Livestock has been crossbred, linebred, inbred and outcrossed for millenia. How do you feel about this subject when it comes to Whitetailed Deer. Should we be artifically inseminating does just to produce bigger antlers?
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Livestock has been crossbred, linebred, inbred and outcrossed for millenia. How do you feel about this subject when it comes to
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We certainly have performed all of the above in purebred horses ever since someone devised a halter and a leadrope to hold them. I don't know about deer except that in one small in the south years ago, and I assume still today, there existed a herd of spotted deer with a few solid white ones. I never killed a tobiano buck but do have a friend there who did. He tanned the hide and it is very attractive on his law office wall. As far as I know it was never determined how these genetics came about. I know this narative varies somewhat from your question but it does provide imput regarding that sometimes Mother Nature performs the unexpected. I guess I vote for bigger antlers but then I like to trophy hunt. I had much rather see a doe hit the ground than people going around shooting small bucks just to say they did it.
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Not a fan with wild animals. But it is a high profit business, so will likely continue. It definitely raises a few eyebrows when a huge racked breeding buck brings high bucks ($$$). These aren't supposed to be released into the wild but a few escape and others have been purposely released.
When animals are threatened or endangered or reintroduced we look at that differently. But is it? Kind of a gray matter.
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No, we shouldn't because we prize the white tail as a wild creature and when we breed it to meet our designs it isn't really wild anymore. It becomes like the Holstein, or the Thoroughbred, or the latest round-up ready corn. Living things that are not found anywhere in nature. When we mess with life we make it better for US but if you put it back into nature it is weaker, more susceptible to disease and less able to compete and survive.
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No, we should not mess with mother-nature. I have read that in Buffalo County, WI that outfitters in the area let a few big breeders into the wild to boost genetics. Anyone else hear that? If so that's weak. Greed. I know deer farms suffer escapes all the time, thereby spreading artificial genes into the herd. I think we need to leave'm alone, let nature take care of business.
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