DATCP Quarantines Iowa County Deer Breeding Farm After Connection to CWD Investigation
November 16, 2017
Confirmation of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in two white-tailed deer shot on a hunting ranch in Waupaca County has led to another farm in Iowa County being quarantined, Wisconsin State Veterinarian Dr. Paul McGraw has announced. The National Veterinary Services Laboratory in Ames, Iowa, confirmed the test results recently.
The bucks, both four years old, were killed on the 84-acre hunting ranch in Waupaca, but originated from a 15-acre breeding farm in Mineral Point, Wisconsin, that contains 110 white-tailed deer, according to the owner’s most recent registration records. Both deer...
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