Deer Keds

[Tony Pic]

A friend shot a Axis Doe on my place Monday morning in Harper and it had tick like critters crawling all over it. No blood bags or sacks, but little crab like bugs that were all over the Axis' belly. I am very familiar with Ticks. But I am being told these are Deer Keds. Deer was healthy and pregnant. I shot an Axis buck in Kerrville a few days earlier and my Buck did not have these critters all over it.
What say you?
KIMG0244 by Tony Pic, on Flickr
KIMG0245 by Tony Pic, on Flickr

[AntlerCollector]

Did they have wings?

Deer Keds carry the Lyme disease just like ticks do

[Tony Pic]

No wings, they looked like ticks that have not latched on yet.

[Crazy Horse]

No wings, they looked like ticks that have not latched on yet.

then you have plenty of time to open a thread & start your GoFundMe page!

[Quackerbox]

then you have plenty of time to open a thread & start your GoFundMe page!

[SaltwaterSlick]

OMG I did the same thing!!

[AntlerCollector]

Awesomeness

[Texas Tracker]

Ticks Fleas and now Keds just another bug to craw on you when cleaning your game. What's next?

[careybirdwell]

I guess I missed the GoFundMe reference or post

[Jspradley]

welp....i'm done deer hunting

[rferg84]

Did they have wings?

Deer Keds carry the Lyme disease just like ticks do

No wings, they looked like ticks that have not latched on yet.

Keds lose their wings when they find their host.

http://entomology.ifas.ufl.edu/creatures/livestock/deer_ked.htm

[Landrover]

I guess I missed the GoFundMe reference or post

Same here...…...who has the link???

[BlackHogDown]

then you have plenty of time to open a thread & start your GoFundMe page!

LOL

[bloodstick]

Same here...…...who has the link???

I think it was deleted.

Long story short, somebody claimed a friend or family member (don't remember which) to have lyme disease, got lots of support an/or money and turned out to be a scam.

[Fooser]

Never seen that before where are you hunting?