Dying Blackbuck

[jshouse]

Thats no good

[ACCURACYINC]

Is it that they had not acclimated to the colder weather yet? Reason for the question is they are everywhere in the hill country and we've had way worse cold snaps than this and I hadn't ever heard of any die offs...

My thoughts too.... it would be 10 degrees and they'd be boinging around like any other day when I hunted out there.

[KevinAndy]

A guy I work with was at a ranch near Beeville a couple weeks ago and they had lost several black buck. The loan survivor was just walking around in circles. Either the ranch manager or owner told him it had something to do with snails..... No idea if there is any truth to it, but you guys aren't too far from each other.

[Hunter Dan]

Dang now I feel like I need to go check on mine...have not had issue with the cold in the past though.

[adam_p]

Blackbuck are not cervids so it isn't CWD.

[Target-panic]

Blackbuck don't tolerate the cold very well. Temps where you are?

Death was prior to the cold front.


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[Target-panic]

Is it that they had not acclimated to the colder weather yet? Reason for the question is they are everywhere in the hill country and we've had way worse cold snaps than this and I hadn't ever heard of any die offs...

Established herd, these two separated themselves and died.


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[RickH78]

That is odd. Hope you get some awners!

[Chew]

Established herd, these two separated themselves and died.


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Any puncture wounds on them? I watched a big buck try to kill a couple doe one time. Chased them and gored them for 15 minutes. His pimp hand was strong.

[NotJose]

Any puncture wounds on them? I watched a big buck try to kill a couple doe one time. Chased them and gored them for 15 minutes. His pimp hand was strong.

Gator don’t take no s...!!


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[Target-panic]

Dying Blackbuck

Any puncture wounds on them? I watched a big buck try to kill a couple doe one time. Chased them and gored them for 15 minutes. His pimp hand was strong.

no bleeding was witnessed or wounds noticed.


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[SB09]

A guy I work with was at a ranch near Beeville a couple weeks ago and they had lost several black buck. The loan survivor was just walking around in circles. Either the ranch manager or owner told him it had something to do with snails..... No idea if there is any truth to it, but you guys aren't too far from each other.

Is that maybe something like EHD then? I don't know if BB get that. But the circling thing seems like a symptoms of EHD.

[Farmdog]

I lost 5 BB doe too, Im about done, not weather related down here either, mine died over 3 or 4 months

[Target-panic]

Is that maybe something like EHD then? I don't know if BB get that. But the circling thing seems like a symptoms of EHD.

We are thinking it is a digestive parasite or poisoning by some type of vegetation. We burned the corpses. If any others in the herd die, we may look into autopsy.


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[Target-panic]

I lost 5 BB doe too, Im about done, not weather related down here either, mine died over 3 or 4 months

Did you find them dead or dying?


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