BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[hellbender]

Interesting. I think they would have a difficult time convincing or coercing me without a warrant and sufficient proof. In fact, I myself would demand it. How about you?

Please help me out a bit. I'm not sure what you're talking about.

 

[bnjrob]

Interesting. I think they would have a difficult time convincing or coercing me without a warrant and sufficient proof. In fact, I myself would demand it. How about you?

LOL. As Texans have said for more than 150 years - Come and Take It. Whether it's our guns, our land, or our poultry, we tend to fight for what is ours.

 

[Beer can]

We shoot plenty of coyote here, like someone else said,like rats. They're pretty smart, and evolve. Dogs are the easiest way to get them now, predator calls at night Lol, not fooling Wile E.
They have a few 3 day contests here;
" 3 Day Coyote Contest- Heaviest Coyote $2000; $100 every coyote entered; Free banquet dinner and free $5 gun raffle ticket; Entry fee is only $35."
Winner last yr 48.80lbs, guy took home $2,500 all together.
Other prizes youth, women, daily.
525 hunters entered. That's just the one friends of mine participate in.

 

[stryker]

My friend and I were hunting on his families property about 15 years ago and it got dark on us quick. We were in the deep woods in Arkansas as he had a .22 single shot and I had a single shot shotgun. We had no flashlights and we could only see about 5-10 feet in front of us. It was dusk. We had about a 1/4 mile to go to his pasture. Then another couple hundred yards before getting to the house. We were about halfway through the woods when we heard a pack of coyotes surrounding us and practically escorted us out of their territory. He and I were back to back walking carefully to his house. They made some strange noises letting us know that we were surrounded and they were within 15 feet or less of us... There were shots fired but that didn't scare them off and we couldn't see anything.. When we were about 100 feet in his field one came to the treeline. We missed and that is when they all started to let us know exactly how many surrounded us by howling. After that day I never went to that area hunting by myself and I left my single shot guns at home. Not going to lie as my hair was standing on my neck and there must have been about 20 of them.

 

[NTBugtraq]

In southern West Virginia, there's an area called Paint Creek. The locals (who should know better) have been feeding bears for years, which has been against the law for many years. This has resulted in bears breaking into houses and several people have been injured. Don't recall if there have been folks killed or not but a lot of bears have been killed due to foolish people.

If you can't politely respond, you should reconsider why you are responding. I have to say, the funniest part was "Don't recall if there have been folks killed or not"...so you really just want to scare, not actually say any facts, right? This is a forum about chickens, not about lieing..

 

[CanadianBuckeye]

My friend and I were hunting on his families property about 15 years ago and it got dark on us quick. We were in the deep woods in Arkansas as he had a .22 single shot and I had a single shot shotgun. We had no flashlights and we could only see about 5-10 feet in front of us. It was dusk. We had about a 1/4 mile to go to his pasture. Then another couple hundred yards before getting to the house. We were about halfway through the woods when we heard a pack of coyotes surrounding us and practically escorted us out of their territory. He and I were back to back walking carefully to his house. They made some strange noises letting us know that we were surrounded and they were within 15 feet or less of us... There were shots fired but that didn't scare them off and we couldn't see anything.. When we were about 100 feet in his field one came to the treeline. We missed and that is when they all started to let us know exactly how many surrounded us by howling. After that day I never went to that area hunting by myself and I left my single shot guns at home. Not going to lie as my hair was standing on my neck and there must have been about 20 of them.

Very civilized of the coyotes, considering how few people want to do anything but shoot, poison or trap them!

 

[CanadianBuckeye]

Interesting. I think they would have a difficult time convincing or coercing me without a warrant and sufficient proof. In fact, I myself would demand it. How about you?

Do they actually need a warrant to take your chickens ? Of course I would imagine it's only during a flu outbreak.

 

[angry rooster]

And when you kill off top predators like wolves, bears, and mountain lions, you open the door to more problems.  Here in TX, because our ancestors killed off most of the top predators, coyotes are out of control.  They adapt to any situation, including living in the city and feeding out of dumpsters, trash cans, and even people's pets in their yards - they are like rats here.  They are not nearly as afraid of people as they should be, and that is dangerous.  The wildlife dept has to air drop bait laced with rabies vaccine to try to control rabies that is spread by the coyotes.  It is better to learn to live with the wildlife, even the top predators, unless nothing else can be done with a particularly dangerous individual predator, rather than to kill off everything and wind up with problem you didn't count on.

Right on
Coyotes are an amazing animal if you kill the breeding par they kick into overdrive and start to breed like rabbits I have seen a small pack of 4 individuals breeding par and last year's pup's grow to 10 the following year jest because the open license for coyotes in newfoundland let someone shoot the dominant male and then the sheep farm that had lived with that pack almost lost there there entire flock the only thing that coyotes can't seem to adapt to is something higher up on the food chain and we do not count
And they are wiry of eye shine I think for that reason so 2 small led's (red) that flash will give them something to think about cats on the other hand are a visual hunter and tend to stalk there pray they will circle and then when they make there move not much will stop them I have heard of larger packs of wolves running a lion out but that can be jest as bad for live stock
Bears on the other hand hunt by smell and they are the most unpredictable in my eyes they amount of friends that my family has lost to bears is to high
But I would not for one second wish any animal to disappear that is what makes the woods so fun for me is the chance to see something that gives me a rush I know there is danger but no more than driving to work
What I am trying to say is try and put yourself in the animals shoes if you want to control it behavior
Like if you have a deer problem (or moose in my case) make some rotten eggs and mix them in water then spray around your garden the deer think it is a rotting corps and predetors will gard a kill so no more deer (you do not have to mix it that strong many animals have better noses then us)
I have still not found anything yet to stop the egals and falcons from trying to take my hens tho so any help on that one will be much appreciated

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Well, my very first chicken, Paula, died today. She was obviously feeling badly yesterday, and when I picked her up and was alarmed at how very thin she had gotten (it hadn't been that long since I had held her, so it must have happened fast). Thought it was worms at first - she had diarrhea - and gave her a dose of Safeguard. Kept her in a crate here in the den all day yesterday. She ate ok and lived through the night, but was very warm to the touch, holding her wings away from her body and panting very hard. Wouldn't eat this morning, and I came home to her dead.

I took care of the chicken chores while working up the nerve to do the necropsy. I'm glad I had processed before, so that I knew what a healthy chicken looked like on the inside. It was Mareks - her liver was ENORMOUS (filled entire front of abdomen, couldn't see anything else until moving it out of the way), and there were very small (and some slightly larger) tumors in it. Abdomen filled with huge tumors (lymph nodes). (GI tract normal, no worms).

She was my first, was a solo chick for a while so she was a little like a pet - I was attached to her. She was vaccinated for Mareks.

:::sigh:::

- Ant Farm

 

[dan26552]

Well, my very first chicken, Paula, died today. She was obviously feeling badly yesterday, and when I picked her up and was alarmed at how very thin she had gotten (it hadn't been that long since I had held her, so it must have happened fast). Thought it was worms at first - she had diarrhea - and gave her a dose of Safeguard. Kept her in a crate here in the den all day yesterday. She ate ok and lived through the night, but was very warm to the touch, holding her wings away from her body and panting very hard. Wouldn't eat this morning, and I came home to her dead.

I took care of the chicken chores while working up the nerve to do the necropsy. I'm glad I had processed before, so that I knew what a healthy chicken looked like on the inside. It was Mareks - her liver was ENORMOUS (filled entire front of abdomen, couldn't see anything else until moving it out of the way), and there were very small (and some slightly larger) tumors in it. Abdomen filled with huge tumors (lymph nodes). (GI tract normal, no worms).

She was my first, was a solo chick for a while so she was a little like a pet - I was attached to her. She was vaccinated for Mareks.

:::sigh:::

- Ant Farm