well, i have some good news, the place in loxahattchee is a go, the woman is awesome, she breeds some dogs, has a number of them on the property, a few horses, and the other woman there is a naturalist, waiting for the end of the world kinda girl, so this all works out well for me.
my chickies...
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you know, having all the crap happened to me has made me pretty upset these past few weeks, but reading your story made me more angry than anything over here.
i just dont understand people. or why they would do something like all this. i am soo glad i dont have kids that might huggle...
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i am going to call them as i am setting up in the new house, i have their address. i'll tell em what i know, if they're interested, they can go on over there. i do have any hard evidence that it's him. i guess the biggest thing for me is he used to come over with his dog everyday and...
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i dont have time to sit around and wait for this kid, i wish i could be home all day.
about a month ago i was out of hours at work, but now we have a few big jobs going, and i gotta be there full time again, i started this whole chicken thing as a sidejob because of the lack of work...
i do only have one solitary chick left.
i am going to go look at another place tomorrow, with 5 acres and a trailer, the lady owns some horses too, and they stay on the property.
this might be my winner, if this is the winner, i will bring all my birds over to my friends house, and they'll...
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this is the open area my meat ducks and meat chickens were in at the time of the 75 chicks deaths, when they were smashed, twisted, and pulled apart from each other.
this area is easily...
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well, if you read all of the thread, and i know there is alot now.
i have a gate, it has a latch, that latch was opened, unlatched, then closed and relatched, birds were taken out of the pen and i found footprints and dogprints.
also, my gate to the fenced in area was opened and...
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i would be happy if it just stopped.
i usually get 7 for quail, and 15 for the chickens though.
but i've only sold regular breed roosters, i think these cornish could have pulled down 20. most of the roosters were under 5 pounds, and going for 15.
found a place with 5 acres and a...
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HAHAHAHAHAHAH I just pee'd! The skunk ape hits again~
Get the motion camera! it will serve as evidence in court when you sue his parents for the cost of your critters. And when you have that evidence call social services and have them come out! i foster and that is a RED FLAG...
http://pecanspiders.tamu.edu/pitfall.htm
basic idea of a pitfall trap, but about 6-7 feet deep, and 2 feet around.
put some fish in the bottom, or other stinky meat, and you will always catch a raccoon if there is one around. they are smart, but i think they dont have the depth perception to...
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Dude- SUPER-bad idea.
In my heart of hearts I am all about giving your preditor a bit of buckshot in the arse, or humiliating him by dropping him in a hole, but this is some serious bad-juju.
At best you are going to be slapped with an "attractive nusiance" charge: both for your...
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alot of people say this, but in florida a warning shot = 20 years in jail, miss or not, if your shot was not warrented.
we have a 10-20-life rule here, and pulling a gun when not required to protect your life is aggro assault, the first degree of which is a felony,
and if you commit...
i think i am going to go with a pitfall trap. this kid is overweight and lazy, i'll make one i can barely get out of, and he'll definately be stuck in.
i have no trespassing signs, he'd have to break and enter my gate to fall in the trap, i'll take some pictures of the chickens that died today...
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i dont often walk 20 yards without my .45 or 9mm, but shooting a child wont get me much sympathy in court. my suspect is in 6th grade, so i guess he's 11 or 12?
his whole family has some issues, but i do need some hard evidence to call the police, i dont think they'll care about my...
i had some roosters, but my nearby neighbors called animal control about the noise, and then called police about noise, so i was being neighborly, and got rid of them, they never actually talked to me personally about it, so that drove me crazy.
anyway, when i got home today, 3 more meat...
some strange kids around. some homeless people in the woods, i swear i hate this house.
lost another one last night, a duck, smashed, completely intact, the gate wasn't opened, no footprints, nothin, duck didn't lose a feather. it was about a month old or so, one of the ones i hatched.
i dotn...
just read my post again, i dont know how i forgot to mention my quail, i had 13 quail left, and out of those 13 all of them are dead or missing now, i found quail heads, and i found quail bodies that were otherwise unharmed, i found one quail that was smashed, and cant find parts or anything of...
never seen one of those around here, iguana's however, are plentiful, but i've never seen a live one in my chicken pen, the chickens have made short work of the two that have stumbled in there.