Emperor - Stag Shot Dead

The stag was reported to be 12 years old, so presumably there have been many crops of fawns from him, therefore the genes of this animal have been passed to the herd. If the meat has been used, can anyone tell me the difference between shooting deer and using the venison and shooting rabbits, as a means of pest control and for the pot?
 
A lot of anger against, some people defending the actions of an anonymous hunter.

Both have fair points. What puzzles me is the fact he or she couldn't hold on for month or so to let him pass on his line one more time. Despite the rut only starting, strangely enough they decided he 'had' to be killed several days after he was pictured in a paper, co-incidentally. Plenty of months before to cull him, it would make far more sense, but no.

Why?
 
yorksG said:
The stag was reported to be 12 years old, so presumably there have been many crops of fawns from him, therefore the genes of this animal have been passed to the herd. If the meat has been used, can anyone tell me the difference between shooting deer and using the venison and shooting rabbits, as a means of pest control and for the pot?
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I think you've answered your own question. Who actively kills a twelve year old deer for their meat? Is it even edible? Please, I'm an amateur and would really like to know.

Pfft.
 
montyforever said:
Im not trying to start an arguement i agree its wrong to just be killed for no good reason! But people do like to just go out and shoot things, so its always going to happen :( Especially as its legal.

I absolutly love deer and like i put above get to see them very often on the farm very close which i love, i just dont agree that an extra big deer should be treated any different from the stag on the farm im at for example, if he was killed for a trophy nobody would care!
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If you go to Challock Forest,between Ashford and Faversham,at this time of year MF it is possible if you are savvy to creep up on wild fallow ...in there are sometimes pure white males.

They are so preoccupied right now it is ,with the wind direction right,to get up within 25 yards of them. fantastic animals.
 
EAST KENT said:
If you go to Challock Forest,between Ashford and Faversham,at this time of year MF it is possible if you are savvy to creep up on wild fallow ...in there are sometimes pure white males.

They are so preoccupied right now it is ,with the wind direction right,to get up within 25 yards of them. fantastic animals.
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Ah i'll have to go up there at some point :D
Would love to see them in the wild, the ones on the farm are captive not sure why?? Could be meat im not sure but its only a small herd but they are very friendly. Ive not seen any fawns though, what time of year are they normally born?

Some of the ones on the farm ..

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(Rubbish pics but you get the idea :D)
 
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I fond it ironic that LACS are making mileage out of this story. There methods of deer management leave something to be desired. Letting them get so overcrowded that they become riddled with worms and TB. Letting deer drop dead after choking their lungs out from lungworm is hardly welfare friendly.

Dead deer on the LACS sanctuary:

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And at least the emperor has presumably ended up in a freezer. This is one of two concrete bunker where they stored corpses prior to disposal:

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What the LACS & the Countryside Alliance opinions are on this killing is irrelevant. The simple fact is that some knobcheese - either for financial gain or notoriety or both, has killed a magnificent animal, probably to order, so that some antiquated old fart can display its head on his mock Tudor mansion wall.
 
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