New one in the Road sunday

[Joezilla]

I thought I had seen it all as far as annoying mammals i would have to nudge off the road around here, including sheep. Then this thing jumps out in front of my car. I think it is a Corsican Ram, though the horns look a little inset. Does anyone know sheep? I don't think this is a derivative of a domestic wool sheep. It was tagged so I know it was an escapee. I tried to go grab it but it quickly evaded me to go check out the neighbor's Goat/lawnmower they have tied to a tree.

and after all that, I still had to shoo off a cow that was on the road this morning to work. I will always travel with a camera in the car. I'm waiting for the bear shot! Yo neccisito Sjambok!

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[dipbait]

Hes cool. Looks like a goat with sheep horns.

 

[silenthunterstudios]

I thought I had seen it all as far as annoying mammals i would have to nudge off the road around here, including sheep. Then this thing jumps out in front of my car. I think it is a Corsican Ram, though the horns look a little inset. Does anyone know sheep? I don't think this is a derivative of a domestic wool sheep. It was tagged so I know it was an escapee. I tried to go grab it but it quickly evaded me to go check out the neighbor's Goat/lawnmower they have tied to a tree.

and after all that, I still had to shoo off a cow that was on the road this morning to work. I will always travel with a camera in the car. I'm waiting for the bear shot! Yo neccisito Sjambok!

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Joe, I don't think the bear will appreciate the sjambok .

 

[hlee]

Mouflan sheep.

From Wikipedia...

"The mouflon is thought to be one of the two ancestors for all modern domestic sheep breeds.[3][4] It is red-brown with a dark back-stripe, light colored saddle patch and underparts... Today mouflon inhabit the Caucasus, northern Iraq, and northwestern Iran. Originally the range stretched further to Anatolia, the Crimean peninsula and the Balkans, where they had already disappeared 3,000 years ago. Mouflon were introduced to the islands of Corsica, Sardinia, Rhodes and Cyprus during the neolithic period, perhaps as feral domesticated animals, where they have naturalized in the mountainous interiors of these islands over the past few thousand years, giving rise to the subspecies known as European mouflon (O. aries musimon)..."

They are fairly popular as exotic game species here in the states.

 

[Joezilla]

Damnit! I had my .40 with me and missed my chance for my first kill! (Not really, I would hate to explain to someone why I killed their pet) Thanks for the info hlee!

 

[Rupestris]

Don't know the exact breed. Looks a lot like Tim the Enchanter though.

 

[dipbait]

Answer these three questions and yee shall pass.

 

[hlee]

I had an opportunity to go on a hunt a couple of year ago for one of these guys. I did a bit of research on the web and talked to the landowner. Turns out that the landowners wanted to get them off of the property (they out-compete the deer for resources, and that is bad for business on a game ranch in Texas), but the sheep are so wary that they are generally extremely difficult to get into range of. I passed on the hunt, but am still struck by the beauty of these animals.

 

[cmdionne]

Not sure about the laws in NC, but I'm pretty sure that in MI any sort of exotic cervid (a mouflon is not a cervid though) can be taken as long as it has escaped for more than 48 hours at any time of year with any valid hunting license. I'm not sure how we're expected to know how long the animal has escaped for though.

 

[FortyTwoBlades]

Probably more of a law to keep you from getting the book thrown at you for shooting someone's pet.

 

[moonwilson]

Joe, I don't think the bear will appreciate the sjambok .

If you do get a chance to smack a bear with a sjambok, please make sure to set up the video camera first. :thumbup:

I don't know if I'd be terribly interested in messing around with that sheep either. That fella looks like he could hand out a bit of a nudge with those horns. Very cool critter!

 

[lungcutter]

You should have shot th goat. BBQ goat is the best!

 

[Ebbtide]

Nice knife handles there Joe

 

[vector001]

snare.


....luau....


burp.

vec

 

[Joezilla]

Nice knife handles there Joe

EXACTLY what I was thinking. I was going to cut the horns off and use him as a lawn mower. I actually did run after him for a bit. I didn't really have a plan, but I did have a bungee cord and i figured I could side step and grab those horns... He completely evaded me despite my attempt to tire him out with the car.

 

[Bushman5]

mmmm....i see lots of dinner there, a nice jacket or three, horn drinking cups......

 

[machinest]

i think its a barbado ram. a coworker raises these.

 

[Joezilla]

whatever it is, I hope to see it again!

 

[hlee]

It is more likely a barbado, as it has a black underbelly and not the white underbelly of the mouflon. Additionally, the saddle is much more muted on the sheep in question than on a mouflon. It also has the shaggy mane that is absent on the mouflon. I'd bet a quarter that the two species are closely related.

When I was a kid I deer hunted on a ranch outside of Brady, Texas and the property owner- in addition to cattle- had a large flock of barbado sheep. The kids, apparently, bring better money per pound than calves, and they need significantly less owner intervention to raise. The property owner shot one of the younger sheep (they were pretty darned wild) one hunt and we barbequed him. They are tasty, and much more tender than a deer of similar age.

Attached is a pic of a barbado ram. They can have quite impressive horns, that often curl more than one full turn.