Do not Relocate predators!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[saddina]

Quote:
Oh oh oh!!!! where can I get one? Mine says "Disclaimer: Imported from San Fransisco"

Lol u 2!!!!!! Read my tagline

And I'm the one with the long hair and needing a shave.

Unless it's down past your hips, mine is longer, but you're right, don't need a shave here, I waxed on Tuesday.

 

[Boyd]

if you're the bearded lady, then I'm Miles Davis

 

[saddina]

Quote:
lol, ladies don't shave thier face goober.... well 'cept for my aunt Susan /shudder.... but it's a lovely 95 out, and already bikini season out here.

 

[bluey]

Quote:
Just a reminder to folks offended by the killing of predators. BYC's full policy on the Predators and Pests section is found on a sticky in that section.

Read that last policy sentence again, bluey. WE ARE NOT HERE TO JUDGE ONE ANOTHER ON METHODS OR WAYS AND MEANS.

That goes BOTH ways. It applies as much to folks who are offended by trapping and relocation as it does to folks who are offended by killing. EVERYONE here should show respect for other viewpoints -- not just a few. If folks want to disagree with a method , great -- but they ought to be able to do so RESPECTFULLY.

I wasn't referring to you.

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

Quote:
Killing predators also helps to spread disease, because it encourages immigration of new predators. More population movement equals more disease spread.

The best solution for predator problems is to PREVENT ACCESS of those predators to your birds.

I agree. I have lots of raccoons where I live. All of my pens are very predator proof, and there is absolutely no way a raccoon is getting into any of my pens. I just leave them be, and never have had any problems.

 

[bluey]

Some of us free range our birds and don't wish to keep them them locked up in runs and coops 24/7. This demands a little more hands on work with predators, as distasteful as that is to some.

The topic was about relocating predators...not predator proofing coops and runs.

 

[saddina]

Quote:
Killing predators also helps to spread disease, because it encourages immigration of new predators. More population movement equals more disease spread.

The best solution for predator problems is to PREVENT ACCESS of those predators to your birds.

I agree. I have lots of raccoons where I live. All of my pens are very predator proof, and there is absolutely no way a raccoon is getting into any of my pens. I just leave them be, and never have had any problems.

The problem with that is you can't prove it's preditor proof, you can just be sure it's not breeched yet. I doubt anyone thought, "I'm gonna build a cheap pen and I'll just SSS anything that comes by", but rether they felt thier pens were secure untill breached. Penned animals are and easy meal, and any predator that has "dined" at your pens once will return for dinner again. An animal in the woods is in his home, and I wouldn't be angry at him for being there, an animal in my coop is not in his home, and he can not continue to be here.

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

Quote:
I do free range my birds. Every night I go back out to lock them in.

 

[Boyd]

Quote:
I do free range my birds. Every night I go back out to lock them in.

which I agree is a sound practice........... although it doesn't go back to the original post... Trapping and relocating predators.

 

[EricShane]

well, obviously don't relocate animals on other peoples property.. But, I DO believe strongly in relocating, and there are wildlife areas and state parks, where if you call animal control they will gladly relocate them there, for you. (at least ours does..... some probably just pop em and wack em)