What is this animal? It's running wild and free in Oklahoma.

sage5907 · Jan 7, 2017

This animal showed up on my game camera in December and comes often for corn. I don't know whether it's domestic or some kind of exotic. There are no goats or sheep in the general area. It's the size and color of a deer and I think it's a goat but I'm not sure. Help me out. Thanks.

Raybj · Jan 7, 2017

sage5907 said:
This animal showed up on my game camera in December and comes often for corn. I don't know whether it's domestic or some kind of exotic. There are no goats or sheep in the general area. It's the size and color of a deer and I think it's a goat but I'm not sure. Help me out. Thanks.

Raybj · Jan 7, 2017

I think it is an aoudad.
Kind of a trophy some places I think.

Patocazador · Jan 7, 2017

Raybj is right.
I used to have a game farm. I bought an aoudad male from a dealer. They delivered it at 8:00 AM. By 10:00 AM it had scaled/jumped my 8' high fence and was spotted 5 miles south of my place headed for a 41,000 acre state forest. I never bought another.

Check Oklahoma's game laws, if they are similar to Florida's, it is legal to harvest any exotic anytime on private land.

rondog · Jan 7, 2017

Looks like a tasty trophy to me.....

sage5907 · Jan 7, 2017

Thanks guys, I told my wife I thought that it could be an aoudad. There is a ranch about 50 miles SW that turned some exotic animals loose. Maybe it's one of them. Looking at the shape of the animal especially the horns I would guess it's a female. It fits right in with the deer, turkeys, hogs, etc, and I don't plan on shooting it. It has wheat, alfalfa, milo & corn to eat so it should do fine. May be fun to watch.

Skeet 25 · Jan 7, 2017

Good for you.

Dog Soldier · Jan 7, 2017

Well what ever you call a goat it is still a goat. Wait till spring and invite your neighbors over for BBQ'ed goat. They will patch you roof and mend your fences for years to come. :rofl:

Armored farmer · Jan 7, 2017

The only true BBQ goat I ever had could have been used to patch a roof.
The patch would last for years.

der Teufel · Jan 7, 2017

Hmmm, sounds to me as if I'd probably want Dog Soldier to be cooking the goat rather than kbbailey's buddies!

Armored farmer · Jan 7, 2017

That depends on your roof.

SoonerMedic · Jan 7, 2017

Definitely a Barbary Sheep.....not a goat. Sheep.....some of them can become freakin' massive too!

ironworkerwill · Jan 7, 2017

100% goat. Shoot, eat, enjoy!

Dog Soldier · Jan 7, 2017

Well, BBQ'ed Cabra is a Western thing. It is considered a special fiesta.

Art Eatman · Jan 7, 2017

An aoudad is a sheep. Barbary sheep. But for the horns, it's much like the desert bighorn. Bunches of them in Presidio, Jeff Davis and Brewster Counties, in Texas. Also up in the Panhandle; SFAIK, Palo Duro Canyon and northward.

rondog · Jan 7, 2017

The OK DOW might feel differently about a non-native species moving in and creating a new population....... whoever turned them loose needs to answer for it.

H&Hhunter · Jan 7, 2017

Not a true sheep or a goat. Classified as as goat/antelope.

Here is a pretty easily understandable description.

https://gothunts.com/history-of-aoudad-in-texas/

Dog Soldier · Jan 7, 2017

My concern is how big the critter is? That way I can figure how much mesquite and Bourbon I will need to slow cook it?

ms6852 · Jan 7, 2017

Dog Soldier said:
My concern is how big the critter is? That way I can figure how much mesquite and Bourbon I will need to slow cook it?

Normally takes 4 bottles of bourbon.

sage5907 · Jan 7, 2017

Art Eatman, this animal could very have well came from the panhandle of Texas. During the severe dry weather that the panhandle has experienced many mule deer moved down the South Canadian and the North Canadian Rivers into Oklahoma, and the aoudad could have followed the same route. I looked up H&Hhunter's post and it says that Texas has 25,000 animals, but I know now they are missing one! I wonder if they eat sage like a mule deer or antelope?

Dog Soldier · Jan 7, 2017

ms6852, Four bottles of Woodford Reserve? I would be slow cooked before the Cabra.

LoonWulf · Jan 8, 2017

They taste bad, and i eat feral goats....bunch used to be in the game park behind our shrimp farm on molokai. I watched one walk up a 9" game fence till it bent then flop over and out. I woulda shot that one (id been asked to shoot any escaped animals if i saw them), but i was working and my gun was in the truck. Good thing i didnt too it must have weighted 200lbs. A buddy shot one hunting another area and we tried to eat it.....fail.

H&Hhunter · Jan 8, 2017

The ones I've killed in New Mexico have been tough but the flavor was mild.

H&Hhunter · Jan 8, 2017

sage5907 said:
Art Eatman, this animal could very have well came from the panhandle of Texas. During the severe dry weather that the panhandle has experienced many mule deer moved down the South Canadian and the North Canadian Rivers into Oklahoma, and the aoudad could have followed the same route. I looked up H&Hhunter's post and it says that Texas has 25,000 animals, but I know now they are missing one! I wonder if they eat sage like a mule deer or antelope?

They are a browser. They love to eat Cholla cactus and I've seen them browsing the leaves of all kinds of desert plants and small trees. They also love to eat juniper berries.

gojuice101 · Jan 8, 2017

I'm jealous of ya'll out west. Got all kinds of animals running around. Here we got deer, squirrels, a few coyotes, and an occasional bear passing through. No boars (yet, apparently they're in southeast VA), no elk, no funky sheep things.

I really, really need to move out west...

What is this animal? It's running wild and free in Oklahoma.

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