The Bison are good when crossed with regular beef cattle.
For a while they were selling it as “Beefalean”.
Very tasty.
Not sure why they stopped.
The Lone Emu came from outlanders who bought a mini-farm and stocked it with exotics.
One day they up and split and somehow, the Emu got left behind.
It was a local amusement for many years.
Nobody would try to catch it though because they can gut you in a heartbeat.
Speaking of gutting, life could get exciting here tonight.
My dad and my hubby were both up on the ridge trying to get another deer each before the season ends when the neighbor came flying through the field on an ATV.
Last I heard, dad was ‘having a talk with him’.
I love a good hillbilly feud.
It’s been years since a local boy shot at my uncle over a downed buck.
Been pretty boring since that.
I should walk out in the yard and see if anything crazy is going on down the lane.
[ain’t much else to do in the mountains on a Friday night]
LOL
Uh-oh-I hope no one gets hurt-no hunting allowed here, because the neighborhoods are considered subdivisions, even if they include 50 acre ranches, likr the one at the end of the road. We’ve had a poacher or two sneak in over the years, but most have been caught and dealt with rather harshly by irate neighbors before they called the game warden to take them away-the deer here are fed by all of us, and tame, so if I want to have venison, I have to find another place to hunt and pay to do so-too expensive...
The Bison/domestic cow cross was called “beefalo” here, but they did not breed well-a lot of cows miscarried, and many hybrid calves tended to be infertile. After awhile, people stopped crossing the two and started just using the Bison for meat on its own.