[Jacob-list] Hunting Sheep

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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.

  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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