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Fifty cases of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)

Fifty cases of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) were reported after a deer herd depopulation operation this summer at the location of Washington County's first recorded case, but state officials say those cases were all contained to the original site.

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) District 9 Leader Bobby Eichler informed Washington County Commissioners on Tuesday that 158 adult deer and 63 fawns were euthanized as part of the operation. The depopulation occurred in the overnight hours between August 5th and 6th at the deer-breeding facility north of Brenham, where the county's first case of CWD was reported in early 2023 in a doe that was born in the facility.

Eichler said the 50 positive cases represented roughly a third of the facility's adult herd the fawns, none older than 5 months of age, were not tested and were spread across all age groups and both sexes. He said at the time of the depopulation, 72 deer were missing from the reported herd inventory and were presumed dead.

(That's a helluva presumption)

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mpl35 said:

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In before the "Dr. Deer says" crowd shows up.

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Yesterday said:

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I'm all for high fenced ranches and improving deer genetics etc but it's really hard to ignore the fact that this is happening primarily with deer breeders.

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Queso1 said:

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Yesterday said:

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I'm all for high fenced ranches and improving deer genetics etc but it's really hard to ignore the fact that this is happening primarily with deer breeders.

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Are they really improving genetics or are they just breeding the genetics that trophy hunters want? I do not believe these are the same thing.

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Lonestar_Ag09 said:

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Weird that they are doing a mass slaughter berfore testing...they now have a test that can detect it in the rectum without killing...but according to the report I heard it takes time for CWD to be evident there.

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txags92 said:

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mpl35 said:

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In before the "Dr. Deer says" crowd shows up.

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They will be here shortly to tell us how this was an unnecessary depop because the breeder was clearly trying to save the wild herd in Texas by breeding CWD immune deer and letting 72 of them "go missing".

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montanagriz said:

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txags92 said:

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mpl35 said:

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In before the "Dr. Deer says" crowd shows up.

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They will be here shortly to tell us how this was an unnecessary depop because the breeder was clearly trying to save the wild herd in Texas by breeding CWD immune deer and letting 72 of them "go missing".

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Funny, its exactly what oklahoma is doing to fight cwd or you can be like Missouri and just kill 90% of deer in square mile to keep populations so low deer dont cone in contact and cant spread the disease. Time will tell which approach ends up the best. I just hope real scientist can come up with a solution. That solution will undoubtedly involve genetics. Hard to test any medicine or genetics when the solution offered by our intellectuals is to just kill anything that has a "chance".

Now continue on with your pitchforks and praise of tpwd leadership

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txags92 said:

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montanagriz said:

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txags92 said:

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mpl35 said:

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In before the "Dr. Deer says" crowd shows up.

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They will be here shortly to tell us how this was an unnecessary depop because the breeder was clearly trying to save the wild herd in Texas by breeding CWD immune deer and letting 72 of them "go missing".

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Funny, its exactly what oklahoma is doing to fight cwd or you can be like Missouri and just kill 90% of deer in square mile to keep populations so low deer dont cone in contact and cant spread the disease. Time will tell which approach ends up the best. I just hope real scientist can come up with a solution. That solution will undoubtedly involve genetics. Hard to test any medicine or genetics when the solution offered by our intellectuals is to just kill anything that has a "chance".

Now continue on with your pitchforks and praise of tpwd leadership

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Nobody here has expressed any desire or support for the Missouri approach. But continuing to allow the one thing proven to be spreading CWD in Texas (deer breeding for sale, transport, and release) is madness, for which TPWD should also be ridiculed. There is nothing noble about what the breeders are doing.

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mpl35 said:

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txags92 said:

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montanagriz said:

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txags92 said:

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mpl35 said:

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In before the "Dr. Deer says" crowd shows up.

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They will be here shortly to tell us how this was an unnecessary depop because the breeder was clearly trying to save the wild herd in Texas by breeding CWD immune deer and letting 72 of them "go missing".

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Funny, its exactly what oklahoma is doing to fight cwd or you can be like Missouri and just kill 90% of deer in square mile to keep populations so low deer dont cone in contact and cant spread the disease. Time will tell which approach ends up the best. I just hope real scientist can come up with a solution. That solution will undoubtedly involve genetics. Hard to test any medicine or genetics when the solution offered by our intellectuals is to just kill anything that has a "chance".

Now continue on with your pitchforks and praise of tpwd leadership

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Nobody here has expressed any desire or support for the Missouri approach. But continuing to allow the one thing proven to be spreading CWD in Texas (deer breeding for sale, transport, and release) is madness, for which TPWD should also be ridiculed. There is nothing noble about what the breeders are doing.

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That and the claim anyone on here praised TPWD leadership....no wonder he listens to Dr. Deer.

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SanAntoneAg said:

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Yet another example of why ear tags should be mandatory throughout the lifespan of captive deer in Texas.

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AstroAggie15 said:

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Hope the breeder goes out of business.

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slammerag said:

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Interesting that testing leads to positive results. Sounds like the early COVID days.

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slammerag said:

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I doubt deer breeders have any political influence. In fact, most barely break even if that - I've been around some.
I'm all for shutting it down all breeding and transport. We also need to shut down all feeding - if you do that, you will see who has political influence.

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MouthBQ98 said:

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They're not bribed but the top officials and the congress critters with committee oversight absolutely get leaned on by these big taxpayer landowners profiting from this arrangement and who hope to cash in and run before it all goes to crap between CWD and screw worms.

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slammerag said:

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I doubt deer breeders have any political influence. In fact, most barely break even if that - I've been around some.
I'm all for shutting it down all breeding and transport. We also need to shut down all feeding - if you do that, you will see who has political influence.

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