Bison

[JockCroft]

Just at morning cuppa, and BBC breakfast feature.
Scientist's are promoting Bison as the answer to conservation, biodiversity and CARBON CAPTURE.

A new profitable venture opportunity.
Where can I get a starter herd?. Lets not miss the bus.

How do I start a crowdfunding appeal to raise the dosh? It worked for Buffalo farming.

Got the trees, got the grass. Will one electric fence wire hold them in or will it take a second wire?

 

[choochter]

6 of them on 50 ha

 

[Tim G]

How do they differ from our more conventional bovines that are blamed for climate change?

 

[ladycrofter]

How do they differ from our more conventional bovines that are blamed for climate change?

They can kill more of those annoying polluting humans at once than a cow can? Have you been near them? Proper massive ice ages units. And not very bright.

 

[Jackov Altraids]

How do they differ from our more conventional bovines that are blamed for climate change?

 

[AftonShepherd]

Just at morning cuppa, and BBC breakfast feature.
Scientist's are promoting Bison as the answer to conservation, biodiversity and CARBON CAPTURE.

A new profitable venture opportunity.
Where can I get a starter herd?. Lets not miss the bus.

How do I start a crowdfunding appeal to raise the dosh? It worked for Buffalo farming.

Got the trees, got the grass. Will one electric fence wire hold them in or will it take a second wire?

Remember you need someone waiting in the wings to bail you out the first time it goes tits up

 

[Kiwi Pete]

How do they differ from our more conventional bovines that are blamed for climate change?

They don't serve up bison steaks.

And, they probably don't need food brought to their houses the same

 

[pycoed]

I've just finished reading a biography of Charles Goodnight an early cattle trail blazer in Texas/NM/Colorado etc. He reckoned the southern bison herd (there was also a northern one) was 125-150 miles long by 20 - 25 miles wide That's an awful lot of farts causing global warming eh?

 

[Muddyroads]

Just at morning cuppa, and BBC breakfast feature.
Scientist's are promoting Bison as the answer to conservation, biodiversity and CARBON CAPTURE.

A new profitable venture opportunity.
Where can I get a starter herd?. Lets not miss the bus.

How do I start a crowdfunding appeal to raise the dosh? It worked for Buffalo farming.

Got the trees, got the grass. Will one electric fence wire hold them in or will it take a second wire?

There’s a big difference between a bison and a buffalo.

You can’t wash your hands in a buffalo!

 

[Rossymons]

There’s a big difference between a bison and a buffalo.

You can’t wash your hands in a buffalo!

You can't hoover the house with a buffalo neither

 

[JockCroft]

Remember you need someone waiting in the wings to bail you out the first time it goes tits up

I thought it sounded easy to milk the punter, stash the cash, go plop, then do a phoenix.

 

[AftonShepherd]

I thought it sounded easy to milk the punter, stash the cash, go plop, then do a phoenix.

When you put it like that, where do I sign up?

 

[JockCroft]

When you put it like that, where do I sign up?

There's a guy in Fife can explain it best.

 

[Woolless]

They don't serve up bison steaks.

And, they probably don't need food brought to their houses the same

They are farmed to a certain extent in the US, I believe. Some native american tribes are getting them reintroduced to their land, which is a great thing.

 

[Woolless]

How do they differ from our more conventional bovines that are blamed for climate change?

I honestly don't think that some of these reporters realise that both species are ruminants. Hence the reintroduction of bison is cheered as part of rewilding but cattle are still demonised as destroying the earth (although admittedly the management of a lot of cattle is a long way from bison).

 

[ringi]

Country File last weekend haf a nice report of a farmer doing the same with cattle using mod grazing in woodland. I can't see what the bison give that cattle can't do with the same management.

 

[unlacedgecko]

There's a guy in Fife can explain it best.

Not me. The other Fife fly by night cowboy.

 

[unlacedgecko]

They don't serve up bison steaks.

They do. Ted Turner (owner of CNN) has the largest owned herd of bison in the US.

I was on RFP with one of his employees. Meat is supplied to a variety of selected retail and wholesale outfits.

And, they probably don't need food brought to their houses the same

When farmed they're fed hay and other harvested forages. They don't do so well in a feedlot environment though.

 

[unlacedgecko]

I honestly don't think that some of these reporters realise that both species are ruminants. Hence the reintroduction of bison is cheered as part of rewilding but cattle are still demonised as destroying the earth (although admittedly the management of a lot of cattle is a long way from bison).

This a self congratulatory circle jerk aimed at harvesting tax payer money.

 

[unlacedgecko]

Just at morning cuppa, and BBC breakfast feature.
Scientist's are promoting Bison as the answer to conservation, biodiversity and CARBON CAPTURE.

A new profitable venture opportunity.
Where can I get a starter herd?. Lets not miss the bus.

How do I start a crowdfunding appeal to raise the dosh? It worked for Buffalo farming.

Got the trees, got the grass. Will one electric fence wire hold them in or will it take a second wire?

A dangerous animal licence is required in the UK, similar to that needed to farm wild boar.