could this mule buck have cwd?

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I have seen this one buck around my place by halkirk alberta I have seen him a few times and he is unlike any deer I have ever seen he is a mule buck in velvet he is kind of skinny and it looks like his face has 75% of the hair missing he seems very unaware of me when ever I am around he was 20 yards from the road the last time i saw him I stopped and looked at him for a while and he didn't notice me.I yelled and he just kind of looked at me then went back to eating and walking around but not walking away my girlfriend was with me and she said it lookes like when he was walking he kept stepping in holes.like he was wasling kind of weird.could this deep have cwd?what should i do.thanx for any reply
 
Sounds like a possibility for sure I don't know what to tell you but I would watch it and maybe even contact the MNR in your area.
 
Depending on where you live, you should contact a wild life officer and alerthim to your suspicions. I am sure they'd do something about it.

And yes, it sounds like it suffers from some kind of brain disease.
 
ok I wasn't sure how that stood with shooting it myself I would of coarse contact the local wildlife first.I just wasn't sure what if anything they would do because if they don't take care of it I don't want it around were I hunt.
 
Maybe he was at Sign guys bbq (read in off topic);)

Doesn't sound like he is too well off.

X2 on the call the CO.

A pic would help all of us experts eh!;)
 
Chronic Wasting Disease

http://www.cwd-info.org/

What Is Chronic Wasting Disease? Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a contagious neurological disease affecting deer and elk. It causes a characteristic spongy degeneration of the brains of infected animals resulting in emaciation, abnormal behavior, loss of bodily functions and death.

What Wildlife Species Are Affected By CWD? Only four species of the deer family are known to be naturally susceptible to CWD: elk, mule deer, white-tailed deer and moose. Susceptibility of other members of the deer family (cervids) and other wildlife species is not known, although ongoing research is further exploring this question.

It is also closely related to Mad Cow Disease.

Edited to say "this info was from the website listed."
 
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that sucks, yea probably really good to get that taken care of asap. I think you should still contact wildlife and at least tell them about what you saw and where, they can probably track it down..

Hopefully it isn't too contagious.
 
BIGREDD said:
180 grain partition and five gallons of gasoline!
Just kidding... you should get in touch with the fish cops immediately.

just follow the first part of the recomendation, unless you want every deer within 20 miles of your place shot. like they did down in consort part of the country. take years to recover. better yet load the thing up and take it to the nearest game ranch...deer or elk... and drop it off where it probably contacted the sickness in the first place.:eek:
 
defintly call MNR and let them know they can atleast contain and test to see what if anything it is

and no live animals where harmed at my BBQ for all those concerned mind you i think i might have heard my wifes steak moo as i handed it to her
 
Funny thing to see this post today. I was driving back from Lillooet to Abbotsford with the wife and kid late this afternoon and saw a mulie doe on the side of the road browsing. Nice tall doe but scrawny as all get out. Plus, she wasn't shy in the least - I pulled over to let my daughter have a good look at her and she just stood there looking at us. I drove away thinking how gaunt and sickly she looked and then about 3 kms up the road there was another doe with a buck on the opposite side of the road. Once again, nice tall doe and the buck was average height but a nice fuzzy 3x3 sitting up top - yet both were skinny as a crack ho. There's either a serious lack of food for these deer or their just not getting much into them. I don't usually hunt out here in BC so am not too used to the local deer but these looked nothing like the fat assed mulies we usually see up by Whitecourt every year - granted that's later in the year but still.
 
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