As part of the annual Creedmoor Oktoberfest, Texas Disposal Systems opens up their exotic game ranch for tours. TDS provides a home for more than 2,000 animals (100-plus species) with many of them on them endangered species list. Hunting is not allowed on the TDS Exotic Game Ranch.

Last year I showed up too late in the day at Oktoberfest and missed the tour. This year I made sure I was on the first bus, camera in hand. It’s an abbreviated tour and we didn’t get to see all the areas or all the animals, but there were plenty of exotic game in the pastures we drove through.
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A Blackbuck antelope, from the Indian subcontinent.

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Common Eland bull.

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Eld’s deer.

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Scimitar Horned Oryx. Our TDS guide, Wayne, said that none of these animals live in Africa anymore; they’ve been hunted to extinction there.