[Sca-cooks] GHHandmaide was Deer Gelding
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net
Wed May 24 20:22:33 PDT 2006
> 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
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