Sheep Changes Coming

sheephunter said:
Full curl may well be the best option...I certainly haven't discounted it but it seems pretty foolhardy to embrace it before we know the facts.

As for the disease comment....you may well be much smarter that a number of the top U.S. sheep bios but for now I'll keep my mind open. Do you even know the disease being discussed or are you just discounting it because I brought it up? Count down to norski getting on Google....10...9....8 You will likely want to edit your posts then :)
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Just like the tirade of fish biologists years back with tubifex worms being the greatest fear to trout via whirling disease I have long learned that regional disease issues are far more complex that what is sold. Cold weather here helps in that regard as does the lack of sheep in areas frequented by domestic sheep. The sheepherders of the hills died out years ago (likely they stunk to death).

And I will be overly critical of the US biologists for this reason, usually when folks don't like the answer they are getting they look for science that suggests the results they want....
 
So what is the disease that cold kills that you don't believe could be responsible for lamb mortality in Alberta? Surely you must be an expert as passionately as you claiming that I'm a fool for considering it.
 
sheephunter said:
So what is the disease that cold kills that you don't believe could be responsible for lamb mortality in Alberta? Surely you must be an expert as passionately as you claiming that I'm a fool for considering it.
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I am not a expert - but I have seen these types of claims before. And the jury is still out on the second part.
 
norskie said:
And I will be overly critical of the US biologists for this reason, usually when folks don't like the answer they are getting they look for science that suggests the results they want....
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And this is exactly what will happen with this issue.

If you don't like what the biologists are saying, find more, eventually you will get what you are looking for.
 
norskie said:
show me the data collected from Alberta that suggests disease is responsible for lamb mortality.
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As I said above it's just a possibility to consider....there is no data...perhaps we don't even know it's here...perhaps it isn't....you know "that" disease. Norskie it's obvious you haven't got a clue what I'm speaking of yet you will argue till you're blue in the face that black is white if I said white is white. You're a fairly intelligent guy and I'd think you'd be interested in learning more about all the factors that could be negatively affecting our sheep populations yet you'd rather argue with me than perhaps suck up your pride and say you weren't aware of something. There's lots to learn on this subject...much more than hunters are harming bighorn genetics as our top biologist would have us believe. Thankfully we have people that are willing to listen to everyone and make an educated decision at the helm of the AGMAG groups. Your signature line couldn't be more self prophetic!

I will keep sharing info but you just earned the ignore button....you obviously have no interest in what's best for sheep or Alberta's sheep hunters. Perhaps if you hunted sheep more than a couple days a year you'd get the passion some of us have. Countdown to ARHJ dogpile! 10....9.....8......
 
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sheephunter said:
As I said above it's just a possibility to consider....there is no data...perhaps we don't even know it's here...perhaps it isn't....you know "that" disease. Norskie it's obvious you haven't got a clue what I'm speaking of yet you will argue till you're blue in the face that black is white if I said white is white. You're a fairly intelligent guy and I'd think you'd be interested in learning more about all the factors that could be negatively affecting our sheep populations yet you'd rather argue with me than perhaps suck up your pride and say you weren't aware of something. There's lots to learn on this subject...much more than hunters are harming bighorn genetics as our top biologist would have us believe. Thankfully we have people that are willing to listen to everyone and make an educated decision at the helm of the AGMAG groups. Your signature line couldn't be more self prophetic!

I will keep sharing info but you just earned the ignore button....you obviously have no interest in what's best for sheep or Alberta's sheep hunters.
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Good lord - you could cut the irony here with a chainsaw folks.
 
Tempest said:
Well I can't wait to hear what this disease is sounds like we have a major breakthrough on the horizon.
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I would have thought by your comments above that you knew what I was speaking of...apparently another one that argues for argument sake......and we wonder why hunting opportunity is going down the toilet. And you always seemed like the most educated and willing learn of the clan. I must say I'm disappointed. You are correct black is white................
 
Tempest said:
Why don't you quit stroking yourself and tell us.
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Why don't you tell us what's wrong with the possibility I put forward...you know, "that" disease. You seemed pretty impassioned arguing against it. You must have known what you were arguing against...didn't you?
 
the spank said:
OK not into the arguing here but I have a question as someone who has never hunted sheep. What kind of table fare are they? Good? bad? mediocre?
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Thinhorn sheep are some of the best meat I've ever tasted...all of them. I've had really good bighorn rams and I've had really bad ones....sometimes off the same range shot at the same time of year and handled in exactly the same manner. Bighorns shot in November would rate pretty low on my list of favourite meats. Bighorn ewes on the other hand are always pretty darned fine.
 
Tempest said:
Why don't you pretend for a minute to care about the hunters of Alberta and tell them.
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Why don't you pretend for a minute and care about gaining some new insight rather than turning every informational post into a peeing match....even when you have zero clue what the post is about. I must say the clan's brief hiatus was enjoyable. Funny how you all disappear and then reappear at the same times. If I were a conspiracy theorist I'd think....ah never mind. Easier to place you on ignore too.
 
Every Alberta sheep hunter and manager is on the edge of the chair...

Well if someone would like to follow up for me that would be great. I guess we'll just have to wait til this "top" bio from the states ambushes our bios at the AGMAG meeting. I hope the herd will last til then.

Maybe he was told by whoever was at that meeting not to tell.
 
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Tempest said:
Maybe he was told by whoever was at that meeting not to tell.
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Funny, that was the first thing that came to mind reading these latest posts. For those that don't know, we Albertans had a "representative" at a certain table that was told not to tell. Great representation is all I have to say. If I recall correctly, he was a fellow employee of one of the gunnutz above.
 
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