The Poultry Keeper

mojo · Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 6:27 pm Post subject: wild or not

does anyone keep domesticared wild animals like deer or bison,wild boar etc

Dorset Poultry · Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 9:10 pm Post subject:

We have Iron age pigs which are wild boar x tamworth. You need a licence ti keep wild boar in the UK (guess you dont in france?) so these are the closest things we can have on the farm. There is also a deer park 2 miles down the road although they are purely decoration, not for venison. Also where I used to live in kent they bought 6 or 7 bison to make mozzarella but these really were wild an nobody could get anywhere near them, they are very big animals.

Why are you planning on getting something wild Mojo?

traditionalbritishfowlco · Joined: 25 Jan 2006 Posts: 243 Location: lancashire

I read a v interesting article on deer farming and it said that deer were not under the same restrictons as other livestock and could be shot where they stood in the field, which imo is much more humane than a stressful trip to the abbatoir - and apparently their field mates dont bat an eyelid when one of their friends drops dead either!

mojo · Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 8:41 pm Post subject:

you must have read the same bit as me.......no just nosey again