➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[Tesumph]

Predators, however, get no quarter. Anything after my babies will get unceremoniously dispatched with a shovel and/or boiling water. And maybe nailed above the coop door if I am mad enough.

Goats are my favourite out of the ruminants.

Yea. I’m struggling with the fact that they haven’t killed anything YET, though they’ve been back several nights in a row.
I’ve had enough chickens maimed in the past to know better though.

The raccoon was shot last night, my husband had to take the possum to the ranch as we did not have access to a gun this morning.

 

[Kiki]

Sounds like your just making excuses!View attachment 1469955 View attachment 1469956
Where there's a will, there's a way!

 

[Conan]

Finally caught up after spending the day at in-laws with no internet.

You would not like dinner with my Australian family then, haha. Lamb is a staple.
I can definitely see how someone wouldn’t like the taste though. It’s got a musky aftertaste that takes some getting used to.

Definitely can’t get behind the “can’t eat it because it’s cute” thing though.

Agreed - Not all of us grew up on a farm! My grandparents and uncles ran a dairy farm and there is nothing cuter than a big doe eyed calf. Every month, the truck would come for all the males.

 

[Kiki]

There are critters I can't kill because they're cute, but once it's dead I'd eat just about anything except human. (That should go without saying, but miss Kiki is just the kind to twist my words!)

No twisting this morning.
I haven't had my fake coffee yet.

 

[PirateGirl]

I get that. I’m having a hard time killing the possum and raccoon I just trapped next to my coop that have been leaving prints all over it for the last week.

IMHO I think if people eat an animal then they should see how it’s raised/killed at least once before picking and choosing favorites, within reason (as I know not everyone grew up on a farm).
I find cows to be ridiculously cute, cuter than sheep by far.

Congrats on finally catching the raccoon. I know what you mean about having trouble sometimes. You want the critters gone, but it's hard to justify if they haven't done anything "wrong" yet. That's my relationship with the bunnies. I don't want wild rabbits and prairie dogs on my property, but felt bad when we found the whole nest of bunnies. We almost killed them all the first day we found them, I felt bad, let them all live, and now my animals are finding them one at a time. I don't know that this is any better. I guess I really just want all the critters gone, I don't necessarily want them all dead, but I'm not relocating every vole, rabbit, coyote, etc. If they don't have the wits to relocate themselves and make dens somewhere safer, I suppose they have to face up to the consequences, neighborhood dogs, cats, coyotes, and multiple neighbors with pellet guns (which would probably be legit firearms if we didn't all live so close to each other).

 

[The Phantom]

I'm over here picturing her being fed giant rabbits and goats... like Jurassic park.

I think darn near any meat turned into summer sausage is delicious! Moose, bear, elk, bison, deer, anything!

Grizzly bear is delicious! So are the rest!

 

[Kiki]

Predators, however, get no quarter. Anything after my babies will get unceremoniously dispatched with a shovel and/or boiling water. And maybe nailed above the coop door if I am mad enough.

Goats are my favourite out of the ruminants.

You boil them? What?

 

[Kiki]

I get that. I’m having a hard time killing the possum and raccoon I just trapped next to my coop that have been leaving prints all over it for the last week.

IMHO I think if people eat an animal then they should see how it’s raised/killed at least once before picking and choosing favorites, within reason (as I know not everyone grew up on a farm).
I find cows to be ridiculously cute, cuter than sheep by far.

Woot you caught the killers!!!

 

[Kiki]

Yea. I’m struggling with the fact that they haven’t killed anything YET, though they’ve been back several nights in a row.
I’ve had enough chickens maimed in the past to know better though.

The raccoon was shot last night, my husband had to take the possum to the ranch as we did not have access to a gun this morning.

He should have used your kitchen knife and cut it's head off!

 

[BantyChooks]

You boil them? What?

Um... not exactly. But it was hiding under a pallet and I needed to flush it out so I could whack it.
That was the mink that killed my ducks, so I wasn't exactly concerned with humane dispatch.