[Sca-cooks] GHHandmaide was Deer Gelding

[Terry Decker]

> Terry Decker wrote:
>
>>While I haven't gone over the evidence, there are some experts who hold 
>>that
>>the deer is now a domesticated animal due to the commercial breeding in 
>>New
>>Zealand.
>>
>>
>
> Deer farming in NZ is actually fairly extensive.
>
> -- 
> Adele de Maisieres

You can farm animals without domestication, as Charlie Goodnight did with 
bison.  I believe the key point of the deer domestication argument is the 
New Zealand farmers are doing selective breeding for domestic attributes, 
but I need to find and read the papers to be sure.

Bear