With the 2025 gun deer hunting season underway, Manitowoc County Fish and Game is reminding hunters to make sure their deer are disease-free.
In January this year, Manitowoc County had its first reported case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) found in a white-tailed deer.
The Fish and Game Unit explains that there are special CWD testing stations in the county, including the Collins Marsh, BRW Processing, the Kiel Sportsman’s Club, Country Visions Cooperative in Mishicot, and the Manitowoc Gun Club.
CWD is also preventing hunters from donating deer to area food banks or related resources because the carcasses have to be certified clean for consumption.
However, BRW Processing and Hickory Hills Meats in Chilton have agreed to participate in a special program to help.
Hunters will be able to drop off a deer at those locations, and they can test and store a deer before butchering. If you want to dispose of a deer, there are six locations in Manitowoc County.
They include the Manitowoc Gun Club, the Reedsville, Kiel, and Larrabee Sportsman Clubs, the Westshore Sportsmen’s Association, and the Cleveland F&G Property on Lakeshore Drive just south of Cleveland.
More information can be found online at mantyfg.org.
