 2 days; one buck and one doe . Watched the doe walk in circles in water up to her neck, eventually slipping under and splashing for a few seconds then die. With the forecast this is just the start of it. Such a depressing feeling.
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I smelled one on the West property line of pickard park (indianola) last week near the creek crossing. Couldn't spot it, but the smell is unmistakable. Might have been just over the fence into private ground. Didn't look terribly hard
hillrunner
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Crap, every frigging year.
Muddyrem
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It’s getting really bad last couple days. I found 4 on one farm in southern Warren county. Have noticed significantly more buzzards flying around, less deer on camera. Fixing to be a crappy fall if this weather doesn’t change and change fast. I know guys in Dallas county getting slammed too.
DMarley83
DMARLEY83
Also located in S warren Co & Have also noticed a lot of birds in the sky but not many perched up. Flying looks bad but imo they are looking not finding when flying.
Did kick about 25 buzzards off a fresh 1 but wound up being a neighbors youth deer that got away...
Was glad to find what I did. Was assuming differently.