Winston Hoof Rot

[billythekidrock]

This year I noticed a whole lot more hoof rot in the Winston unit than in the past few years combined. While some cases were mild, some were downright disturbing.

We saw a herd of 20 or so with at least 3 limping cows near the 550.

We watched a cow that was reluctant to walk and you could clearly see her hipbones and spine on the 516.

This nasty looking hoof belonged to a bull killed (and left to rot) during an antlerless hunt on the 500.


Near the 560.



This set of tracks was off the 2420.



Near the 4500.
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[mrmoskillz]

Sad!  You did that guy a favore by taking him.  I hope someone figures this out.

[Curly]

Sad!  You did that guy a favore by taking him.  I hope someone figures this out.

I don't think billythekidrock shot that bull.........

Sounds like the bull was poached by someone.

[Jonathan_S]

Sad!  You did that guy a favore by taking him.  I hope someone figures this out.

I don't think billythekidrock shot that bull.........

Sounds like the bull was poached by someone.

  he said it was 'left to rot'.

Hopefully all those thousand pound elk survive the hoof rot.

[mrmoskillz]

Opps I missed the bottom section all together.  Double sad poached elk and hoof rot I sure hope something can be done.

[raydog]

WDFW and others is doing studies and it could be a bacteria infection or a genetic disorder. RMEF is helping fund the WDFW. When they will figure it out and what needs to be done i don't know. I got my info from the Bugle magazine

[Michelle_Nelson]

Sad!  You did that guy a favore by taking him.  I hope someone figures this out.

I don't think billythekidrock shot that bull.........

Sounds like the bull was poached by someone.

BTKR didn't kill it.  They found it.

Maybe someone made the choice to just end the bulls suffering?  Poaching or a Moral Choice?  Bull would have probably died slow with gaingreen.

[Screaminreelz]

out of 2 of the rag horn bulls we got on the north end of winston up at the end of the 1900 line 1 of them had hoof rot but no where near these. pretty sad

[wackum]

Its a terrible thing to see, every group of elk I saw this season had hoof rought. Hopefully we can figure out a fix for this before it gets any worse.

[FSTaxidermy]

Very sad, horrible way for them to die    Few years back I was told they figured 80% of the Winlock herd would be lost.  Good to hear that RMEF is getting something done, it appears that our state is more focused on wolves then on helping our SW elk herds.   

[MeatDown]

Ya, we had a cow tag, and took a cow that wasn't limping but once she was down, we notice a slight hoof rot, letting WDFW know.

I know this might make a lot of people unhappy, but.. years ago before all these things started afflicting our animals (Hair loss deer, Hoof rot, etc), I told a friend that works for Weyer. Co... that it CAN'T be good for the animals that eat "leafy" foods for them to be dumping ton's of "agent orange" like products on all those clear cuts.. because the animals don't know that they shouldn't eat that shiat..!

And what do you know now years later, we are having all kinds of these things pop up... and of course it "Can't" be that... but several of my family and friends have paid the price for having "defoliant" dumped on them... and they didn't eat it...!

So, if it can defoliant can kill and cancer us.. what do you think it can do to animals that are eating it?

Just wondering

[Tman]

1 of the 2 cows we took in the winston this year had hoof rot.

[buckhorn2]

The bull I got in the winston had a bleeding hoof we also saw a herd of a dozen elk that over half were limping.

[scottfrick]

The wife and i went over for opening day of rifle elk. The only elk we saw was a small herd of cows down low and one was limping very bad. At the the time i thought maybe she was poorly shot. But thinking i bet she had hoof rot!!!!

[Dan-o]

There's a small article in this month's BUGLE magazine about the hoof rot in SW Washington.


Sounds terrible.