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Since chickens will eat rats and young rats, and the presence of rats draws weasels, I think the above snippet, horrifying though it may be, is relative to the discussion, and certainly to the way that I manage my property and predator issues. If my birds eat a dead rat or portion of it and take in rat poison, and I eat their eggs, well I will be eating rat poison.
I have lived in the city with the constant war on rats and no predators, save my one little outdoor cat and my outdoor dog. I choose to live in relative harmony and use natural solutions to solve the problems nature presents when I can.
I will cull and cook a chicken. I will kill rats and I have killed several snakes this year, one in the nest box with an egg in it. but if I am not going to eat it, and I can protect my chickens otherwise, I favor that commandment that goes: thou shalt not kill. I think people are often unwise in their extermination, and "ya don't know what ya got til its gone."
I have lived in the city with the constant war on rats and no predators, save my one little outdoor cat and my outdoor dog. I choose to live in relative harmony and use natural solutions to solve the problems nature presents when I can.
I will cull and cook a chicken. I will kill rats and I have killed several snakes this year, one in the nest box with an egg in it. but if I am not going to eat it, and I can protect my chickens otherwise, I favor that commandment that goes: thou shalt not kill. I think people are often unwise in their extermination, and "ya don't know what ya got til its gone."
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