[Jacob-list] Hunting Sheep

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Nicely put, Betty. :)

Cheryl Terrano


-----Original Message-----
From: Betty Berlenbach <lambfarm at sover.net>
To: fourhornfarm <fourhornfarm at verizon.net>; Linda <patchworkfibers at alltel.net>; JACI SIEHL <wedohoney at sbcglobal.net>; Jacob-list at jacobsheep.com
Sent: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 2:14 am
Subject: Re: [Jacob-list] Hunting Sheep



For people who have no clue about animals and insist on treating them as if they were people, which is NOT respecting animal behaviour and customs.


----- Original Message ----- 

From: fourhornfarm 

To: Linda ; JACI SIEHL ; Jacob-list at jacobsheep.com 

Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 9:02 PM

Subject: Re: [Jacob-list] Hunting Sheep




PETA is a four letter word. 


----- Original Message ----- 

From: Linda 

To: JACI SIEHL ; Jacob-list at jacobsheep.com 

Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 8:55 PM

Subject: Re: [Jacob-list] Hunting Sheep




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.

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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? 

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Linda





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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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