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  • Meat Processor Deer/Venison Processing Recommendations to Minimize the Spread of Chronic Wasting Disease

    Published on September 20, 2022
    Wear rubber or latex gloves when accepting and handling deer and venison. Change gloves between different animals/carcasses.

  • Meat Processor Deer/Venison Intake Recommendations to Minimize the Spread of Chronic Wasting Disease

    Published on September 20, 2022
    Wear rubber or latex gloves when accepting and handling deer.

  • Employing collaboration and innovation to develop CWD education and outreach

    Published on September 29, 2021
    Wildlife management is always based in science. Oftentimes, there is a disconnect between those who shape wildlife management policy and the public.

  • Composting Deactivation of CWD Prions

    Published on September 17, 2021
    Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), which is a Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE) disease, is an infectious disease of the neurological system that affects cervids, or animals such as deer, elk, and moose.

  • CWD show and tell: gauging hunters’ willingness to adopt management practices

    Published on September 17, 2021
    Chronic wasting disease (CWD) continues to be a critical challenge for wildlife health and management. It has been detected in captive or wild cervids in 26 states, four Canadian provinces and in Finland, Norway, South Korea and Sweden.

  • Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD): Field Animal-Side Testing and Improving Laboratory Diagnostic Sensitivity

    Published on September 17, 2021
    Developing an inexpensive, easy to use, and accurate ‘animal side’ test for hunters to use to identify animals who are potentially infected with CWD would be a significant advancement in the fight against CWD.

  • Influence of Deer Harvest Regulations on Antlerless Harvest, Abundance, and Sex and Age Composition: Implications for Managing Deer in the Face of Chronic Wasting Disease

    Published on September 17, 2021
    Deer hunting is culturally and economically important throughout Michigan and the United States, but it is also a critical tool for wildlife management.

  • A standardized, high-throughput genetic resource to inform whitetailed deer population and disease management

    Published on September 17, 2021
    Prion diseases are neurodegenerative diseases that can affect a multitude of species.

  • Mechanistic understanding on environmental behavior, bioavailability and persistence in chronic wasting disease prions

    Published on September 17, 2021
    Prion diseases are neurodegenerative diseases that can affect a multitude of species.

  • Group size, bioaccumulation, and baiting: quantifying factors affecting disease transmission among deer

    Published on September 17, 2021
    While the pathways for CWD transmission have been well characterized in previous studies, the factors that affect transmission and how those factors may interact are not fully understood.

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Meeting Deer's Nutritional Needs Through Food Plots

Segment 1- Field dressing your deer

Segment 2- Cleaning the carcass

Segment 3- Preparing to butcher venison at home

Segment 4- Skinning your deer

Segment 5- Venison loin processing

Segment 6- Processing shoulder cuts of venison at home

Segment 7- Processing the Round, Ham, and Leg of venison at home

Segment 8- Packaging your venison

Segment 9- Grinding Venison

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