This is just getting wierd

[horst]

Ive been posting on and off about the number of dead deer ive been finding.Yesterday me and my brother in law were looking for snow geese and had his dog in the back of the truck.4 deer were crossing the road ahead of where we were parked.The dog seen them and jumped out.He chased them down into a thicket by the slough where he stopped and the deer went out the other side into the cattails.

We pulled down there to get the dog and I seen another dead deer in the thicket.I went in to look at it and there lay a small doe, not a mark on it.She had just died not more than a hour or two before that, she wasnt stiff or nothing and was still fairly warm.

There wasnt any broken bones i could see and no blood coming out the nose or mouth like shed been hit by a car.No bullet holes in her.Nothing, looked like she just layed down and died.She was a young, healthy looking deer other than being dead.Wonder if they havent got something killing them off around here.

 

[muddy]

is the DNR looking into this? testing for anything?

 

[moosehunter]

contact a dnr bioligist to find out whats going on. ya never know if something nasty is out there. better be safe than sorry

 

[5465]

i myself have found 8 deer dead on my property, just 40 acres! only 1 had been shot the rest of the deer showed no sign of a shot or being hit by a car! tests were done and there is no sign of any disease. that is a lot of deer to find dead in just 40 acres of land, also the first deer i found was a 150 class 8 point! only thing i was told was a local butcher told me that a wilted cherry leaf will kill a horse and a goat,so why wouldn't it kill a deer, he thinks that is my problem! he said there is a lot of poisons and bacteria in a wilted cherry leaf! i only have 4 cherry trees on my whole property and i'll be cutting those down right away!

 

[Sexcrazedbuck]

There is some mysterious problem causing elk to die off as well. Out in Wyoming some 250+ elk have been found dead due to unknown causes. Hope this crap discontinues.

 

[NWBuck]

A few years back we found quite a few dead deer following an exceptionally tough winter. Most of these were small, young deer that were probably late dropped fawns the spring before. We did have a pretty tough winter up here, so maybe that's part of the issue as well.

NWBuck

 

[Daver]

Regarding the elk die-off in Wyoming... I read on ESPN Outdoors last night where they think they have that issue diagnosed. It appears as though the culprit is a form of lichen that the elk ate this winter that they normally do not. Anyway, that's what the story said.