Not sure if this has been posted here from ID.?

[PlateauNDN]

Lice becoming a big problem in Idaho, as if they didn't have a problem with shortage of game from wolves now this.

http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/public/media/viewNewsRelease.cfm?newsID=6206

[bobcat]

I had not heard of that, thanks for posting. That's the problem with allowing exotic animals on game farms.

Thankfully, game farms are illegal in Washington (one of the things this state did right).

[blacktailer]

Thanks for the info Plat.   Go figure, Riggins is the area I always put in for controlled deer.  I hadn't heard how the herds have been affected.   Can't be good.

[hughjorgan]

I had not heard of that, thanks for posting. That's the problem with allowing exotic animals on game farms.

Thankfully, game farms are illegal in Washington (one of the things this state did right).

Someone had exotics in the past around eburg/Yakima And we have a louse infection because of it.

[runamuk]

Some exotics are allowed in WA just no native species...and it sounds like the louse was brought into Idaho 40 years ago so has been around for a little while.

[Huntbear]

Guess you guys have never been down to Lyle...  Schreiner Farms..  they have giraffes, camels, zebras, tons of buffalo, emu, reindeer, caribou, sika deer, fallow deer, and they raise Wallaby....

NOT one case of deer with louse on them, in that area... 

Maybe it is cattle running on the open range that brings lice into the picture....  hmmmmmmmmm a ton of that happens around Eburg.... 

Lets blame someone whomever is convenient to be a target...  hell, lets blame hair loss syndrome on the deer being to stressed..... because of.. ummmmmmmmm.... ATVs  thats it.. ATVs cause hair loss syndrome because they stress the deer out......   SEE HOW RIDICULOUS that is???

[bobcat]

Well there are two different kinds of lice causing problems with deer in our state. One is affecting blacktail deer, all over the west side of the state, and one is affecting mule deer, just around Yakima and Ellensburg so far, from what I've heard.

Both of these are from exotic species of deer. So the more we can keep them out of our state, the better off we'll be.

[B.G.hunter]

I had not heard of that, thanks for posting. That's the problem with allowing exotic animals on game farms.

Thankfully, game farms are illegal in Washington (one of the things this state did right).

What about the Olympic Game farm in Sequim they have fallow deer, elk and buffalo in the same area? 

[Kowsrule30]

I think it's way different where it can be controlled and treated.... Try treating them in the wild.... Not gonna happen....