- Dec 7, 2011
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In my opinion, killing predators is for the most part a waste of time ,energy, and resources. To give background, I was raised on a working farm and have never lived in the city. I now live on 40 acres, partially wooded. The worst ( most efficient) predator I have experienced are humans,and its illegal to kill them. They don't kill necessarily for hunger, they kill for sport, to assert dominance (real smart, every living thing is dominant than a dead animal), and just because they can. Okay, I'm off that dead end.
1. every predator that is killed leaves a "hole" that another predator will fill.
2. Its cheaper, in terms of labor and fowl killed, to put fowl out of the predators reach than try to annihilate all predators.
3. For most predators, our chickens & other fowl aren't the only or even main prey, most rely on other "pest" prey, if you are successful in killing all the mink,coons,skunks,ect. your next target is going to have to be the insects, rats,mice,ect. that they lived on. Its never ending. Why bother?
I have no problem with hunting deer for food, as long as you realize that nothing is free. There, in my opinion ,is nothing lower that the city types that every year kill cattle,goats, sheep, and horses because they are too dumb to know what a deer looks like. The farmers that support the deer population have the right to hunt for food. You won't find many farmers bragging about how many coons they trapped, they either have dogs that keep predators away from their fowl and/ or protect their fowl environmentally.
1. every predator that is killed leaves a "hole" that another predator will fill.
2. Its cheaper, in terms of labor and fowl killed, to put fowl out of the predators reach than try to annihilate all predators.
3. For most predators, our chickens & other fowl aren't the only or even main prey, most rely on other "pest" prey, if you are successful in killing all the mink,coons,skunks,ect. your next target is going to have to be the insects, rats,mice,ect. that they lived on. Its never ending. Why bother?
I have no problem with hunting deer for food, as long as you realize that nothing is free. There, in my opinion ,is nothing lower that the city types that every year kill cattle,goats, sheep, and horses because they are too dumb to know what a deer looks like. The farmers that support the deer population have the right to hunt for food. You won't find many farmers bragging about how many coons they trapped, they either have dogs that keep predators away from their fowl and/ or protect their fowl environmentally.