[Jacob-list] Hunting Sheep
Linda
patchworkfibers at alltel.net
Thu Mar 13 20:55:40 EDT 2008
Excellent points, Jaci.
And here's a question - where is everyone taking their cull rams? Are you taking them to an auction where they may end returning to the breeding population? Remember we have an open flock book - your culls can come back and be presented for registration. Or where they may go someplace where they are not humanely treated? I used to hunt - mostly birds (I love bird dogs) and deer. I honestly don't know anything about canned hunts, but I know it's possible in the wild to wound an animal and not be able to find it. I think maybe in canned hunts where someone is paying uptiddy dollars, at least we know the animal has been recovered. How many of you have a healthy ethnic market for your sheep? Is that horrible? How many of you would be thrilled to get $300 for your cull ram lambs? I would. I'm not raising pets - I'm raising livestock.
Is this "deja vu all over again?". Didn't we do this ebay thing 3 weeks or so ago? There's really only one ram there (the one with the horrible forward horns) that could be considered a Jacob. Peggy, please don't get PETA involved. Wasn't it PETA that burned the Lasseau barn with the sheep inside?
Linda
www.patchworkfibers.com
Registered Jacob Sheep, Angora Rabbits, Handspun Yarn
> Ok - I don't mean to make enemies but I do have a couple
> observations and comments regarding these hunts. I kept quiet on
> the last round of postings about the hunt clubs, but I can't keep
> quiet any longer.
>
> First I think it very interesting that many of the sheep appear to
> have been freshly sheared......odd, huh?
>
> Now for the part many of you won't like. Many of the rams in the
> pictures have horns that would not allow them to be registered and
> something none of us trying to preserve the breed would want to use
> as a herd sire. So, that being said, what would have become of the
> ram if not at the hunting club? Into someone's freezer, with the
> pelt and maybe the head processed and sold to a customer.
>
> I use to hunt and really enjoyed it - but I now prefer to eat meat
> that has been humanly slaughtered and not taken by hunting. That
> is my choice.
>
> I know that many more wild animals would starve to death if some of
> the populations were not controlled by hunting, or the predators
> would become too numerous and dangerous to man. I believe in our
> right to hunt - I don't want anyone to take that away from me or
> anyone else.....my heart breaks when I think of some animal I am
> close to like Jacob sheep being hunted - but I can't be a hypocrite
> and say it is ok to hunt bears, coyotes, or mountain lions because
> they are eating our sheep and not think that the same should hold
> true for other animals. I don't believe in waste in taking any
> life - I don't' even kill mice - I catch and move them.
>
> We all get emotional because we are close to this breed - but are
> they so different from the big horn sheep in the wild? Remember in
> some cultures they wouldn't eat a cow if their life depended on it
> and in others horse and dog are a part of their regular diet.
>
> Hunting is a right and if we don't agree with it all we can do is
> not hunt and not knowingly supply animals to to be hunted. Hunting
> clubs are similar to fishing farm-raised fish - whether in a big
> lake or some pond at the farm, but how many get emotional over
> catching a trout?
>
> OK - I'm stepping off my soap box now - I just hope you remember
> that an opinion is not the same as a right and we must defend our
> rights.
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