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guitarzan
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I usually head west to Nebraska to hunt deer in November, but this year I think I'll skip the trip. I wonder how many other hunters will do the same? What kind of an impact will this have on non-resident deer tag (or elk tag) sales in the effected states? In case you haven't checked the Iowa DNR website, Iowa will only allow boned out meat, a skull plate with the antlers and a cape. Since you can't bring the skull back to Iowa, how many hunters know how to skin the hide off of the skull? Not me! I can only speak for myself, but after I shoot my deer I like to enjoy an adult beverage or two, not start caping my kill! I'm a little concerned how Iowa is going to enforce this. But I hope they do.
Fishbonker
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I know this is a bit of a streach, but I remeber a few years ago when CWD was big in England they traced the cause back to the feed the cattle were on. They were being fed mineral supplements made from the bones of cattle. I belive the practice has been halted as some of the bones may have been infected with CWD. Here is the streach, with more and more hunters trying to ensure trophy racks they are putting out minerals. What are the chances that these supplements may also be to blame? You would think that our beef industry would also have CWD because some folks use regular cattle mineral for deer. So it maybe that the bags of supplement made for deer and elk may have been made from the bones of diseased deer and/or elk. What does the DOT do with road kill they pick up? Rendering plants? What do wild game ranches do with carcasses? Rendering plants? Does the USDA regulate where the calcium comes from in domestic animal supplements? Do they regulate where calcium comes from in deer and elk supplements?
Again, as I recall, the story from England was it took several generations of cattle eating infected supplements with each generation concentrating the virus in its marrow and then their bones being ground into calcium for the next generation to eat and on and on before a steer/cow could actually contract the disease from the supplement. So lets say wild game ranch "A" has some animals that die from "something" or are harvested. They want to save some money so they grind up the bones and feed them back to thier stock and keep doing that, eventually the disease will consume their whole herd and they wonder how it started. If the USDA regulates that no wild game parts can be used in domestic supplements but its OK to use them in wild game supplements, wild game ranch "B" sells its bones a company that makes wild game supplements maybe thats where it came from.
I know its way out there, but you never know....and I am in no way trying to condem wild animal ranches.
The 'Bonker
Again, as I recall, the story from England was it took several generations of cattle eating infected supplements with each generation concentrating the virus in its marrow and then their bones being ground into calcium for the next generation to eat and on and on before a steer/cow could actually contract the disease from the supplement. So lets say wild game ranch "A" has some animals that die from "something" or are harvested. They want to save some money so they grind up the bones and feed them back to thier stock and keep doing that, eventually the disease will consume their whole herd and they wonder how it started. If the USDA regulates that no wild game parts can be used in domestic supplements but its OK to use them in wild game supplements, wild game ranch "B" sells its bones a company that makes wild game supplements maybe thats where it came from.
I know its way out there, but you never know....and I am in no way trying to condem wild animal ranches.
The 'Bonker
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Fishbonker:
The disease Enland suffered so terribly from was BSE, "mad cow disease", not CWD. Not the same thing. I think also that the US Dept. of Ag has now banned the feeding of supplements containing animal by-products here in the states. We had a feed supplier here in Texas prosecuted last year for doing it. Your point is well taken, though.
The disease Enland suffered so terribly from was BSE, "mad cow disease", not CWD. Not the same thing. I think also that the US Dept. of Ag has now banned the feeding of supplements containing animal by-products here in the states. We had a feed supplier here in Texas prosecuted last year for doing it. Your point is well taken, though.