Hair Loss Right?

[kckrawler]

I know...it's WDFW...but they do have a pretty informative write up about it.

http://wdfw.wa.gov/conservation/health/hair_loss/index.html

[raydog]

Is this what my grandpa calls mange? Are they the same thing?

[Jonathan_S]

She's not as scrawny as most mangey deer are.

She might live.   

[jackmaster]

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

oh iknow what causes my hair loss ......its called a wife and 2 kids 

[Turner89]

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.

Cool! They are more imune after surviving it.  Besides the hair loss this one looks to be in pretty good shape.

[fish vacuum]

I would think that if it was gonna kill her, it woulda happened during winter.
I've seen lots of deer with patchy coats when they shed in spring, but that one is way beyond spring shedding.

[Turner89]

I would think that if it was gonna kill her, it woulda happened during winter.
I've seen lots of deer with patchy coats when they shed in spring, but that one is way beyond spring shedding.

Yea, same here. I've seen some in my area that were patcchy during the spring, but this one was kinda shocking, for me anyhow.

[fish vacuum]

Not sure how interested they'd be, but it might be worth forwarding the pics to WDFW.

[winshooter88]

WDFW already knows about it and pretty much where it is happening. It is caused by lice and seems to come on in the winter. The lice on muley and white tails very rarely causes death, however the lice on Columbia blacktails is a different version and does cause mortality. I was just at a meeting where the local biologist was there answering questions and this was one that was asked.

[merlo105]

Most people mistake hair loss for Shedding, The pics above look like it could go either way to be honest.

[Turner89]

If it's shedding, the doe with her is not shedding at near the rate she is.

[winshooter88]

The WDFW bio that talked to us said that the ones like in the first pictures is definitely hair loss, he pointed out that it looks like a mohawk hair cut. Seen a lot of shedding deer and they never looked like they had a mohawk.

[bobcat]

Here are some pictures I got recently, of the same thing. First a fawn with a really bad case of hair loss, and next a perfectly healthy doe with all her hair. Sorry for the crooked looking trees. Something moved my camera after I set it up so it wasn't straight on the tree.