In before the Michelle Obama post.
Hen3ry (the 3 was silent) majored in animal husbandry, until they caught him at it one day...
The term “animal husbandry” always reminds me now of this gem from the Florida senate a few years back:
http://jonathanturley.org/2009/03/13/florida-senator-raises-alarm-over-animal-husbandry/
In before the sister joke.
This does not bode well for the moose. The human race managed to reproduce successfully for millennia, until in the last century, when the government decided that it needed to get involved, things went to pot. The government can mess anything up.
On the other hand, if I lived in Nova Scotia (or PEI), I would be perfectly happy to leave the moose to New Brunswick, Quebec, Newfoundland, and Ontario. Lord knows they aren’t endangered and they are very hard on vehicles, though they are also tasty.
If there is a need to have them everywhere and have them close, maybe they can open sanctuaries for them in Halifax and on some university campuses.
Wait a minute.
They are hoping to encourage the breeding of moose, so the moose will reproduce, and increase their numbers???
But, that is “hetero-normative”.
What about the gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, and transgendered moose??? What about their rights? What about accomodations for them???
Can we educate Muslims to check out the new ‘hot’ Northern Goat?
If they were promoting husbandry they would catch them young, pen them, raise them, milk them, and make $100 a pound Canadian Moose cheese! The only current source of moose cheese is Sweden, current output is about 200 pound a year or so. No, I do not know how you safely milk a moose unless you are already good friends with her.
What they are talking about is more accurately wildlife management or range management rather than husbandry.
I don’t know about Nova Scotia moose but I know that moose in Alaska suffer from severe predation from bears and wolves.
I have been told that in some areas Moose calf crops (% that live) are less than 20%.
Canada Ping!