farmerjan
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I don't hate all wildlife. But I do hate a few... HATE Black Mexican Buzzards....they kill lambs and will get a calf when first born..... Raccoons that tear into chicken coops and randomly maime the chickens, chicks ....they killed for fun not food.... I collected 17 out of about 25 young show birds that they tore apart and left half alive with legs and wings torn up or half torn off.... ground hogs that tear up a good hay field and you drop a front end in and break a spindle on the tractor... the coyotes that we have killing the sheep and a few calves.... and any small dog or cat they can find around here. The feral cat population gets thinned every fall when there is a new litter of pups the parents bring around to teach to hunt. They went crazy 20 ft from the house, trying to get into my rabbits a few years ago....the bald eagles that carry off my free range hens ... lost 120 one year and gave up on the egg business because being free range, moving around the cattle pasture was what I had them for,,, did a great job of spreading the manure and had half the flies on the cattle and the free range eggs were what sold...
and the overpopulation of deer here.... Got my yearly deer with the truck a week ago on the way to work... busted signal light and lens, and the headlight doesn't work either now.... dented the fender.... over 40 a night in the barley field last fall/winter that we had cover crop seeded....after our sorghum-sudan was cut off.... didn't get enough spring growth to cut it so this fall it is not getting seeded and waste that money... owner says he has guys hunting, but none of them showed up last year... I live right across the road.... but he won't let us hunt.....
I watch the red foxes and they get alot of the mice and stuff... there is a vixen that raises a litter every year near the creek... had 8 a couple years ago... I don't bother them, they don't bother me... see an occasional grey fox. I only trap/shoot possums if they get into the feed or the chickens; same with skunks... don't bother my stuff, I don't bother them...We have a couple of "resident" black bear and they only seem to get into the bird feeders at people's houses...
and the overpopulation of deer here.... Got my yearly deer with the truck a week ago on the way to work... busted signal light and lens, and the headlight doesn't work either now.... dented the fender.... over 40 a night in the barley field last fall/winter that we had cover crop seeded....after our sorghum-sudan was cut off.... didn't get enough spring growth to cut it so this fall it is not getting seeded and waste that money... owner says he has guys hunting, but none of them showed up last year... I live right across the road.... but he won't let us hunt.....
I watch the red foxes and they get alot of the mice and stuff... there is a vixen that raises a litter every year near the creek... had 8 a couple years ago... I don't bother them, they don't bother me... see an occasional grey fox. I only trap/shoot possums if they get into the feed or the chickens; same with skunks... don't bother my stuff, I don't bother them...We have a couple of "resident" black bear and they only seem to get into the bird feeders at people's houses...