Big Game Hunting > Elk Hunting
Hoof Rot
kodiak06:
--- Quote from: Dirtnap on June 07, 2025, 02:55:30 PM ---Went out this morning, came across two different herds of elk and every single one of them was limping badly. It’s so sad to see. Has WDFW been looking into this issue? Is there any for sure cause? I’ve always heard pesticides and fertilizers were suspected causes.
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People blame the timber companies but, it's not that or hoof rot would be all over NW Oregon as well. The same chemicals are used here on timber land. It's a bacterial infection similar to cattle from what I've read. The cows here on the farm walk through a specific foot bath to help prevent it in the herd but on occasion one gets and treatment is pretty simple.
Magnum_Willys:
Buddy shot at a Cow elk in the snow and we ended up tracking the bloody tracks for a couple miles until we caught up with it laying down. He had missed it was just hoofrot on the foot - had elf hoof . Sad.
TitusFord:
--- Quote from: kodiak06 on June 08, 2025, 07:32:17 AM ---
--- Quote from: Dirtnap on June 07, 2025, 02:55:30 PM ---Went out this morning, came across two different herds of elk and every single one of them was limping badly. It’s so sad to see. Has WDFW been looking into this issue? Is there any for sure cause? I’ve always heard pesticides and fertilizers were suspected causes.
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People blame the timber companies but, it's not that or hoof rot would be all over NW Oregon as well. The same chemicals are used here on timber land. It's a bacterial infection similar to cattle from what I've read. The cows here on the farm walk through a specific foot bath to help prevent it in the herd but on occasion one gets and treatment is pretty simple.
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Somebody gets it. They use the same chemicals in multiple states. And it's herbicides not pesticides like the OP mentioned. Hoof rot is a bacteria not a chemical.
Bacteria thrives in wet soils like elk tend to spend their time in, when one elk walks through that mud with hoof rot it leaves bacteria for the elk behind it to pick up.
Dirtnap:
Why don’t deer get it?
Fishmaker57:
And why didn’t exist prior to the early 90’s?
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