Deer farm article

[rangersedge]

I have to admit that if i win the powerball, i may just buy bunch more land, high fence it, and introduce some super genetics into the local deer population.

I'm fairly confident that we have / have had some 200+ whitetails, but...  i think i've seen a few, but i've never had a legal shot at one.

farmweeknow.com/story-bucking-trend-deer-farm-thrives-central-illinois-0-147986

[richp]

Chronic wasting desease is spreading at such a rate it has been estimated there will be no deer in two or three decades. When the wildlife service find it in a domesticated herd the entire herd is destroyed. Don,t know if the 0wner is c0mpensated 0r n0t.

[magnumwheelman]

I've actually been thinking of diversifying my Sheep herd with some American Black Belly sheep... rams get huge horns... funny, if you google them, even though it's a domesticated hybrid breed, half the pictures are guys with rifles ... like they climbed a mountain to shoot this huge ram... not walked through a pasture gate... might be good money in letting some guys shoot big rams in my lil pasture

[rangersedge]

Doesnt look like i'll have to "worry" about spending my powerball winnings for a while.

One part of me doesn't really like this part of the story; but it makes sense to my pragmattic side.

"It became a family business (his mother assists by bottle-feeding the fawns).”

Karr produces shooter bucks that he sells to hunting preserves in Illinois and surrounding states, including Iowa, Missouri and Wisconsin."