Do we need to have this thread every couple of days now? Like I said last time, we have. They've been domesticated for millennia. What do you think reindeer are?

Why haven't we domesticated deer except for rendeer?

heh

Let's talk about deer.

>>5146764
>>5146768
The main reason is that people domesticated three other ruminants first (cattle, sheep, goats) and between those three there wasn't really a niche for raising most deer as well. Pretty much any food a deer can eat could also be eaten by those other ruminants. And most deer species are a pain to keep captive, due to how high they can jump; keeping them penned before cheap barbed wire would have been expensive. The one deer species that was properly domesticated (reindeer) is larger and easier to keep contained than most other deer, and do have a clear advantage in very cold environments over the cattle/sheep/goat trio, giving them a useful niche.

Now that deer are being raised in captivity (viable since new tech like barbed & electric wire make keeping them penned cost effective, and markets have enough demand for non-standard meats that hunting wild game can't reliably supply) I expect them to be domesticated in a couple hundred years.

>>5146778
Fun fact: reindeer cannot eat carrots because they lack top teeth. They can only eat soft grasses and leaves.

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>>5146764
We have with Reindeer
>ok but why not other deer
Deer were historically hard to contain as they can leap over tall fences. They're also susceptible to capture myopathy, where extreme stress can cause muscle damage and lead to death. So even if you manage to contain a deer it might die simply from the stress after being caught