interesting one branch of the goverment has no idea what the other branch can legally do, so ..... you can ask the right question to the wrong person and get bad information. Someone also told me not to ask the question if I did not want to know the answer.
I dug a foot trench one inch deep and buried a fence toward the predator area, they are not smart enough to back up to begin the digging. chicken wire mesh is fine.
my wife just showed me a photo of a revolver which has it's name stenciled on the side below the cylinder "Kindness"
next time i need to shoot a skunk i will kill it with "Kindness"
I have kept up with your thread and agree with you.
Sometimes you cannot report your neighbors for fear of their reaction, if they were smart they never would never have started feeding predators.
I live in bear country and do not even put out bird seed.
i have spent hours watching polyface farm video(s) on youtube. the one thing that stuck in my weak mind is that they have not bought seeds or fertilizer in 50 years. must be due to the amount of livestock feed they buy
here is a video that has a modern chicken plucker as well as a scalder
I was amazed at the number of chickens per hour
These machines are available to rent
I have met a lot of people that try and straddle the barbed wire fence on issues and only prove that relativism does not work.
I hate to kill coyote but a friend had goats and one night she was awakened to the sound of a coyote attack, the coyotes had eaten the udder of every one of her goats...