https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12476557/Wisconsin-deer-farm-q

The map provided in this story is interesting. Only a few scant counties are without
some sort of CWD adventures if I interpret it correctly.

Place oughta be shut down for running 300 deer on 150 acres anyway. Good grief.

I hunted Florence and Forrest counties back around 05 and CWD was in a few southern and western counties
It has spread rapidly evidently. Steve and his buddies quit deer hunting because lack of seeing any due to the wolves and not CWD he said. The deer population was pretty low in the northern counties back when I hunted it. He said it was almost nonexistent now. He only birds hunts these days.

I had a friend up there who used to have to watch his dogs close when fishing rivers, or the Wolves would pick one off.
Maybe that's why those northern counties are clean. He was in Colfax WI.

We bird hunted a lot up there. It seemed most little stores had pics of missing dogs either bear dogs or bird dogs. Wolves don’t too kindly to them. Dave and Steve’s cabin was visited one night by a pack. A recording of wolves howling has nothing on the real thing. Dogs were spooky after that.

I’ll take it a step further and say that whitetail deer shouldn’t be bred or living in fences at all. They are wild game, not livestock. Mess around with nature and diseases have a way of revealing themselves. I find it ridiculous that when a huge buck gets killed in America the first question that has to be answered is whether it was wild or from some deer farm.

The entire concept of already “owning” an animal you claim to be “hunting” seems contradictory.

Yeah and cows shouldn't be raised just to be killed with a bolt gun .

And yes apples to apples . Either one just as dead

So you know

Cattle were independently domesticated from the aurochs, a wild bovine species, in the vicinity of the current countries of Turkey and Pakistan ∼10,000 y ago. Cattle have since spread with humans across the world, including to regions where these two distinct lineages have hybridized..

Yes I am aware that all domesticated livestock were once wild animals thousands of years ago. The difference to me is that domestication of livestock is done to provide mass quantities of food or labor. The sport of deer hunting is based upon the idea of some semblance of fair chase of a wild animal which has adapted over thousands of years to fear humans as their primary predator. I can't fathom how "domestication" and "hunting" coincide. Normally I would say to each their own, but it seems to be common understanding now that pen raised domesticated deer caused and are further spreading diseases which are impacting wild deer.

Corn is the answer