Pictures around the ranch

[Whispering Winds]

They are just beautiful, but those horns!!!!! They have such cute faces! But those horns!!!!!

 

[protodon]

I looked it up and they are from north africa but are now extinct in the wild.

 

[spectrumranch]

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The full name is Scimitar Horned Oryx, they are an African antelope.

That is soo AWESUM I want some where did you get those???? I want them lol! Do you need a liscence to keep those things???

We have several friends that raise them also. License would depend on your state.

We have a few types of Antelope, and have had others over the years. The young one in the first photo is a bottlefed baby, a few months old.

The other photos are some young adults, that we put together to start a new herd.​

 

[Birch Run Farm]

Do you have any muntjac or blackbuck?

 

[the Pollo Loco]

MomtoSyd&Emma :

So gorgeous, but I swear I would be wearing protective eye gear in there with them lol

I would not want to be around those horns!!!! I don't know of any "protective eye gear" that would be able to protect me from those long pointy horns!!!

 

[spectrumranch]

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Yes we have both. Blackbuck are an Indian Antelope. Muntjacs are little deer.

Young Blackbuck male:

 

[spectrumranch]

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I would not want to be around those horns!!!! I don't know of any "protective eye gear" that would be able to protect me from those long pointy horns!!!

They are no problem, as long as you do not bottle fed the males.

Here is a young Eland male he about eats out of the bucket when I feed:

 

[the Pollo Loco]

do you raise them to show or to eat?

 

[spectrumranch]

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Neither- just to have cause I like them. But we do use some of them in a friend's zoo.

 

[Morri]

How did you get into owning these exotic species?? When I get a bigger farm I would love to get some animals like that although because im in australia my options would probably be different?? Just how did you start off?? Very very interesting...