What do you all think about the captive deer breeding industry?
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First, I seldom (if ever) think about deer "farming".
Second, I find it ridiculous and redundant somebody would pay THAT much for a "deer"!(?)
Third. Despite the fact those animals are vaccinated, I understand they have/spread diseases that would destroy free ranging white tails.
It just doesn't make any sense. Who of us on this site would pay $20-30K for a deer?
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Down here in south Texas captive deer breeding is very large and I've seen some of the bucks they raised, it is the craziest most ridiculous thing someone can do to a deer. I've seen deer with weird skinny necks, huge mutated looking antlers and to top it all off they have no meat on their bodies. Is that something you want to hunt.
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I'm neutral, to each their own as long as it doesn't effect the rest and not every case is this true. I mentioned the other day here in Ohio deer farmers which are few and far between are now required to have testing every year on each and every deer with a price tag of $200+ a test. It has put many of deer farmers out of business in a hurry. One I know of, they put down somewhere around 400 deer because of it. I think the testing is a necessity.
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Captive deer breeding means bad news for natural wildlife. here in southern Indiana where I live 20 escaped from a farm and one had tested positive for CWD that came from a Pennsylvania farm. We had never had any signs of CWD in Indiana, and if this incident changes that I will be one ticked off hunter.
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I like that people recognize the disease, aspect of the problem. I don't think deer should closed from the wild for more than a generation. I think it weaken's the offspring's gene's. Debunking the myth which that these deer are superior to the wild deer. There isolation and selective breeding are only after one gene, a secondary sex trait. Its the same as a puppy mill dogs over bread for particular temperament can produce defects such as a large underbite, effectively stressing the animal and causing it to have a bad temperament. It has also created the nightmare of Gene junkie's hunting in free range populations. Moral of the story it causes more trouble than it is worth. You want to kill an animal with a giant rack, you might as well do it the way cattle are. (with a metal rod shoved into its head). I mean no disrespect to the farming community most have a firm grasp of side-effects they are producing and are forced to or take measures to limit them. I have little if any respect for fenced in deer operations, its junk science.
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