I agree. If a person puts up a high fence and puts animals in it then the animals are their responsibility to manage and care for those animals the best he can. Sadly such is not always the case. Things can be done to minimize deaths of exotics from a winter event like we just experienced but it takes immediate planned action and lots of work. Many of the high fence ranches in the hill country are owned by absentee land owners who do not live on the ranches.
I am sure many of them probably were unable to travel to the ranches to try and save their animals......my heart goes out to them.
I have a neighbor that lives in Houston who owns the ranch next to ours......He called me as to what to do for his blackbuck and then he travelled for 12 hours to get to his ranch from Houston and spent five days feeding and making sure they were up and moving......I commend him for his efforts and he was rewarded by not loosing a known animal.
Free ranging is a different story as its hard for the low fence rancher to take on that responsibility for animals that he did not put on his place to begin with.
I hate to see any of them die in that bad sort of way.
I am sure many of them probably were unable to travel to the ranches to try and save their animals......my heart goes out to them.
I have a neighbor that lives in Houston who owns the ranch next to ours......He called me as to what to do for his blackbuck and then he travelled for 12 hours to get to his ranch from Houston and spent five days feeding and making sure they were up and moving......I commend him for his efforts and he was rewarded by not loosing a known animal.
Free ranging is a different story as its hard for the low fence rancher to take on that responsibility for animals that he did not put on his place to begin with.
I hate to see any of them die in that bad sort of way.