EHD and the deer kills

I AM FOOT FOOT

I AM FOOT FOOT

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Ive personally for 17 dead deer on 2 farms, mostly bucks due to ehd, the land owner is finding even more,and same story for everyone in the north east part of the state.

 
I just got an email from my DNR guy saying they are seeing a lot of it in Southern Iowa and will be taking samples from the deer taken this year!

 
One of our officers, who is a HUGE deer hunter, lives in Madison County here in Iowa. He says they found 200 dead along the river in the area. Apparently it's Midge Flies in the water from the drought. The larva is in the standing water, the deer drink the standing water and it eats them from the inside out and they are dead within 48 hours. Don't think I'll be going deer hunting this year.

 
Pretty bad around my farm. About a dozen dead so far . . . and those are just the ones I've stumbled upon by accident. In fact, one doe wasn't quite dead yet but she was awfully close. Expect that number to hit 100 or so before we get a hard enough freeze to kill the bugs. Yikes.

 
i havent seen any dead deer. but my dad went out up by norfolk and said that the land owner was out on the river in his air boat and saw many deer dead and my dad said he had one right below his stand dead. I checked my trail cameras saturday afternoon but didnt see anything while out there. I wasnt really looking though. But no major river in the area either... who knows. This doesnt sound good though.

 
One of our officers neighbors went out for youth season with his son and said they seen a few doe stumbling around like they were sick before they shot a buck who appeared to be okay.

 
been out twice hunting, im not seeing much at all compared to previous years, found a nice 5x6 ,135ish dead on the way to my stand, been there a while. good luck every body

 
found 4 more today that had been dead a month or so, could smell 2 more, all does, did have a 130 ish 5x5 come in last night right at dark, its always the 1 shooting lane you dont cut

 
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