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Alberta Wildlife just called me. The mule deer I killed over there this fall tested positive for CWD. So now I wait for a call from officials in BC to let me know how they want me to dispose of the meat. Half my wild game supply for this year, gone!
 
savage 110L said:
Alberta Wildlife just called me. The mule deer I killed over there this fall tested positive for CWD. So now I wait for a call from officials in BC to let me know how they want me to dispose of the meat. Half my wild game supply for this year, gone!
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I would be interested to know where you bagged it, and how much time elapsed between the sampling and the call with the test result. I am personnally interested as I am planning on hunting muley in Alberta next year as this will be the fourth year that I enter the draw and technically, I should have a 93% chance of being drawn for a tag next year.
 
I got it in unit 204. It was a weird deal all around, I had to make a quick decision to shoot as I was on the edge of thick brush. The deer looked like a good 4x4, antlers outside the ears, tall. Talk about ground shrink though! The smallest bodied muley I have ever killed. We didn’t weigh him but I bet the carcass wasn’t 100 lbs. So I got fooled, killed an ordinary buck, now I can’t even eat the darn thing!

On the plus side, partners buck tested negative. Still waiting on results from his whitetail.
 
Ouch!

Sounds to me like that deer was a candidate for an immediate call to the CO's anyway. If the carcass was as wasted away as you are saying, I think I would have bells ringing in my head like crazy.

I have been involved with hunts twice, that came up with animals that were ...strange... One was determined to be harmless, it was a buck that had gotten in to some Ergot infested grain, and it's hooves were really buggered up. A friend who is a Vetrinarian, looked at it and said it was pretty typical results of eating ergot grain. The other was a buck that was heavily infected from a previous wound, absolutely grossly unfit for eating.

In both cases the CO's we dealt with were quite willing to replace the tags so that we could replace the deer if we needed to.
 
Betty-Lou said:
Why would you have to dispose of the meat? I thought CWD was linked to the central nervous system? Were you required to debone the meat before transporting back to BC?
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Absolutely and that’s what I did. CWD is also not known to cross species. Yet.

Would you want to be the first?
 
trevj said:
Ouch!

Sounds to me like that deer was a candidate for an immediate call to the CO's anyway. If the carcass was as wasted away as you are saying, I think I would have bells ringing in my head like crazy.

I have been involved with hunts twice, that came up with animals that were ...strange... One was determined to be harmless, it was a buck that had gotten in to some Ergot infested grain, and it's hooves were really buggered up. A friend who is a Vetrinarian, looked at it and said it was pretty typical results of eating ergot grain. The other was a buck that was heavily infected from a previous wound, absolutely grossly unfit for eating.

In both cases the CO's we dealt with were quite willing to replace the tags so that we could replace the deer if we needed to.
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My experience with the local CO wasn't so "positive", co-incidentally the same CO that patrols the WMU that tis deer was killed. I killed a buck a few yrs ago and when the hide was jerked obvious horn wounds were evident and the back straps were a very vibrant green color with the appropriate odor along with the color. I phone in requesting a new tag ...the CO's response was "we wont give you a new tag but if you bring a specimen of the deer in we'll let you know in 6 month's or so if you can eat it...I didn't need six month's to decide if I was going to eat that deer...I didn't need 10 min. got three $100 coyotes off the carcass so eat beef the rest of the winter.
 
fingers284 said:
My experience with the local CO wasn't so "positive", co-incidentally the same CO that patrols the WMU that tis deer was killed. I killed a buck a few yrs ago and when the hide was jerked obvious horn wounds were evident and the back straps were a very vibrant green color with the appropriate odor along with the color. I phone in requesting a new tag ...the CO's response was "we wont give you a new tag but if you bring a specimen of the deer in we'll let you know in 6 month's or so if you can eat it...I didn't need six month's to decide if I was going to eat that deer...I didn't need 10 min. got three $100 coyotes off the carcass so eat beef the rest of the winter.
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You got $300.00 for your troubles, I would say that was good for the Alberta Beef Farmers ;)
just trying to make lite of your serious situation.
SSS was another option.
Rob
 
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