Aoudad in East Texas ?

[Buff]

Im thinking about buying a herd of them for our place up here north of Longview.
I have had awful luck getting Black Buck to live and have more disappear on me than we get killed hunting them so Im a little gun shy.
Nothing really makes you sadder than to realize you spent $30,000.00 on a trailer load of critters and a month later they are all gone, along with your money.

All the deer, Axis, Fallow, Sika do very well and I have had good luck so far with Water Buck and Oryx.

Im really want to buy a dozen or so Aoudad but about half the folks I talk to tell me they will get the foot rot and die. The other half say they will do great. My place is not swampy, pretty much white sugar sand and iron ore hills.

Has anyone tried to raise them in East Texas?
Thanks
Buff

[jimmyneutrontx]

White sand? Sweet my wife has always wanted to go to a place with white sand. She never said anything about it being a beach. Sounds like a win for me..... Lol

[Shane]

Do you have strong fences?

[buck_wild]

I heard hoof rot also is bad in that area for aoudad

[bfree]

they will tear up a high fence, hard to keep in a small area.

[catslayer]

Aoudad roam WAY worse than black buck from what I've been told... I know we have them on our place near coleman, and we have never seen a live one. Only caught in the fences dead

[Patton]

I imagine they would tear up a fence pretty dang good. On some of our feeder pens (hog panel) they have really bent them up. Not just pushing them in, almost like they have hooked their horns in it before because the pen is pushed outwards in some places

[Take Dead Aim]

They haven't caused any damage to our high fences. Not sure on how they will do in East Texas though. They are pretty hardy.

[bulltx50]

If you don't mind advice from a biologist/business man, spend your money on something else. Those big ole sheep will not fair well in East Texas.

[Buff]

If you don't mind advice from a biologist/business man, spend your money on something else. Those big ole sheep will not fair well in East Texas.

That is what I believe as well.
I was hoping some one might post they had had good luck with them