6 deer missing from farm pose health risk to state herds

  • By Aubrey Woods
  • First Posted: January 22, 2013 - 1:40 am
    Last Updated: January 22, 2013 - 1:40 am

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Indiana Department of Natural Resources continues to search for six ear-tagged deer in Jackson County and neighboring Bartholomew, Jennings and Scott counties.

Those deer are among the 20 that escaped from a captive cervid facility — or deer farm — in 2012, a spokesman with the state Department of Natural Resources said Friday.

“Of the six, one is a buck, which had a yellow ear tag with the No. 47,” Phil Bloom said.

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