According to the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, there will be the largest deer farm depopulation in Wisconsin history.
After chronic wasting disease was found at the facility, the action was ordered.
The process of depopulation, including whether bucks could be sold and transferred to a CWD positive shooting preserve, has been delayed until this summer.
Laurie Seale said that about 350 white-tailed deer are in pens on the 40-acre property.
The number isn't known due to the fact that there are still births at the site.
Seale said that the disease is devastating him and his business. Some of my animals will test positive, but it's not right to kill all of them.
The primary revenue came from selling big-antlered bucks to hunting ranches.
The deer were shipped to 40 facilities in seven states.
According to the CWD Alliance, chronic wasting disease is a fatal neurological disease of deer, elk and moose. The prions are stable in the soil and water and are mostly spread through animal contact.
Humans and livestock have not been found to be affected by the disease. Humans shouldn't eat meat from animals that are CWD positive.
CWD has been documented in 30 states and several foreign countries since it was found in Colorado in the 1960s. In 2002, the disease was found in captive deer.
There are 301 deer farms in Wisconsin and 38 are positive for CWD. In the last three years, twenty people have been found to be positive for CWD. The owners of twenty of the 38 have been compensated for their losses.
There will be slightly more late hunts and a decrease in antlerless permits.
The disease was found at eight Wisconsin captive deer facilities in a single year. There were two more added this year.
Wisconsin's wild deer have continued to be affected by the disease.
The deer farming industry and the wild deer herd are at risk of CWD.
The consequences of the disease include closing businesses, tying up agriculture and wildlife officials, and costs to taxpayers.
She doesn't know how the disease got onto her farm.
With the depopulation of deer, work on her farm will be wiped out.
A 6-year-old doe was the first CWD positive animal found at the site. Several other animals have also tested positive.
Seale said that the last animal transferred to Maple Hills Farm was from a herd that is free of CWD.
Seale wanted to sell and transfer some mature bucks to a CWD positive hunting ranch in order to feed her animals and save taxpayers money. The farm was under a scurvy order.
The elimination of the captive herd will be compensated by the federal government.
A maximum payment of $3,000 can be made by the federal fund.
Maple Hill farms will be the largest deer farms in state history in terms of the number of animals removed and the amount of indemnity payment.
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The largest depopulation was in November of 2015, when more than 200 deer were killed by the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection.
In that case, the state paid the farm owner a lot of money. The deer were culled from the herd.
More than a dozen CWD positive deer farms have been allowed by the state to remain open. The action removed about 50 deer. The animals were shot to death.
The federal funds came in to pay for the irrefer payment. It was not disclosed.
Seale will pay a vet to remove her deer from her land after she refused a plan to kill them with sharpshooters.
Seale has taken good care of his deer. If I am forced to do a depopulation, I will do it in the most humane way possible.
From two to four days, the population is expected to be depopulated. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources will be involved.
The dead deer will be taken away and tested for CWD.
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More than 300 captive deer will be killed on a Wisconsin farm because of chronic wasting disease.
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