What animals are considered livestock?

[Antlers86]

You do not need a license or a tag to kill an exotic but in the state of Texas you do need a hunting license to be in the woods with a gun. I guess that it is because it is hard to prove if you are hunting or not and hard to prove what you are hunting for. I have a high fence place and carry a lifetime so I don't have an issue.

Uh yes you do.

https://tpwd.texas.gov/publications/...ailed_deer.pdf

Those documents are talking about MLD tags for whitetail and Mule and have nothing to do with exotic game.

https://tpwd.texas.gov/regulations/outdoor-annual/hunting/nongame-and-other-species

[slicktricker]

Those documents are talking about MLD tags for whitetail and Mule and have nothing to do with exotic game.

I hope Antlers cleared the record enough for you.

[Hunter Dan]

I hope Antlers cleared the record enough for you.

It's funny, I think I said that you have to have a license in the state of texas to be in the woods with a gun. Since I own a high fence ranch and a taxidermy shop I also know very well that you do not have to show a license or tag to have exotic game processed.

[RiverRat1]

So is everything all cleared up now? LOL

[slicktricker]

It's funny, I think I said that you have to have a license in the state of texas to be in the woods with a gun. Since I own a high fence ranch and a taxidermy shop I also know very well that you do not have to show a license or tag to have exotic game processed.

You do not need a license or a tag to kill an exotic .
Hate to inform you but this is actually what you said. The discussion had nothing to do with processed game.

[Hunter Dan]

You do not need a license or a tag to kill an exotic .
Hate to inform you but this is actually what you said. The discussion had nothing to do with processed game.

6 of one half dozen of the other. If you needed a license to kill exotic game you would have to show it when turning the game in at the processor. Since the state of texas doesn't own the game they can't require a license to kill them. But like I said you do have to have a license to hunt them because you are in the woods with a gun.

[slicktricker]

6 of one half dozen of the other. If you needed a license to kill exotic game you would have to show it when turning the game in at the processor. Since the state of texas doesn't own the game they can't require a license to kill them. But like I said you do have to have a license to hunt them because you are in the woods with a gun.

Huh?

[Greenheadless]

So, if I was to carry my 7mag to the field, hunt a Wagyu steer, dump some sweet feed into a trough, and wait for him to show up to eat, then ten ring him behind the shoulder, I don’t need a license?

Asking for a friend.

[Antlers86]

6 of one half dozen of the other. If you needed a license to kill exotic game you would have to show it when turning the game in at the processor. Since the state of texas doesn't own the game they can't require a license to kill them. But like i said you do have to have a license to hunt them because you are in the woods with a gun.

smh

[30-30]

It’s pretty clear to most of us, and most game wardens, what the difference is between hunting exotic game and slaughtering livestock... If you hunt exotics, you need a license. It’s not a new law.

[Hunting4fun]

6 of one half dozen of the other. If you needed a license to kill exotic game you would have to show it when turning the game in at the processor. Since the state of texas doesn't own the game they can't require a license to kill them. But like I said you do have to have a license to hunt them because you are in the woods with a gun.

So if you hunt them in an urban area you don't need a license?

[Hunter Dan]

So if you hunt them in an urban area you don't need a license?

Well that would be entertaining. But what if I penned a bunch of my game and put them down with a bolt pistol for my own reasons, would the game warden ask for my hunting license. This is why I don't understand governor Abbott taking away the need for a license to hunt hogs. If a game warden catches you hunting without a license you are in trouble.

[RiverRat1]

So to sum up exotics are livestock and labeled livestock exotics.
You need a license to hunt one unless you own them then you do not need a license. The State requires a license but has nothing to do with them.

So they are not livestock but they are not game animals. The State does not own them.

So it's not poaching when someone illegally shoots one. So what is it just theft?

From Wiki
"Poaching has been defined as the illegal hunting or capturing of wild animals, usually associated with land use rights. ... Stealing livestock as in cattle raiding classifies as theft, not as poaching."

[DeerGhostSpeaks]

What animals are considered livestock?

Well that would be entertaining. But what if I penned a bunch of my game and put them down with a bolt pistol for my own reasons, would the game warden ask for my hunting license. This is why I don't understand governor Abbott taking away the need for a license to hunt hogs. If a game warden catches you hunting without a license you are in trouble.

I’m confused on this but have another hypothetical, if an exotic escapes a high fence property and then roams around the outskirts of an urban area, is it poaching if someone in a neighborhood shot it when it got just far enough away


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[donpablo]

I’m confused on this but have another hypothetical, if an exotic escapes a high fence property and then roams around the outskirts of an urban area, is it poaching if someone in a neighborhood shot it when it got just far enough away


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Actually if it is conspicuously tagged (or something like that) you're not supposed to shoot it. That being said, most people who realize this would remove said tag before taking LDPs. The really smart ones would not post on social media. LOL.