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CARING FOR FAWNS IN THE SPRING More than a Labor of Love

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7 C’S WHITETAILS –SPECIALIZING IN WIDE, TYPICAL DEER

acre sprawl including 56 acres of breeding pens, is perhaps as close to being in the actual wild for the deer as you can get.

Here, they roam freely through native pristine habitat, drink from the Nueces River and find plenty of natural refuge and forage. Most, if not all the deer, can be traced back to Big Boy, the anchor breeding buck born in 2003 (with very favorable GEBV’s) who lived to be 12 and helped put the ranch on the map. Noted for his excessively wide frame, Big Boy’s daughters today are wellknown power does and reliable

producers, responsible for carrying on his legacy. However, today all eyes are also turned to their latest breeding buck, Shape Shifter, whose pedigree includes Little General, Witch Doctor, Hardcore and Kman’s Womb.

Seeing each deer grow and flourish is one of Sosa’s favorite things. “I don’t judge yearlings,” he said. I wait until they’re two or three and see what we’ve got. We take good care of them and patiently wait.” Doing so has apparently paid off and with it, the creation of ‘benchmarks’ in the industry. “Our goal is width, long tines and a clean typical look,” Sosa said. “Our 2024 babies, 70 fawns, are all “SS”.

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So, while we are also focused on resistance, width is the hardest thing to maintain or breed back into a herd. We are successfully doing both.” Additionally helping to produce the type of deer found at 7 C’s is Voo Doo’s Magic, who, in Sosa’s opinion, is just about the best deer there could possibly be. “He has both the frame and the look the industry wants and most importantly he passes those genes down better than any deer I’ve seen in my career,” Sosa emphasized. And although 7 C’s Whitetails does not sell many deer, they do sell a substantial amount of semen straws and provide several private hunts each year.

Sosa is very grateful to be part of a ranch who remains dedicated to staying on the cutting edge of the industry. “It’s hard to find a job where you can be with your family every day,” he explained. “My wife Kristen and our three girls Addison, 13, Kylee, 10, and

Brynley, 7, relish every moment here and the fact we have made this our home.” When Sosa isn’t mending fences, supervising 70 acres of (DMP) Deer Management Pens, checking water lines, planning breeding strategies

are so fortunate to be part of the deer industry and to do things that we love so much,” he said.

“Everyone involved at the ranch also looks forward to continuing to improve and further nurture our relationship with the Texas

Animal Health Commission, as the

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By: Gail Veley

Shock Effect has been taken over by Kathy and Travis Broadway, who are ready to fill orders and help deer farmers maximize the antler growth potential and body condition of their deer, among other things. Travis and Kathy, who also own and operate Winter Quarters Wildlife Ranch in Ethel, Missouri, are excited about the future of their company.

Shock Effect, a company originally founded close to 17 years ago, sells probiotic products formulated to help a deer, in all stages of life, maximize their potential. Featured products include Whitetail Conditioner, Buck Chill (to contribute to helping bucks stay calmer during the rut) Antler Maximizer (to aid in the growth of bigger, stronger and more impressive antlers) and Sea-Cal Calcium (to help maintain a sufficient level of calcium for a stronger skeletal structure while also preventing depletion of the skeletal structure.)

What originally began as a company started by Steve and Faye Thayer that sold only an antler enhancing product to local Missouri deer farmers, grew into a company that today sells a vast array of products along with a customer base that spreads from Mexico all the way to Canada.

“Our customers appreciate the time and dedication it took to develop these products. Three things can determine the outcome of the health and vitality of your deer,” Travis explained. “Genetics, nutrition and stress. Shock Effect

products allow your deer to thrive and be the best they can possibly be in any and all circumstances.”

While other companies sell deer supplements “we know people depend on our products and want to continue buying them,” Kathy said. “When our previous co-owner decided to move onto something else, there was no question about stepping in to keep Shock Effect products available, because we have used them at our Missouri ranch for more than 11 years with great results.”

Every Shock Effect product is produced using no hormones, steroids or drugs and is also very specific to a deer’s nutritional needs and their very sensitive immune system. Every product sold today spent several years in a testing stage within a controlled herd, before ever being available to the public. “We know our customers believe in our products and that their herds respond favorably to them,” Travis said. “Our products were some of the first to really enhance antler growth. We have deer farmers telling us their two-year-olds look like three-year-olds.”

Through the years, Travis and Kathy have enjoyed seeing firsthand the favorable results and the extent to which their own herds of elk, red stag and whitetail thrive under Shock Effect products.

To order products or to apply for a sales position, please call Kathy at 318-446-2231, or send her an email at kbb720@gmail.com.

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By: Gail Veley • Sponsored by the Kansas Alternative Livestock Association

Early, non-symptomatic detection of CWD in a whitetail herd could become as simple as drawing blood, thanks to a revolutionary diagnostic test currently being developed by Dream Genomics. Based out of Northbrook Illinois, Dream Genomics is a newly developed visionary biotech firm started in 2023, whose energy and efforts are fully invested in the “Discovery Phase” of developing a reliable, ultimately fool-proof and scientifically recognized CWD detection blood test. Leading the charge for Dream Genomics is Dr. Gary Pusateri, CEO and Founder, Michael Falduto, Chief Technology Officer and Founder as well as Dr. Scott Magnuson, Chief Scientific Officer and Founder.

Along with developing a reliable test, are the challenges of buying equipment to continue the research along with obtaining adequate

numbers of positive CWD samples. Dream Genomics is actively searching for sponsors and donors in the form of corporations, deer associations and private individuals to continue on this quest.

NADeFA and The Cervid Livestock Foundation (CLF) have donated substantial seed money to Dream Genomics, in an effort to keep the research ball rolling and to help purchase testing plates or “chips” as they are commonly called.

Chips, an array that looks at all the genes in a deer’s genome and measures the gene expression via profiling using RNA, fully measures a deer’s response which creates a “bio-profile” for early detection. This technology could perhaps also be used to “stage” the disease in the fact that it will be specifically used at the front end of detection, and not the back end.

Unlike old traditional testing methods which examine CWD prions in already infected organs, this new test is being designed to preemptively find CWD in a singularly fashion, before symptoms develop and before others in a herd are also affected. “Their progress is amazing,” said NADeFA President Shawn Schafer. “This could completely change everything in the industry as we know it right now. Gone may be the days of five-year quarantines or repeatedly extracted rectal samples.”

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CARING FOR FAWNS IN THE SPRING

MORE THAN A LABOR OF LOVE

By: Gail Veley • Sponsored by The Pennsylvania Deer Farmers Association

Early on in the start of each new year, Amy Stefanowicz takes inventory of everything she’ll need for the upcoming spring. Fawning season and the expectation of 54 fawns might be a few months away, but then again, it’s as though it’s right around the corner. Bottles, nipples. Check. Fawn paste, probiotics, goat’s milk, puppy training pads, cleaning supplies. Check, check, check. Known for her expertise in successfully raising calm and well-acclimated deer, Amy and her husband Jason of Awesome Whitetails in Middlebury, Pennsylvania may have the science of raising fawns perfected as this year marks their fifth season. In addition to meticulously managing a fawn’s health and immune system, Amy believes acclimating them to outside stimulus is just as important. Given that deer generally become comfortable with specific individuals, she plays a radio 24/7 inside the barn to get them used to strange noises and voices. “I’ve found this really helps them to not overreact if someone new comes around,” Amy said.

However, the most pressing initial issue is a fawn’s intake of colostrum within 12 hours of birth. Good, diligent mamas and babies that latch on pave the way for the next steps Amy takes. After each doe fawn (and struggling buck fawn) intakes sufficient colostrum, they are pulled and moved into a fawn facility where they spend up to three weeks isolated inside a 2 x 3 feet durable polymer box complete with drainable rubber (piglet) flooring, allowing urine and droppings to fall into a black tray beneath the flooring, covered by a puppy pad. Unlike wood that may allow germs to soak in and remain active and risky, Amy knows plastic does not do that and is much easier to clean. This can ensure a healthier fawn, one that will be introduced to other healthy fawns.

Sometimes fawns may need more intensive care and if so, may spend time in a bedroom or dog crate inside the house, until they are strong and healthy enough to be in the official fawn barn. Building up their strength and immunities also involves the careful administration of vaccines, so as to not puncture their fragile skin. Next, ear tags are attached and microchips inserted. Inside each 2 x 3 fawn box Amy also places a small bowl of natural dirt to softly and safely introduce them to their eventual life outside in the deer pens, which usually occurs after week three. “Unless you have a jumper,” Amy, 46, explained. “They might need to go outside sooner.”

Amy’s bottle-feeding regimen includes a combination of goat’s milk and red cap milk, given at 6 a.m., 2 p.m. and 9 p.m. for four weeks, followed by two feedings from week five until week nine, when henceforth bottles are offered merely once a day. After 13 weeks, fawns fully transition to solid food and water. Through this micro-management system, Amy has gained a reputation as being somewhat of an expert on the process of raising healthy, calm and well-acclimated deer. Her advice has even been sought out by numerous others in the industry.

“Jason and I just firmly believe in our process,” Amy said. “We feel it’s worth it in the long run and have found our deer are more ready to face whatever may come as they grow into healthy mature adults.”

MELANISTIC DEER

SHOWING A PRESENCE ON DEER FARMS

By: Gail Veley • Sponsored by the Pennsylvania Deer Farmers Association

It was a beautiful cool May morning this past spring, when Adam Lindsey casually walked past the pen of a doe who had just given birth at his farm Size Matters Whitetail, in Bronson, Michigan. He glanced over and immediately stopped to refocus on the new fawns, still wet, pure black and glistening, curled up on the ground. Holding his breath, he couldn’t stop staring. Literally blown away that their breeding efforts had come to fruition, he then ran to his wife Ashley to announce the great news. They now had two melanistic fawns, one buck and one doe.

“We were proactively trying and that was our hope and dream to have melanistic fawns,” Lindsey said. “But we’d never had one born before then.” Melanistic deer, first discovered and recorded in 1929, are the rarest known form of whitetail deer. Their morphologically dark bodies contain a high deposition of the dark pigment known as melanin, caused by specialized cells called melanocytes responsible for producing the darker pigmentation. A rare genetic recessive gene mutation can produce a melanistic deer, with a believed average of

a one in every 10,000 chance. In addition to melanistic whitetails, melanistic fallow deer and mule deer have been spotted in the wild. And unlike albino deer, whose life spans tend to be shorter, melanism is not believed to hinder a deer’s lifespan, nor do melanistic deer appear to be more susceptible to typical whitetail ailments.

Melanistic whitetail deer have been found in states such as Mississippi, Michigan, Virginia, Texas, South Carolina and Pennsylvania. In a quest to add to their uniqueness, Mick

and Mike Goodman of Goodman’s Whitetail Haven in New Stanton, Pennsylvania, are creating their own melanistic piebald deer herd. “I always loved piebald,” Mick said. “About 10 to 12 years I really started pushing them and wanted to breed the melanistic deer into them. After a lot of effort, we now have melanistic piebalds.”

The Goodman’s and Lindsey credit Bob Rosebrock of Rosebrock Whitetails in Lott, Texas for allowing them to follow their dream.

Goodman subsequently produced his breeding buck “Black Velvet,”

their very first melanistic piebald. While melanistic deer can be every bit as hardy and substantial in terms of frame as their brown and white pelage counterparts, piebalds can be smaller bodied. Goodman’s future breeding plans include breeding “Outstanding,” one of the top piebalds in the country right now, whose 317” and 7 x 7 typical main frame includes a little extra, in order to continue producing piebalds who are every bit as large and hearty as brown whitetails.

“Looking ahead, I feel the market should be really good for melanistic deer,” Lindsey said. “I have had a lot of interest in people wanting to buy those babies. Both are “SS” with negative GEBV values. That will be a plus side for the industry. But you can’t necessarily get more melanistic deer just from breeding them to those that are melanistic. As we predictably breed, we can increase those chances over time. At our farm, the goal in to breed for 75 percent brown deer and 25 percent melanistic.”

Goodman feels that while the market for melanistic deer has yet to be officially established, it looks very promising. “Never give up on your dreams,” he said. “Although it may be more difficult to produce melanistic deer, we went after what we wanted and are very happy with the results. We look forward to more success.”

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By: Gail Veley • Sponsored by the Whitetail Deer Farmers of Ohio

he Whitetail Deer Farmer’s Association of Ohio (WDFO) is well-known for two things, putting on a memorable annual event and choosing a worthy organization each year to receive a donation from event proceeds. In 2024, the ODFA donated $20,400 to Christian Aid Ministries (CAM), a national volunteer search and rescue organization with a team based out of Millersburg, Ohio. “It’s extremely helpful to us to receive this donation,” said Ohio CAM Search and Rescue (SAR) Coordinator Marcus Miller. “We don’t receive grants and so we rely heavily on donations from churches, individuals and a bit from businesses to keep us going.”

Levi Miller, Executive Director for the WDFO, recommended CAM to receive a donation after a northeast Ohio family recently lost a loved one due to drowning. After everyone else had essentially given up, CAM stepped in and found them, Levi said. CAM’s search and rescue organization has been helping families reunite or recover loved ones since 2016. There mission isn’t only to save individuals who have been physically lost, but to assist them spiritually as well.

The Ohio CAM SAR team, comprised of 30 members many of whom are Amish and Mennonite, were chosen based on their faith and passion to help others. “We don’t take just anyone off the street who’s looking for an adrenaline rush,” said Marcus Miller, who also teaches the CAM Search and Rescue class. “Our volunteers are put through many

rigorous hours of training and make a huge commitment to be available when we need them.” Training courses include, for example, land navigation, boat operation, radio communications, crime scene preservation, wilderness first aid, rope and knot tying and fire starting. Current Ohio CAM SAR team members range in age from 19 to 56. “We wouldn’t turn anyone down who might be older,” Miller shared. “There’s always something we can find for them to do.”

Although while every SAR team member is hopeful for a successful outcome, it doesn’t always turn out that way. “I think we can all relate to how terrifying it is when a child goes missing,” Miller said. “We’ve found the bodies of children who’ve drowned. Consoling the parents is the toughest part and something we make a point of doing. We also seek to bring those we help closer to a spiritual belief as part of their healing.”

Perhaps one of Miller’s favorite rescue stories involved a young man who had run away from home. “We had no location on him, and we were concerned he may have been picked up by someone,” he said. “But we found him sleeping in the woods, got him back to camp and warmed up and counseled him on ways to cope better with life. We really enjoyed our time with him.”

When rescue situations appear to be risky or dangerous, law enforcement officers typically work alongside CAM, since CAM team members do not carry firearms. CAM teams are also located in Arkansas, Illinois, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Virginia, Minnesota, Mississippi, Michigan, Indiana and Pennsylvania. Depending on the time of year, teams could receive up to four calls per week asking for help. “Sometimes a whole month goes by and nothing,” Miller said. “Spring through mid-fall are the busiest times. Sometimes calls come in at very inconvenient times like Christmas Day or right in the middle of a family gathering. But this is what we signed up for. This is what we committed to, and we are more than glad to help anyone who needs us.”

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Send To: LDAF Fax or Email: (225) 237-5555 5825 Florida Blvd, Suite 4000 VetReports@ldaf.state.la.us Baton Rouge, LA 70806

AHS-20-57 (R. 2/17)

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