deer keds
 

Having hunted deer for 50 years from Maine to Pennsylvania Sat. my son shot a buck that at first seemed to be infested with ticks, nothing new there. Upon a closer look they were deer keds according to Google. Having never seen them before i was wondering what experiences others have had with them.

At every turn lately a new invasive is turning up.

That’s a new one on me !

if you google them they seem to be an invasive from europe with a strange life cycle. they have been in some parts of the country for some time.
My sons and friends have been butchering our deer for some time since it became too expensive to have it done and this is a first. They are very obvious in that they move much faster than a tick.

Yes I googled them when I read your first post .

I’ve dealt with keds a few times when deer hunting up around Shohola Lake gamelands in the Poconos of Pennsylvania, during years when the weather was warm. They’re quite irritating as they land or crawl up on you and make their way to your neck and up into your hair. I’ve never been bitten or anything but it’s unnerving and irritating.
Take care
Tim

I think 2002 or 2003 I hunted the first week of the PA season around Sterling and Newfoundland PA . That year from mid morning until the evening you could hunt in a t-shirt and as expected the deer had plentiful herds of ticks but I never noticed any of these keds things .

They get into your hair and you wanna shave your head. Ask me how I know.

So that’s why Koneski has a chrome dome :rotf::rotf::rotf::rotf:

Bleh

I've hunted deer in the Poconos all my life and never encountered Keds. Maybe the numerous ticks chase them off.:rotf:
By the way, I'm 77 and I started when I was 10.

Bob, the incident I described in my post would have occurred in the early to mid-1990s , specifically on State Gamelands 180, near the intersection of Rt. 84 and State Rd 739 in Pike County. Since 1998 I’ve been mainly a bird hunter with my German Pointers and then my Labrador up until her passing three years ago. I did deer hunt a few days most years but hunted private land around Greentown and the Brady’s Lake gamelands in Monroe County. I never had anymore incidents with keds, and I continued to frequent those areas hunting game birds, and ducks and geese.
Take care
Tim

The Monday after Thanksgiving is the start of gun season and my sons will be hunting this area and usually come up with a couple. I am interested to see if any of them still have the keds. The first deer was bow killed the second week of Nov. It may be an early season thing.

Tim, I bagged my first bear off the Well road on game lands 180 where Kahr Arms has their facility now. Mud Pond swamp. Our bear and deer gang hunts Skytop property now. Bradys Lake area is a good spot also.
Bob