EHD Prevention

[Chase This!]

When I was managing deer pens we lost about 20 deer to ehd. They would be walking around like normal one day and dead the next.
Ive also found dead deer in the wild in or near water tanks in late summer and always suspect ehd. I think ehd kills way more deer in Texas than people realize.
Anything you can do to reduce the midges that hang around water sources will help but that’s about all you can do.

Thanks. This is what I am concluding. Spraying the water to kill midges. Still trying to figure out which pesticide is best choice.

[kd350]

https://youtu.be/gD8Jo297Pjc?si=naRQ6NmehXafEqAq

[Chase This!]

Thanks. Seems a real, commercial fogger will be a good investment.

[Arrowsmith]

Thanks. This is what I am concluding. Spraying the water to kill midges. Still trying to figure out which pesticide is best choice.

Guys here in Iowa are using Malathion around ponds and manmade water structures.

[unclefish]

A pump or aerator to keep the water moving. Midges don't like moving water. Wave action is a good thing.

[Chase This!]

A pump or aerator to keep the water moving. Midges don't like moving water. Wave action is a good thing.

Thanks. I have both in our lakes, but we have a creek in the middle of the ranch that never really flows. Just holds water. I’m thinking I need to spray it and fog it.

[RMW]

Oh boy do we.

You can throw granular coppper sulfate into water and it will kill midges and it won’t hurt the deer, I put it in my deer water troughs and cow troughs, you can buy it in liquid form also

[RMW]

Here ya go and very easy

[Chase This!]

Gracias!!! Appreciate all the tips, guys. Hopefully this helps us all. EHD sucks.

[geezer56]

EHD is a weird disease. It is vectored, meaning that one deer can't catch it from another deer. The midge has to bite an infected deer, then pass it on by biting a healthy deer. I've opened up a couple of deer that died from it, their insides are just a bloody soup. They die in water trying to cool off because they are running an extreme temperature. Older deer are most likely to die from it, but younger ones do have a lot of mortality from it. If a deer recovers, it seems to be immune from that point on. Some research seems to indicate that the deers offspring will be resistant as well, but it's not a proven fact. It's bad news in any case.

[Big Lee]

I've never heard of "Midges" in my life. I'm starting to think someone is making up names now. 😆

[stinkbelly]

I've never heard of "Midges" in my life. I'm starting to think someone is making up names now. 😆

I thought they were only in fly fishing.

[wytex]

EHD only effects whitetail. And it’s devastating.

EHD can and does affect mule deer, elk and pronghorn antelope too.

[Stins]

We got hit hard this part year in northern Nebraska. We've been talking about this as well, can we put something on the pond edges to kill the midges or something.

[gekko man]

We were on a ranch near San Angelo in the early 00s and I know the ranch was hit with EHD.

We reported it to the local Game Warden and the ranch owner.

We were told that it was not an issue.

We found multiple mature bucks in the creek and in the pasture in late August and early September.

The buck population suffered and we did not renew our lease.

I am sure it was a next man up scenario in regards to the next group leasing the property.

I am for ever vigilant of EHD because I know what it can do to a deer herd and the mature bucks population.

Good luck protecting your herd!