Hair Loss Right?

[Turner89]

I was hoping she was just aggresively shedding, but i don't think so.

[Turner89]

Whoops forgot the evidence

[duckmen1]

Thats worse than any ive seen

[Cap.Silver]

Yep,looks like hair loss syndrome -pretty bad.......

[Turner89]

I've had cameras out in this area since 2004, and this is the first time I've had a deer with this. I've never seen one in the woods before either. Wander how long a deer has once they get it?

[DoubleJ]

We had a yearling around here a couple of weeks ago that looked like that.  She had a mohawk from her head to her tail and no hair anywhere else.  Haven't seen her for a couple of weeks now.

[duckmen1]

About 40 percent of the deer i see this time of year or earlier have it. Later in the year i dont see any with it. More commonly on yearlings

[Turner89]

Is it always terminal, or do they sometimes recover?

[lokidog]

Pretty sure they can survive it as long as it is not too wet and cold and they can get enough quality food to eat.   

[ellensburgpo]

Pretty sure they can survive it as long as it is not too wet and cold and they can get enough quality food to eat.   

 

[Old Man Yager]

I see quite a few deer on the west side with it, mostly patches of hair lost. I've heard that if they make it through the winter they should survive, because thier new coat grows in.

[jackmaster]

have they figured out what causes hair loss, i have heard a number of things from slug slime to mineral loss, i dont have a clue

[Old Man Yager]

Your hair loss, or the Deer hair loss?!!

[runamuk]

About 40 percent of the deer i see this time of year or earlier have it. Later in the year i dont see any with it. More commonly on yearlings

Pretty sure they can survive it as long as it is not too wet and cold and they can get enough quality food to eat.   

we see a herd here in Eburg that the yearlings seem to have this every year but the older ones do not and the herd continues to survive.....oddly its a lowland herd I rarely see it in the ones in the hills.  I saw one group of does and yearlings one year that looked horrible but have not seen it that bad since and by horrible I mean bald to skin and walking skeletons usually they just look to be having a really bad hair day or to have lost a fight with a weed whacker.....

this is all just my personal experience and what I have seen over the last few years living here .....also now that I think about it I also have only seen it on the yakima side of I90 so south maybe??...hmmmm

and I have heard it was caused by a louse brought in on captive deer by exotic livestock owners, or thats how the story gets spun when advocating against captive deer keeping..... lol.....

[Axle]

She will survive just fine. I've seen some of them go nearly completely bald and survive all winter. If they are bald and we got a cold snap from Alaska, then some of them would freeze to death but a mild winter won't kill them. This time of year they are fine and once they get over it, they are more immune to it.