Calgary Stampede Rodeo, Animal Welfare, and Livestock Producer Reaction « Agr... - 3 views
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Ruehl Kerner on 16 Feb 12Someone should smack this person. I may not be politically correct all the time, but it seems as though people only critisize something they know very little about.
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The downside to that is every time we give an inch and try to work with animal welfare groups, they take a mile and make it seem like we are guilty.
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It is called natural selection and back in 1859, Charles Darwin began to document that the preservation of the species was based on Natural Selection. This still holds true today. If it were not for the option for ranchers to sell these cattle to rodeo livestock producers, the alternative would be certain death. Natural selection of rodeo livestock started when rodeo started and has evolved to include semen sexing, embryo transfer and cloning!
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Rodeo livestock lives better than most people; certainly their breeders and owners. Regular, premium feed, and even bottled water in some cases, help to preserve the animals by keeping them comfortable, hydrated and able to perform to their ability. For these and other reasons it is a fact that many bulls today are marked and sold for six figures! They are as valuable as a prized thoroughbred race horse yet one does not see the Kentucky Derby, Preakness or Belmont being limited or eliminated.