Thread: Wild animal welfare

Leave this posting up to the animal experts on here?

Wild animal welfare or otherwise?




Photos of deseased chamoi with horn rot or otherwise normal genetics. Photos taken about 1974 period.



Move on from that time period to the present day chamoi hunter. Horn rot still a factor?

Still is around - shot a Chamois in the Lake Brunner area a couple of years ago that had horn rot.

One shot, clean kill, do `t leave all the meats behind is my principle.

I guess they loose the fight against the horny chamois( pun intended) and don’t get to reproduce and might even get eaten by the big bad wolf ( in Europe at least)…

If your post is just about horn rot - its definitely still about. I shot a cham nannie this year with one horn (the other wasn't too far off going either).

Cheers

To people on here in the know re animal genitics....

Ramblings and chit chat, the horn rot photos were taken in the Landsborough / Huxley areas.
As I wrote more or less on the other forum at one time.
Met a NZFS guy who went into the Landsborough in 1973 and saw some 500 animals for about a week.
An Austrailian chap and myself went in there about the same time period and saw about 150 animals.
A Dutch tourist and myself went in there 3 years later and saw only 14 animals in two weeks.... Helicopter pressure?



By memory... we flew into Toetoe Flat and the pilot took the doors of the plane, flew up the valley and had our air drops at Hinds Flat etc.
In the photo a hunter can be seen leaning against an air drop sack? The blurry chamoi photo in the top left was there amongst the horn rot animals... go figure?