Does this doe look sick to you?

I recently pulled the cards on my cams and found this real skinny doe! This area has 100's of acres of food(Corn,Soybean,Mast trees,Berries etc.)and water sources everywhere. The county is a known CWD area that is why I am concerned with how she looks. I included a picture of a Turkey for size reference.

 

She looks pretty skinny... could be.

Here's a picture of a doe my buddy shot that tested positive for CWD



She was also super old, 10 or 11 if I remember correctly.

 

It could be CWD kev

 

Yeah I think it might be too or she got really beat down after giving birth. Lol Fitz my doe looks like a champ compared to yours.

 

Wow she only made it to 10 or 11 with CWD. No wonder they want them all dead

 

That last picture is a turkey! I don't see anything wrong with that one at all!

 

Read the first post it was put on here for size comparison!

 

Give her some time, hopefully she was wore down from having fawns, otherwise if you see her during season and she still looks beat then she very well might have it.

 

sorry for my ignorance, but what is CWD?

 

CWD= Chronic Wasting Disease

 

Looks very lean

 

We had a buck at the farm that had wasted down to nothing. Fish and Wildlife told us to take it so it could be tested. Turns out it had an infected tooth that had spread to its jaw and it could not eat.

 

Woah, she likely wont make it through summer. She looks bad!

 

I'll post pic(s) of my CWD positive buck from '09 when I get home tonight mixed with a doe that was shot in the leg the previous season. The buck looked great, while that doe (which eventually died from natural causes or bobcat/coyote) looked like it was starving from that injury. I (unfortunately) hunt CWD counties in both IL and WI so I get every deer havested checked for the disease.

 

looks a little light in the arse but hopefully she'll get some LB's on her soon!

 

Yes, looks sick to me

 

She looks sick to me. You could tell your local DNR and show them the picture see what they say

 

Here is a link to the buck that I got during the '09 season with a gun that tested positive. He had no visual appearances of being sick. Actually, just the opposite he ran all over the place chasing 2 does that morning until I finally was able to find a window thru the brush to take a shot. Never had this buck on trail camera though.

http://forums.bowhunting.com/album.php?albumid=223&pictureid=1193

 

Agreed!