As Bill Miller looks across his ranch that spreads out under the vast West Texas sky, a once-common sight has became a rarity: the pronghorn. “They’re just part of the landscape,” Miller said. “They should be there, and they’re not.” A symbol of the West, pronghorn have a body type somewhat like a deer with distinctive white stripes on their faces and necks and white markings that come halfway up their sides. The flash of white hair on their behinds stands on end to signal danger. The fastest land animal in North America, they can reach speeds close to 60 mph. And in West Texas, where desert grasslands give way to mountain ranges, their numbers are dropping, and researchers don’t yet know why. Miller can remember when as many as 100 pronghorn made their home on parts of his 33,000-acre ranch west of Valentine. This year, he estimates there are about 12. Pronghorn numbers in West Texas are at about 4,700 this year, down from about 6,000 last year, when good rains indicated that the numbers should have increased. After noticing the decline, researchers started talking to ranchers, who reported finding the majestic animals dead for no apparent reason...
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High levels of copper might be good for goats, but sheep die from levels that are too high.
It's obvious! People are putting out deer feed with animal protein in it in high hopes of growing bigger antlers for the big money trophy hunt sales. God did not intend for these vegetarian animals to consume animal parts. They are wasting in one way or another, whether it is lower birth rates, or chronic wasting disease, whatever, until people quit this hideous malady caused by this "unnamed source of protein" input, they are going to continue to wipe out deer, antelope, wild sheep, anything that each this commercial death.
This is not a mystery. This is humans with blindfolds on and they've spun around in circles too much. England started "Mad Cow Disease" by putting animal protein in cattle feed and, voila! You have festering, mutant inflammation in the animal-parts-consuming critters which God intended to be vegetarian! The amount of "protein-enriched" commercial feed being put out to feed wild animals should tell you all you need to know. Research the protein source on the package of every bit of feed being made accessible to the Pronghorn and get down on your knees and ask your God if you should be feeding these wild vegetarian creatures 10 to 20% animal by-products. They'll quit breeding, they'll waste away, they'll develop "wild antelope disease," and pretty soon, they be extinct. Good job, humans!
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