Man I hate reading about this. EHD, Anthrax and the sort is tough to watch. I am a little surprised the hope was for rain and cooler weather in July....anthrax is a spore that comes out of the soil. From all I learned when they talked about cooler weather they meant MUCH cooler like October/November type. The local folks also know it is part of life in the "wild wild west". Nothing you can do about it, you just have to deal with it regardless and with no local folks (land owners for most part) wanting to open a can of words these things are kept low key. Good luck guys!
Do you hunt multiple locations in Sutton county? One of your comments says south of town off 403 and another says 8 miles down 189 off of 277. I am surprised that a ranch that close to down was affected considering the historical outbreak locations never reached that far north west. Could you ranch be experiencing EHD not anthrax ? Was a sample tested positive? I did speak to my land owner on 189 near 277 and so far so good but it is still early in the game.
Do you hunt multiple locations in Sutton county? One of your comments says south of town off 403 and another says 8 miles down 189 off of 277. I am surprised that a ranch that close to down was affected considering the historical outbreak locations never reached that far north west. Could you ranch be experiencing EHD not anthrax ? Was a sample tested positive? I did speak to my land owner on 189 near 277 and so far so good but it is still early in the game.
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I only hunt one place our ranch is off 403 not sure where you’re seeing 8 miles down 189 that must have been someone else’s post. Our land owner found two dead deer today and they have not been tested but the ranch next to us tested positive.
Do you hunt multiple locations in Sutton county? One of your comments says south of town off 403 and another says 8 miles down 189 off of 277. I am surprised that a ranch that close to down was affected considering the historical outbreak locations never reached that far north west. Could you ranch be experiencing EHD not anthrax ? Was a sample tested positive? I did speak to my land owner on 189 near 277 and so far so good but it is still early in the game.
thanks for sharing
Sorry for the mistake, you were asking where Aggieland ranch was and there response was south of town on 403. I was thinking it was BrianG that was on 403.
Anthrax has historically hit the southwest corner of sutton county as well as uvalde, val verde, Edwards, Kinney and Maverick. To be as close to Sonora as 403 is scary. You did not mention if a sample was taken from a fresh kill and tested positive for anthrax.
Sorry for the mistake, you were asking where Aggieland ranch was and there response was south of town on 403. I was thinking it was BrianG that was on 403.
Anthrax has historically hit the southwest corner of sutton county as well as uvalde, val verde, Edwards, Kinney and Maverick. To be as close to Sonora as 403 is scary. You did not mention if a sample was taken from a fresh kill and tested positive for anthrax.
No samples have been taken from our ranch that I am aware of but they were taken on our neighbors ranch and tested positive.
There were supposedly some chances of rain but it was further south in val verde... We actually had some rain earlier in the week but it was southwest val verde.
Are you on the north or south side of 189? Looks like you are approx 7 to 8 miles from JFRITZ who is has been infected. I am only a couple of miles east of your property. I hope the anthrax does not travel east towards your proper but if it does my lease could be next. Any idea when you are going to the lease next for an update? I may try to go weekend of 7/27 and I will provide an update when I return.
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