We are a hunting couple in central Missouri in Oregon County and my husband has seen a gross decline of deer on our 40 acres. We found out that our neighbor signed up the MDC ''Targeted Kill'' program and has supplied my neighbor with 150 lbs of tax funded corn for the Targeted kill that lasts from Jan 15 to March 15.
We have seen his corn pile, and I have even seen his corn pile from space via Satellite Imagery and the deer paths on the land to the pile. We were invited to join but declined.
The Missouri MDC says on their website currently, they will provide ''limited amount'' of corn to bait deer. My next door neighbor, sits on his porch, about 100 yards from the property line and the bait is about 100 yards away. This is incredible to me, that the Missouri Department of Conversation is actually providing corn when all the evidence suggests from other papers, that bait piles of corn increase the spread of CWD. And thuse, there are many states which have state wide bans on baiting deer for this very reason. Incredible. My neighbor said he was going to ''shoot every deer he sees'' and has been on his deck shooting the deer. I lost count, but to date, only 1/21 I have counted 7 dead deer blown to bits 100 yards from my horse where I ride. That isn't the point however, The deer come and eat with their saliva, piss and poo. Then BOOM! Blood from deer one is spattered all over the corn pile. That evening, rodents, coons, and armadillos come and eat the corn and piss and poo and deposit their saliva on it. The next day, another deer is on the corn pile. BOOOOM! Deer number 2 blood is spattered all over the grain and ground. And so it goes on, another BOOM GOES OFF. So at the end of the week, The blood is spattered over the corn pile by X number of deer. Have the geniouses at the MDC ever factor the blood being ingested, along with piss poo and saliva by other deer a key factor in spreading CWD? Like Mad Cow Disease, where bovines eat bone meal of dead cows in their grains, creating all kinds of protein prions? Never mind the fact, that we won't have any meat in the freezer next fall, which I am quite vexed over. The neighbor will continue to kill every deer he can, until March 15 passes. What do you think? And I am convinced now that he has been baiting for years, since I have seen the corn pile from space.
We have seen his corn pile, and I have even seen his corn pile from space via Satellite Imagery and the deer paths on the land to the pile. We were invited to join but declined.
The Missouri MDC says on their website currently, they will provide ''limited amount'' of corn to bait deer. My next door neighbor, sits on his porch, about 100 yards from the property line and the bait is about 100 yards away. This is incredible to me, that the Missouri Department of Conversation is actually providing corn when all the evidence suggests from other papers, that bait piles of corn increase the spread of CWD. And thuse, there are many states which have state wide bans on baiting deer for this very reason. Incredible. My neighbor said he was going to ''shoot every deer he sees'' and has been on his deck shooting the deer. I lost count, but to date, only 1/21 I have counted 7 dead deer blown to bits 100 yards from my horse where I ride. That isn't the point however, The deer come and eat with their saliva, piss and poo. Then BOOM! Blood from deer one is spattered all over the corn pile. That evening, rodents, coons, and armadillos come and eat the corn and piss and poo and deposit their saliva on it. The next day, another deer is on the corn pile. BOOOOM! Deer number 2 blood is spattered all over the grain and ground. And so it goes on, another BOOM GOES OFF. So at the end of the week, The blood is spattered over the corn pile by X number of deer. Have the geniouses at the MDC ever factor the blood being ingested, along with piss poo and saliva by other deer a key factor in spreading CWD? Like Mad Cow Disease, where bovines eat bone meal of dead cows in their grains, creating all kinds of protein prions? Never mind the fact, that we won't have any meat in the freezer next fall, which I am quite vexed over. The neighbor will continue to kill every deer he can, until March 15 passes. What do you think? And I am convinced now that he has been baiting for years, since I have seen the corn pile from space.