Making the news today....

[westphalian]

found this on the net, don't know how relevant as the pic above does look like a sheep to me and sheep are not wild on Islay

 

This extremely rare creature, the first known example in Britain, was born to a Cheviot ewe seven weeks ago on a farm on the island of Islay, off the Scottish coast. The father is believed to be one of the wild goats that roams the island.

Andrew Smith, 61, the farmer, said: "I've been lambing for 47 years but I have never seen anything like this.

"There are no dark sheep around here that could have been responsible but we do have the wild goats. It looks like one of them took a shine to the ewe." Goats and sheep are from the same caprinae sub-family of the bovidae cattle family. They are known to mate occasionally but any foetus produced usually dies because they have different numbers of chromosomes. There are two other recorded cases of sheep-goat hybrids - one in New Zealand in 1990 and another in Botswana five years later.

Dr Hugh Reid, a research fellow at the Moredun Foundation, a livestock research centre in Edinburgh, was shown photographs of the animal and said he was certain that it was neither a sheep nor a goat.

However the animal will need to be genetically tested to confirm its parentage.

"There is no question this is a cross-breed," said Dr Reid. "It has the posture, colourings and markings of a goat but the tucked-in tail of a sheep."

[westphalian]

actually, after further searching, it WAS a fecking sheep, a cross bred called a Scotch Mule, I assume the owner gave permission. I'm going to keep searching the net until I come across an abattoir worker standing with his foot on the head of a cow with the stun gun in his hand with the caption "aren't I a clever n brave boy?""

Edited October 25, 2018 by westphalian

[HuntingHicap]

10 minutes ago, westphalian said:

actually, after further searching, it WAS a fecking sheep, a cross bred called a Scotch Mule, I assume the owner gave permission. I'm going to keep searching the net until I come across an abattoir worker standing with his foot on the head of a cow with the stun gun in his hand with the caption "aren't I a clever n brave boy?""

Tbh I was all righteously stirred up until I saw the sheep photo....only a Yank...(sorry to stereotype but they do ask for it)

[Mike Hill]

So the lady put a hunting picture on her hunting facebook page and you don't like it because its not the type of hunting you agree with?

 

Trophy hunting is a great resource in many parts of the world,if someone with a fat wallet wants to feel good about tipping something over with big Horns,then I and many other people in the local community are all for it.

 

 

[westphalian]

Yes. Got it in one

Mind, would argue shooting a farm sheep on an island isn’t hunting

[HuntingHicap]

I'm fine with trophy hunting providing its not Yanks shooting protected/endangered species....or some poor bugger's sheep! ?

[westphalian]

yes, I would love to have the opportunity to cull deer. where trophy hunting is managed, resources are used for conservation etc who can argue but someone who believes that the taking of any animal life is wrong (good for them).

I am on a hunting forum and occ see videos of dickheads shoot an arrow into some old lion and let it bleed out after 20 minutes. I have no problem with a hunter gatherer using whatever means to get food but a dentist from Idaho that will choose to use a bow, hitting in a non kill zone when they could choose a hunting rifle, can go tug themselves off.

[Khriss]

...but nowhere near as indefensible as those shots of smug Vegans posing with their flask of  green tea telling you how healthy n energetic they are- boils my piss so it does ! I keep a ham sandwich handy in rucksack fr just such an occasion k

[westphalian]

I delight in telling them it is an unhealthy lifestyle. Because of a lack of B12 they need to take supplements. Humans are omnivores [emoji8]

I saw a few wild boar when on holiday in the Forest of Dean. Love them to be up my neck of the woods. Pork beats rabbit any day[emoji203]

[Khriss]

I know we eat a lot of unhealthy meat , an I did used to hunt when I had my firearms cert, but this meatless idea is nonsense, dairy has been a staple fr over a 1000yrs and certainly rearing standards can improve, but live only on veg ? I would never. K