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RoperAB
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PostPosted: Sat May 20, 2006 9:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Laughing Try fencing for Elk!
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Faster horses
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PostPosted: Sat May 20, 2006 10:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
There are a LOT of antelope in that country. They DO eat forage besides browse. They can do a lot of damage alfalfa fields in the fall. They are like a band of sheep, okay GOATS because that is what they are.

What made you think all they ate was browse? Did you read that somewhere. I really am not being smart, just wondered where you got that idea. There is a lot of false information out there about wildlife.

A few antelope might not be a problem, too many of them IS THE PROBLEM.


And don't get the idea I hate them, because I don't. I think they are beautiful animals. But when you are the one feeding a bunch of them, I wouldn't like it either.
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PostPosted: Sat May 20, 2006 10:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I agree with FH!!! No matter how many hunters we let on here each season, those danged old antelope seem to manage to reproduce worse than rabbits Shocked !! For each one a hunter tags, two more seem to sprout outta nowhere and they wreak havoc on the alfalfa fields and on our fences Mad !!! Only ever seen the hubby say "no" to a few folks who asked to hunt antelope out here....one was OBVIOUSLY "stoned" on something smokable, but probably illegal and the other one did not have a valid license for montana!! Other than that, they have always been welcome!!
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PostPosted: Sun May 21, 2006 8:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Faster horses wrote:
There are a LOT of antelope in that country. They DO eat forage besides browse. They can do a lot of damage alfalfa fields in the fall. They are like a band of sheep, okay GOATS because that is what they are.

What made you think all they ate was browse? Did you read that somewhere. I really am not being smart, just wondered where you got that idea. There is a lot of false information out there about wildlife.

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I got the impression they ate mostly browse because of where you see them. Example There can be an irrigated alfalfa field on the one side of the road and no antelope on it but on the other side of the road where its basically desert with just old sage brush and tumble weeds and there you will see all the antelope. I have noticed this time and time again when driving in WY and MT.
Like I said before im no antelope expert. We dont have antelope in SW Alberta. I have only hunted them once in my life. But why do we have antelope east of here and no antelope where I live? I just guessed it was because our range was to good for them. To much lush grass up to your stirrups. Not enough old brush and weeds around here for antelope Wink
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PostPosted: Sun May 21, 2006 9:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yes really In Alta you mainly see them southeast in that area where its dryer and hardly any treed areas.I thought the same as Roper,they've started showing up here once in a while but we've had a few years of drought now. And you want to see ananimal tear fences,One moose can take a chunk of fence,quarter mile wide and somtimes likes to chase horses and eat leaves off the trees in yard Sad
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PostPosted: Mon May 22, 2006 9:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Boy if you run into a moose cow with calves-get the heck away from her-way worse than a sow bear for sure. Surprised nobody in farm country has had a wreck with the moose that have moved in lately.
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PostPosted: Mon May 22, 2006 9:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
any moose that ate a tree in my yard would wind up in my freezer Wink
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PostPosted: Mon May 22, 2006 9:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
A moose in Texas now that would be funny-there's been a few tamed over the years up here-pretty cool critters to see up close. Those old cows get real protective-when thge hair flares up on their back trouble is coming. My wife and two oldest kids had a close one-I'd dropped them off to fish while I went to A'I a cow-pretty much in town limits-a calf moose wandered out and they were stuck there with no vehicle to hide in-they ran it off across the creek before mamma showed up.
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PostPosted: Tue May 23, 2006 2:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Antelope tear up the fence because they don't jump it. They always crawl under if they can or a group will run through it. Smile
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theHiredMansWife
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PostPosted: Tue May 23, 2006 2:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
RoperAB wrote:
I got the impression they ate mostly browse because of where you see them. Example There can be an irrigated alfalfa field on the one side of the road and no antelope on it but on the other side of the road where its basically desert with just old sage brush and tumble weeds and there you will see all the antelope. I have noticed this time and time again when driving in WY and MT.
Like I said before im no antelope expert. We dont have antelope in SW Alberta. I have only hunted them once in my life. But why do we have antelope east of here and no antelope where I live? I just guessed it was because our range was to good for them. To much lush grass up to your stirrups. Not enough old brush and weeds around here for antelope Wink


Most of the places I've lived that had goatalopes would feed them out on winter wheat. They really seemed to enjoy that stuff... Wink
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RoperAB
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PostPosted: Tue May 23, 2006 10:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Northern Rancher wrote:
Boy if you run into a moose cow with calves-get the heck away from her-way worse than a sow bear for sure. Surprised nobody in farm country has had a wreck with the moose that have moved in lately.


A friend of mine was a cook in a restaurant in Sundre AB. This was in the winter and she had to walk to work real early in the morning in the dark. This was right in down town Sundre. She went down an alley way and a lone moose was in the alley. Anyway I dont know but I think she scared the moose. The moose was facing her when she startled it. Anyway the moose ran her down and kept on going. Broke the womans leg.
It was actually I funny story but you all would have to know the woman that it happened to to get the Joke.
Anyway your right Northern about cows with calves. I could tell lots of stories about them.
Most of their victims are idiots in Banff and Jasper. They dont want to scare off the tourests so they dont publicize it much. That Alberta Game Warden magazine is interesting reading.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 2:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hey drop me an email. I know of some people that would be willing to let you hunt goats. Especially if you want to bow hunt. Address is lodgepole35@hotmail.com
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