I have become a Rancher

[Sourdough]

Congratulations! Can you tell us about the fencing required?

I'd prefer not to get into that as websites like this are being trolled be poachers looking for any information they can use to learn where Rhino ranches might be, including things as innocent as where to get fencing which of course they can use to narrow down their search.

 

[Sourdough]

CONGRTULATIONS! I think that is awesome and I sincerely hope it works out for you.

How big is the property you now have them on?

Do you have to have constant anti poaching patrols?

Hopefully in the future they make it legal and create a way that rhino ranchers can legally sell horns to help offset costs

I'd prefer not to get into that as websites like this are being trolled be poachers looking for any information they can use to learn where Rhino ranches might be. But great questions. Someday if the world ever pulls their collective head out of the collective you know what, maybe we won't have to worry about poachers as much. A great documentary, if you haven't seen it, is titled "Trophy" and was released in 2017. The Rhino rancher no longer has his Rhinos but you get to see and hear the challenges he faced.

 

[Green Chile]

One of the most gut wrenching things I have seen is the aftermath of a female rhino poached for her horn and the baby is trying to nurse afterwards....very dark...very wrong.

 

[Mort Hill]

Congrats on following your heart and your passion! I hope this endeavor can be updated from time to time so we can live vicariously through your journey. Kudos!

 

[Green Chile]

Thanks for posting this topic and you're right not to give out more info than necessary. We look forward to hearing updates as you can offer them in the future. Rhinos are like living dinosaurs to me...and we need to help them as you are doing. The parts I've been personally involved with are incredible memories and very worthwhile.

 

[thriller]

Congrats this is really cool

 

[CoElkHunter]

Awesome!

 

[Safari Dave]

Kudo's to you!


I'm a "rancher" with 3 only cows...

 

[Frederik]

Wishing you success and may the world come to its senses and allow trading and soon.

 

[franzfmdavis]

Very cool! Best of luck on an important project!

 

[AZDAVE]

Amazing, thank you for taking up the torch of helping protect and preserve these animals. Good job.

 

[Sourdough]

Just starting the purchase of six additional White Rhino, five dehorned males (including the one in the photo) and one female. That brings our total to nineteen. Pretty cool.

 

[Nevada Mike]

Congratulations. puts me in mind of an old friend who used collect locomotives.

 

[Rumrunner]

Way cool. When’s the rodeo? I want to watch the bronc busting and bull riding.

 

[Sourdough]

At the conclusion of my Botswana Leopard hunt I headed to South Africa to check on the Rhino. We saw most of 19, but they do not like it when people or vehicles approach (which is a good thing) so a lot of the pictures I took were from too far a distance to be worth showing here. But here are a few photos.

 

[Sourdough]

One of the things I really like about where they are now is there is so much plains game on the property that I get visions of Kenya and Tanganyika of old. Very cool.

 

[Russ16]

That’s very cool.

 

[deewayne2003]

I motion that we name the largest male Elvis.....

 

[PARA45]

Will these Rhinos be dehorned to keep them from being poached?

 

[Rafiki]

I have become a Rancher.

But of course I couldn't become a rancher in the normal way, like cattle or sheep or even ostriches. No. I became a Rhino Rancher. Yep, you heard it right.

Please excuse my ignorance on this but what are they going to eat/drink? I'm looking at a countryside that looks pretty spare of both graze and water. I'm not being critical, just genuinely curious.

The only thing that I really know about Rhino is the serious jeopardy that they are in largely because of the hardware that they wear on their face and people with more ignorance than I. I find them fascinating so I applaud you for your efforts at helping with their survival. The world would be a sadder place if the Rhino should only be known as an entry in a the book of extinct species.