Deer Attractants Ban – ????

I was just reading thru the Minnesota Deer hunting Regulations and ran across a new Regulations that bans the use of deer attractants that contain deer urine. Direct from the Regulations:

Feeding and attractant bans are in place across the state to prevent concentrations of wild deer in areas with a higher risk for disease. These bans are precautionary steps the DNR took after deer that tested positive for chronic wasting disease were found both in the wild and on deer farms. Feeding bans encompass wider areas because food sources can concentrate deer and allow for close contact – one of the mechanisms for CWD spread.
•Deer feeding includes: placement or distribution of salt, minerals, grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts, hay and other food that is capable of attracting or enticing deer.
•Deer attractants are: natural or manufactured products that are capable of attracting or enticing deer, including any product that contains or claims to contain cervid urine (example “doe in heat”), blood, gland oil, feces or other bodily fluid.

Starting Sept. 1, 2019, due to further discoveries of CWD, these bans will expand to include additional counties in north central and southeast Minnesota

If this is something that has already been discussed here I’m sorry but I may have missed it. A fair amount of the more common Deer scents contain some form of Deer Urine in them. I guess like athletes we now need to know exactly what is in the products we are using. I’m not sure if I’m understanding this correct or am missing something. This sure cant be good for companies like Tinks and several other manufactures of various deer scents ( attractants )

This is just for CWD counties correct?

watisituya wrote:

This is just for CWD counties correct?

Deer feeding and attractants are banned in the following southeast and north central counties:
•Southeast counties: Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Steele, Wabasha and Winona. Following last year’s additional discoveries of CWD in the southeast area of the state, Dodge, Freeborn, Goodhue and Steele counties will be included in the deer feeding and attractant ban. While CWD has not been discovered in these counties, the ban is in place to limit deer congregation and thus reduce the risk of disease transmission.
•North central counties: Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing, Hubbard, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Todd and Wadena. Because of the discovery of a CWD-positive wild deer in February, the north central counties previously under a deer feeding ban will now also be included in an attractant ban. All of Cass and Mille Lacs counties are included in this feeding and attractant ban, and Hubbard, Todd and Wadena counties have been added to the restrictions.

fishthumper wrote:

A fair amount of the more common Deer scents contain some form of Deer Urine in them. I guess like athletes we now need to know exactly what is in the products we are using.

Just to be clear, it doesn’t matter WHATS inside the products. They can be real urine, fake urine, have animal byproducts or not have any animals parts in them. If it has the potential to attract deer, it can’t be used in certain areas.

ClownColor wrote:

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A fair amount of the more common Deer scents contain some form of Deer Urine in them. I guess like athletes we now need to know exactly what is in the products we are using.

Just to be clear, it doesn’t matter WHATS inside the products. They can be real urine, fake urine, have animal byproducts or not have any animals parts in them. If it has the potential to attract deer, it can’t be used in certain areas.

You are correct – I did not see it correctly.

I still wonder why the DNR hasn’t banned the use of deer urine statewide. They say CWD is passed through urine, feces, saliva, etc. All these end up in bottle deer urine from a deer farm. Additionally, deer farms are more likely to contain CWD. Typically urine from multiple farms are mixed together during the bottling process. If a farm later tests positive for CWD is the product recalled and removed from the shelves? I’ve never heard of it…

Again, I ask why isn’t this banned statewide? I certainly won’t be laying urine on my land.

Ironically, I was at the Rochester Fleet Farm Orange sale at 6 this morning and the busiest aisle in the hunting department was that where the scents were found. Saw lots of bottles in carts.

I wouldn’t put a scent on the ground anyway. I always tied a strip of cloth to a stick or twig four or five feet off the ground so the scent can carry in the slightest of breezes.

If those wild deer wouldn’t go sniffing the noses of deer in fenced enclosures there’d be much less of the cwd.