What should a land owner do if they find a dead deer?

[AN DU RU FOX]

Phone naked grills or ed stafford,or give stan z a shout on yukon men his fishwheels not producing!!or the ever faithful poke it with a stick!!

 

[Cascade]

Just leave it in situ for decomposition and disposal by scavengers. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust... you'll find it is gone in no time.
If the carcass is on a permitted footpath or public footpath it would be wise to drag it into the bushes, a bit out of sight.

+1 and probably your best option ( just check for a bullet hole )

 

[Markfox]

Fox food it'll soon go

 

[Chasey]

Wild animals are exempt, unless they have a disease transmissible etc humans or animals:https://www.gov.uk/guidance/fallen-stock

Took some finding though. Move it to a less offensive place, not within 50m of a water course.

Many thanks exactly what i ws looking for

 

[Chasey]

SO as I suspected the carcus is an issue if it fell from a transmisable desease. So as a CAT1 APB it would need specilist disposal

The point i was going to make in the pro stalking / deer management argument is the land owner is probably not qualified to asses the carcass. So having an in house stalker with DSC1 / 2 they could gain advantage from a free carcass inspection to deturmin the suitabuility for removal buryal etc.

I am basicly trying to put forward argument for small woodland owners to allow access for deer management and this is one of the + points i had considered worthy of adding.

Lots of the 5-10 acre woodland plots are owned on a leasure basis by people with slim knowladge of woodland management

ATB

Chasey

 

[stubear]

That would be a disaster - I rely on pages and pages of drivel to start my fire with

I do exactly this with the free "news"papers up in London! I'll pick up half a dozen Metros or Evening Standards (usually to some funny looks) and that goes straight in the firelighter pile at home haha!

 

[gsorense]

SO as I suspected the carcus is an issue if it fell from a transmisable desease. So as a CAT1 APB it would need specilist disposal

The point i was going to make in the pro stalking / deer management argument is the land owner is probably not qualified to asses the carcass. So having an in house stalker with DSC1 / 2 they could gain advantage from a free carcass inspection to deturmin the suitabuility for removal buryal etc.

I am basicly trying to put forward argument for small woodland owners to allow access for deer management and this is one of the + points i had considered worthy of adding.

Lots of the 5-10 acre woodland plots are owned on a leasure basis by people with slim knowladge of woodland management

ATB

Chasey

I hope you're going to get someone to spell check your article first!

 

[DamaDama.243]

I hope you're going to get someone to spell check your article first!

 

[Pine Marten]

I can't believe no-one has given the obvious answer yet...

EAT IT!

 

[Whitebeard]

I can't believe no-one has given the obvious answer yet...

EAT IT!

Did you not read post 8??

Ian

 

[AN DU RU FOX]

avoid tripping hazard,

 

[Pedro]

Give it around a week and you might find some furry bits and bones left. Until then, stalk upwind.

 

[Chasey]

I hope you're going to get someone to spell check your article first!

Yes a friend is an english graduate and hes been checking my articals I have writen for magazeens and blogs for some years now as i am dyslexic so all the dictionaries in the wrold dont help and electronic spell chack often inserts words that are totaly wrong and I simply cant see the incorect word.

It is a strange afliction

ATB

 

[timbrayford]

Yes a friend is an english graduate and hes been checking my articals I have writen for magazeens and blogs for some years now as i am dyslexic so all the dictionaries in the wrold dont help and electronic spell chack often inserts words that are totaly wrong and I simply cant see the incorect word.

It is a strange afliction

ATB

How long have you worked for The Guardian?

 

[jimbo1984]

How long have you worked for The Guardian?

 

[AN DU RU FOX]

Touch its eye with a stick,then check for pikey,s,

 

[bewsher500]

I am curious

how did we get to the conclusion that it fell from a transmissible disease?
Who sampled it or made the diagnosis?
Who came to that conclusion? the land owner or someone walking on a public right of way through said land?
Is this land in Scotland (right to roam/litter) or England (law of Trespass) ?


I find the statement:
"I am basically trying to put forward argument for small woodland owners to allow access for deer management and this is one of the + points i had considered worthy of adding."...

both ambiguous and concerning.

What are you trying to achieve?

A situation where a qualified deer manager can access someone else's land without consent under certain circumstances?

Or are you trying to promote the use of experienced and qualified deer stalkers to effectively manage natural populations within a cultivated environment?.........

if the latter I see no relevance in the relatively contrived situation as a positive example
If the former....well....

 

[Chasey]

As i said the article is designed to promote dear management through deer stalking by qualified stalkers willing to cull rather than trophy hunt or shoot on site. This was a single small positive point I needed to check the facts on first

However not much of your question makes any sense?

Scinario: Land owner finds deer dead on land and has no idea why its dead, so is uncirtain wether or not to bury it

Land owner calls DSC2 qualified deer stalker who does an examination and as a result clears it for disposal on the land or refers it up to DEFRA

Thers no asumption it died of a transmissable diseise but theres surely a duty of care to check that it did or not.

 

[jimbo1984]

Thers no asumption it died of a transmissable diseise but theres surely a duty of care to check that it did or not.

No there isn't not at all ...... I don't perform autopsies on rabbits or pigeons I find dead on my ground so why would deer be any different ?

 

[Taff]

Chasey are you sayin that someone with DSC 2 is able to discern the reason why this animal died ? Are you actually serious, having worked with livestock and vets for most of my life, I can assure you it's not that simple, even using laboratory testing , cause of death is sometimes difficult to ascertain, due to degradation of tissue.
I am curious about what diseases people would inform defra about, TB is endemic in deer in some parts of the UK, but is not seen as a priority by defra or your local trading standards ( unless things have changed dramatically in the last two years) due to the low possibility of cross contamination with farm animals, foot and mouth, more likely to have shown up in farm animals well before someone finds a deer, anthrax now that would be a good one to ascertain by a quick look over.
Or is this just a ploy to obtain more stalking ? If so it is quite novel, but put yourself in the place of a land/ livestock holder, do you actually want someone running to Defra , TSD every time they find a dead animal ?