Staffed CWD Check Stations

Kentucky Fish and Wildlife staff will be operating CWD Check Stations from 9 a.m. - 7 p.m. (Central) on Nov. 9-11, Nov. 16-17 and Nov. 23-24.

• What do you bring? The head of a deer, and intact deer carcass or a field-dressed deer. Note: Tissue sampling will not harm heads or capes/hides intended for taxidermy mounts—please advise staff at the check station if you intend to have your deer head mounted. 
• What do you need to provide? Telecheck and licensing information, an approximate harvest location and the name of the taxidermist or processor (if applicable). You can find that location by clicking here https://fw.ky.gov/Wildlife/Pages/CWD-SurveillanceZone.aspx and scrolling to the KNOW BEFORE YOU GO SECTION and searching the address location on the map of Kentucky... 

Two Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD​) Surveillance Zones are in ​effect: 

CWD Surveillance Zone With Mandatory Check Stations: Ballard, Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Marshall, and McCracken counties

CWD Surveillance Zone Without Mandatory Check Stations: Breckinridge, Hardin, and Meade counties​

Special regulations apply in these zones. Inclusion in a CWD Surveillance Zone does not change deer seasons or bag limits in the county.

SPECIAL REGULATIONS IN CWD SURVEILLANCE ZONES

All deer harvested within Ballard, Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Marshall, and McCracken counties by any method ​on Nov. 9-11, Nov. 16-17 and Nov 23-24 (weekends during modern gun, plus the Monday after opening weekend) must be brought to a CWD Check Station or CWD Sample Drop-off site. See section below for more information.  Mandatory check stations are not in effect for the CWD Surveillance Zone in Breckinridge, Hardin, and Meade counties​. 

Grain, feed, mineral blocks, salt blocks and other baits used to attract deer cannot be used in any CWD Surveillance Zone. This helps prevent deer from concentrating, which increases spread of disease. Bird feeders in yards, planted food plots and normal agricultural practices such as mineral blocks or feed for cattle are allowed. Hunters can use products that are not ingested by deer, such as scent attractors and deer urine products.

Whole carcasses or high-risk parts (head, skull cap or skull with any brain material, or spine) of any deer, elk, moose or caribou harvested in another state cannot be brought back into Kentucky. For further information please review KAR 2:095 Importation of Cervid Carcasses and Parts.

Carcasses or high-risk parts of deer harvested within a CWD Surveillance Zone may not be taken outside of the zone. Only de-boned meat, antlers, antlers attached to a clean skull cap, a clean skull, clean teeth, hides and finished taxidermy products may be taken out of a CWD Surveillance Zone.

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  Mandatory Check Stations for Ballard, Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Marshall, and McCracken Counties
• No Baiting or Wildlife Feeding
• Carcass Importation Prohibited
• Carcass Transportation Restrictions
• Prohibition of the Rehabilitation of Cervids
  • The rehabilitation of deer or any other cervid in a CWD Surveillance Zone is prohibited.
  • Any cervid currently being rehabilitated must be released (per 301 KAR 2:075 release requirements) within the county in which rehabilitation took place.
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https://fw.ky.gov/Wildlife/Pages/CWD-Sample-Drop-off-Sites.aspx

https://app.fw.ky.gov/cwdlookup/