[Jacob-list] Hunting Sheep

[Linda]

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



 
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> 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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