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SUMMER 2019

Alabama Deer Association - Summer 2019

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5 ....................... New Board of Directors6-8 ............. Lifetime ADA Memembers9 ........................................... Join ADA10 ........................ 5 Yr. ADA Memembers21 ........................ 2019 Auction Highlight22 ………............................… Kid’s Page

11, 15, 17 .......................Immunology 101

30 ............................... Measuring Sticks

Table of Contents

ADA Content

Articles

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A D V E R T I Z I N G R AT E S

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The Publications Committee, its Director, and the ADA do not guarantee nor accept liability for the accuracy or

correctness of this publication. We will however do our best to provide you with good usable information.

P U B L I C AT I O N SD I R EC TO R

Katelyn DorsettCell: 205-337-3640

[email protected]

P.O. Box 263 Columbiana, AL 35051

S E N D N E W S, I D E A S, C L A S S I F I E D S, A DV E R T I S I N G, E TC. TO:

The ADA Publications CommitteeValues Your Input!

P U B L I C AT I O N S C O M M I T T E E M E M B E R S

Email Katelyn Dorsett 205-337-3640

[email protected]

Troy ZacchiniPresident

[email protected]

Terry KennedyVice President

256-990-3838 [email protected]

Jason SpinksSecretary


Lee HarkinsTreasurer


Misty EdmonsonExecutive Director


Jason Edmonson 205-296-0062

[email protected]

Eddie Murphree 205-369-9790

[email protected]

Stan Parker 205-647-1651

[email protected]

Katelyn Dorsett [email protected]

205-337-3640

Tommy [email protected]

Joe Headley205-287-1691

[email protected]

Mark Long256-558-9427

[email protected]

Camron Odom251-689-7321

[email protected]

Timothy Spiller239-872-1068

[email protected]

Jeff Beaver256-571-5054

[email protected]

Board of Directors



Lifetime MembersPlease make note of those that selflessly sacrifice

for the betterment of the industry we love.

Kenneth Walker Phone: 256-708-6864

Edward O. Murphree, Jr.Phone: 205-369-9790

Email: [email protected]

W H I T E T A I L S

VALLEYCEDARVC W

Jeff BeaverPhone: 256-878-6054

[email protected]

Chip & Mistie BurkesPhone: 256-558-8997

[email protected]

Brett DavisPhone: 205-926-4439

Email: [email protected] Boutwel & Curtis Lloyd

Phone: [email protected]

Stan ParkerPhone: 205-335-1640

[email protected]

WHITETAILS

Alabama Coastal

Whitetails

Brian Doege Elberta, AL 36530

Phone: 251-978-3486 Email: [email protected]

Brian DoegePhone: 251-978-3486


Bo PiercePhone: 256-221-1076

[email protected]

3800 Joe Mallisham ParkwayTuscaloosa, AL 35401


STEPHEN BECK



Timothy SpillerPhone: (C) 239-872-1068

(O) 334-762-3490Email: [email protected] Ricky Spratlin

Phone: 334-300-0129 [email protected]

Terry KennedyPhone: 256-990-3838

[email protected] www.southernyankees.net

Jason PilgerPhone: 228-990-1347

jpilger@legacywhitetailpreserve.comwww.legacywhitetailpreserve.com

Troy Zachinni Phone:334-346-2255

[email protected]

Scott ParkerPhone: 205-915-0015

[email protected] www.whiteoakwhitetails.com

Wesley HollingsworthPhone: 803-317-9813

[email protected]

David A. Divine, Jr.Phone: 256-504-1233

[email protected]

Tonlo SwordsPhone: 256-572-4577

Scotty HooperPhone: 256-338-8605


Thank You!



Please make note of those that selflessly sacrifice for the betterment of the industry we love.

George CaglePhone: 334-285-2877


Ricky & Karol Beck Phone: 334-726-2908

[email protected]

Chad TannerPhone: 678-322-6210


Scottie KelleyPhone: (256) 505-2396

[email protected]

Scottie’s Whitetail Deer Farm

Lewis BearPhone: 850-516-2055Email: [email protected]

Phone: 334-714-2541Email: [email protected]

Chris Centafont

Chris WigleyPhone: 256-738-5059


Rusty WeaverPhone: 205-529-9377

[email protected] www.weavertwowhitetails.com

Ricky ClevelandPhone: 205-533-5049


Xtreme Whitetailsof Alabama

[email protected]

Curt Eddy

Phone: 256-593-2902

Joey Gilliland

Lifetime Members



will be recognized on the ADA Website, in all ADA Magazines, and at every ADA

Tradeshow for the life of the member! Each Lifetime Member shall be entitled to attend all ADA meetings and receive quarterly ADA

magazine.

Consider joining the Alabama Deer Association and see what great benefits ADA has to offer with your membership commitment! Everyone benefits from healthier deer

and better harvests. Give us a call for more info!

Contact Katelyn Dorsett at 256-337-3640 or

email at [email protected]

5 YEAR MEMBERS

LIFETIME MEMBERS

Needs You Too!

Your membership means more than you know.

The ADA

will be recognized on the ADA Website, in all ADA Magazines, and at every ADA Trade-

show for 5 years! Each Lifetime Member shall be entitled to attend all ADA meetings

and receive quarterly ADA magazine.

shall be entitled to attend all ADA meetings and receive quarterly ADA magazine. Voting

rights for in state members only.

GOLD MEMBERS

shall be entitled to receive quarterly ADA magazine. No voting rights.

SILVER MEMBERS

shall be entitled to receive quarterly ADA magazine. No voting rights.

BRONZE MEMBERS

The ADA is here for its members. Everything we do is for the betterment of Alabama

deer farmers. If we can better serve you, please contact us.

We would love to hear from you.

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Please make note of those that selflessly sacrifice for the betterment of the industry we love.

5 Year Members

Kent Upton - 2015Email: [email protected]

KKG, LLC.

Jeff McCallister - 2016Phone: 334-726-6094

MuleshoePlantations

Lee Harkins -2014Phone: 205-358-8717


Steve Riddle - 2016Phone: 217-454-9519

[email protected]

Jon Billings - 2016Phone: 205-534-4239

David Kornegay - 2016Phone: 205-233-1944


Parris Hollow FarmsFyffe, AL

Johnny & Regina Parris - 2016Phone: 256-630-2478


Tim Miller - 2017

Bud Adams - 2017B&B Farms

Cargill - 2017

Buddy Bruser - 2018Phone: [email protected]

Joseph Martin & Chuck Freeman - 2018

[email protected]

Larry Studstill - [email protected]

Red Hill Plantation



Joe Ables, DVM, MA

The world prior to Genesis 3:6 was a perfect world. The waters were full of fish, the skies full of birds, and the land was rich in animals and wildlife (big, tall, short, and small). The earth was “good!” Man-kind was created and all authority was given to us and there was no disease, infection, nor contamination for the Lord said it was “perfect!” Life after Genesis 3:6 resulted in a major transfer of power and authority to darkness. Plants became poisonous. Infectious bacte-ria, yeast, fungi, and viruses entered the world. There was no need for antibiotics, antifungals or pharmaceu-tical companies prior to Genesis 3:6. As mankind lost all authority and power over the earth to darkness, contamination and hard work became common place. Mankind could no longer reenter Paradise. The sin of the world separated us from Paradise. As life contin-ued over the years, many plagues and turmoil were placed on mankind. This was not the fault of the Lord, but by darkness.

Many years later, discoveries were made and treat-ments were successful in correcting and preventing disease. As knowledge grew, thousands of lives, in-cluding animals, were saved and animals could grow to their designed potential and become productive. But darkness pushed back. Very shortly after the great discoveries, bacteria and fungi began to become re-sistant to the treatments so many more studies were completed yielding good results. Over the genera-tions, the eb and flow of the pharmaceutical tides have resulted in medication resistance and interreference of the proper body’s function and design. Medications began to cause more harm than good. Side effects weighed more heavily than the effectiveness of many of the synthetic pharmaceuticals.

More re-searched ensued. The discovery of an-tigens and antibodies (immunoglobulins) began to gain more popularity. The knowledge that bacteria created a reaction in the body, and the body’s own immune system had a developed plan of attack was discovered. When infectious bac-teria enter the body, certain proteins on the surface of the bacteria stimulated a calculated host reaction. Recognition, activation, proliferation, and differentia-tion are terms taken by the host regarding infectious agents. As infectious organisms enter the body, the body recognizes the proteins of the structure of the organism as foreign (“antigens”) and produces an-tibodies against the antigen. The immune system is complex and interacts with the body daily.

The immune system is broken down into “Hu-moral Immunity” and “Cell-Mediated Immunity” and further broken down into Nonspecific Host Defenses and Specific Host Defenses. In this article, Immunol-ogy 101, we will briefly focus on Humoral Immunity

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(Immunity associated with the fluids of the body). The Nonspecific Host Defense is often called nonspe-cific immunity or “innate” immunity. Components of this defense system consist of barriers to Infection and induced mechanisms. The body has barriers to infectious bacteria such as the skin layer (epithelium), chemical defenses of the body surfaces including se-cretions from “normal” bacterial flora that line the epithelium in the gastrointestinal tract, as well as acidic secretions from the stomach. The purpose of “nor-mal” microbial flora is to prevent establishment of in-fectious bacteria on the epithelium. Induced mecha-nisms of the body include Inflammation. Inflammation is the tissue’s response to injury resulting from infec-tious agents (antigens). Inflammation is demonstrated by heat, redness, and swelling at the site of infection. Chemicals from the host cause leakiness of blood ves-sels at the sites and allow specialized cells from the blood stream called white blood cells (WBCs) to move from the bloodstream into the tissues to confront the invading antigens. Under the induced mechanism component of the Nonspecific Host Defense, various proteins and cells cause damage to the invaders and the WBCs phagocytize foreign agents (bring into the cell and digest with enzymes).

The Specific Host Defense has been called specific, adaptive, and acquired immunity. In this system, spe-cific host cells are produced to battle infectious/for-eign agents. These cells are called Lymphocytes and there are B and T lymphocytes. As the recognition of

an antigen is discovered by the host (proteins from the cell wall), the Lymphocytes become activated (increase in size) and rapidly proliferate. After the numerous cells are produced, they are differentiated into effector cells ( B and T Lymphocytes) or into memory cells. B lymphocytes secrete antibodies that bind to the anti-gen and attack extracellular infectious/foreign agents (outside the cell membrane). T lymphocytes attack in-tracellular agents (inside of the host’s cells). Memory cells are cells that were not used to fight the battle and they continue to circulate the bloodstream and wait on the next impending battle and some wait in the region-al lymph nodes. When the immune system is activated and fighting an infection, lymph nodes swell due to the activation of the cells inside the lymph nodes. This is why doctors look into and feel your throat to see if your body is fighting an infection. Chronic infections tend to exhibit larger lymph nodes than normal.

The B Lymphocytes are responsible for produc-ing antibodies. The antibodies attach, neutralize, and present antigens to WBCs to be eaten (phagocytized) and eliminated and also prevent the infectious agents from attaching to the epithelium of the host, thus they get “flushed” from the host. The antibodies can not cross cell walls and they stimulate WBCs to fight as be-fore mentioned. This is where the T Lymphocytes en-ter the equation. T lymphocytes can enter the host’s cells where the advanced foreign objects can hide and replicate, such as viruses (EHD, Blue Tongue Virus, etc.) and intracellular bacteria.

The body’s Natural Immunity has many advanced steps that most producers don’t understand. How-ever, education is always critical when producing a complete herd health plan. If this natural system is

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so effective, why do we need pharmaceuticals and antimicrobials. Most pharmaceuticals do not de-cipher between host natural bacterial/yeast/fungi (natural “good” flora) from infectious bacteria/yeast/fungi. The biggest problem the host’s im-mune system faces is stress. Stress releases cor-ticosteroids (dexamethasone) which prevents the immune system from working efficiently and effec-tively. With that in mind, “synthetic stress” can be administered to a patient that is fighting a particular virus (EHD/BTV) by which the immune system of the host over reacts and dexamethasone is a great solution to prevent the immune system from de-stroying the host.

Going back to “natural immunity”, antibodies have been historically used in treatments but have been down played over the years by pharmaceutical companies. Antibiotics do have a role in medicine but their dependence is not guaranteed forever. Concentrating on the body’s physiology and under-standing how we can combat disease has become more and more favorable. The use of antibody spe-cific proteins against antigens has been around since Genesis.

It is time to go back to God’s drawing board and use what He created in order to protect and maintain a better quality of life for the world. Im-munology has been established since the beginning of time. It has been a mystery to many folks, but education is only half the battle. We have to apply what we have learned.

Fast forward a few years. A child was sent to this world to transfer the power and authority from darkness back to mankind so we could re-enter Paradise. Jesus came to teach and train us how to regain authority over disease and darkness. What-ever you can think of, ask for, or pray for, God has already completed it 2000 plus years ago. We just have to speak and believe what He has done to re-lease His power. Repeating what God has already said back to Him is the perfect example of Prayer. Test Him, hold on, and get ready for an awesome ride…

Joe Ables, DVM, [email protected]

ADA Members Group

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We were taking it easy one Saturday evening at the house, and my 9 year old walks up to me and says something that hit me like a ton of bricks. Just a month ago he shot his first buck. It was a young 10 point—scored 110 or so, but in his eyes you would have thought it was a world record. I cleaned up the skull cap and he has carried it around for a few weeks. He had planned on coming with me to the ADA annual auction. I thought he would enjoy seeing some of the mounts and talking with people about deer, but he fell ill the day before the show. I was able to bring him back some magazines and papers to look through. He was really getting into seeing all the big bucks. That’s when he said what he said. Holding his rack in his hands, “Daddy my deer is not as big as some of these other ones.”

He wasn’t being a little spoiled child that wanted a toy better/bigger than the one he already had. It was simply that the value of HIS trophy had been made smaller by comparing it to others. You can probably guess exactly what I said in the moments to follow. It was a perfect opportunity to talk about what the word “trophy” actually meant. That rack, big or small, was a reminder of the great time we had

shooting that deer together—how we celebrated af-ter the shot—how we learned about following a blood trail—how he helped skin it out—how I watched all of the guys congratulate him that day—riding around with the tailgate down so all could see. I took that moment to talk about how hunting is not about the biggest and best. It is about enjoying the process and the anticipa-tion the day before a big hunt.

I hope he does shoot a bigger deer next year. I hope it’s a 250 inch monster. But I hope more than that, he will be able to enjoy hunting because of what it does for two people who share this past-time to-gether. I want him to have memories he can look back on and smile. I want him to appreciate what goes into a hunt.

Deer farming has been tricky for me. I grew up shooting spikes and 4 points. Those large antlers can change your view on what a trophy really looks like. I need to be reminded that the process and memories of deer farming are important too. I want to grow some magnificent deer as our herd improves. No matter the

size of the deer, we need to have pride in what we have accomplished with what we have been given. It would be easy for any of us to get lost in the race and forget to enjoy what we have.

Measuring Sticks

Tommy Hatfield



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See you Next year!


2019 Spring Auction...in the books

Time to start thinking about 2020

A Big "Thank You" to all that

helped and participated

The annual Tradeshow and Auction is so much more than just a fund raiser for our organization. It is a time for fellow deer farmers to unite, spending quality time and connecting with those who share the same love for our industry. Join us in 2020!

See you Next year!



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