EHD in Eaton County?

 

A dead deer in the Upper Orchard. Maybe a couple of weeks old.

Another dead deer. This one in the Hill Orchard. No evidence of an archery wound. The other deer was too-far gone to even look for evidence wounds from a hunter.

Dating corpses is an art and ambient temperatures make a huge difference. My Wild Azz Guess is that this deer has been dead for four days. Extremely bloated. Prolapsing rectum. Rectum? Heck, it killed 'im.

In total, the Upper and Hill Orchards are about an acre. Two dead deer in a single acre doesn't mean EHD is in Eaton County but it doesn't bode well for the 2026 hunting season.

Word on the street is that Jackson and Calhoun Counties, both of them directly south of Eaton County, have been hammered by EHD.