Deer Birth Control

[BigRack]

In an Associated Press article about the month-long effort that took place this March, the mayor said eight does were tranquilized, tagged and injected with the birth control drug. The goal had been to inject up to 50 female deer. The mayor said they will give it another go next year, hoping for better results.

The project is the first birth-control study of a free-roaming deer population in an open, suburban area in the U.S.

http://www.archerywire.com/features/228828

 

[Muskeez]

I'm surprised Planned Parenthood isn't involved! They are good at this kind of nonsense. Besides the fact that it is a huge expense and not that effective, the biggest problem that I have is that it seems to me that they aren't preventing pregnancies, but possibly aborting them. If they are doing this in March those adult does would surely be already pregnant and a month or 2 from delivering fawns. So do the fawns they are carrying get aborted? And which flower garden would Mrs. Howell like that product left in? Or is this drug supposed to not effect the unborn fawn but prevent next falls future pregnancy? Sounds ridiculous. If I wanted to drug deer for this purpose I would think September/October would make more sense before the November rut.

 

[Nameless Range]

Maybe I'm the only one, but I think deer in the suburbs are cool, and the benefits outweigh the negatives when it comes to their conflicts with cars and people. Drive carefully, and don't pet the wildlife.

The concept of giving deer birth control sounds expensive, and given this fact from the article - really stupid.

The contraceptive works 80 percent of the time, but a year later there is an even greater chance the doe will become pregnant if the costly process is not repeated.

In Helena they have killed nearly 1000 deer within the city limits since 2004. Many of them with genetics worth sharing. When you consider that Mule Deer bucks will travel miles during the rut to breed a doe, and the City limits of Helena butt up to National Forest on its southern boundary, I would argue that such actions effect deer populations well outside of the city limits.

Would it be possible for people to accept the risks of urban deer populations, and appreciate the character added to their hometowns by their existence within them?

 

[genesis273]

We have an urban archery season here after the regular 4 month season. It works much better, and whole lot cheaper!

Muskeez, that would sound like a possibility about the nearly dropped fawns becoming aborted. Birth control deer by tranquilized, tagged and injected with the birth control drug makes as much sense to me as if they tranquilized, tagged, and rolled a condom on all bucks caught.

 

[katqanna]

GonaCon is the same immunocontraceptive APHIS has been experimenting on the bison here, north of the Yellowstone National Park and have used on some elk in WY. It is not USDA food safe, which means you cant hunt and eat an animal injected with it. It is registered as a pesticide and non food use. When they did studies on bison, they had to make sure that no endangered species or threatened species could predate on any of the bison injected. Sorry I dont have the page set up with all this BS and the academic papers yet, just these documents. I have been researching GonaCon, ZonaCon and DiazaCon for nearly 2 years now.

USDA considers wildlife fertility a disease, calling GonaCon a vaccine they need to be "vaccinated" with. They look at wildlife as pests that have to be exterminated and if that is not socially acceptable they sterilize so that it is quieter, off the media radar.

EPA GonaCon registration and warnings.

GonaCon Pesticide USDA

Finding of No Significant Impact for the Proposed Study

 

[duckhunt]

Open an archery season. Problem solved.

 

[noharleyyet]

Witty article....GonaCon<>gonads-not

 

[ShootsManyBullets]

What? No condoms?

 

[roadhunter]

Open an archery season. Problem solved.

+1. Clean up the deer, feed the hungry, and give bow hunters more opportunity. Sounds like everybody wins.

 

[ShootsManyBullets]

+1. Clean up the deer, feed the hungry, and give bow hunters more opportunity. Sounds like everybody wins.

everyone except the Libs