Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat - Part 2 : Chicken Boogaloo.

[microchick]

He lives in an apartment. He has no land...

Then he is breaking the law, pure and simple. The immorality of shooting any animal for target practice aside, the man is a criminal if he is doing this just for sport or 'target' practice and shooting the animal out of season.

I live in the middle of an Amish community. For the most part they are good neighbors but they are 'strange' in the way they look at land stewardship. Our wild turkey population is growing around us. I love wild turkeys and we have set down a strict law that nobody is allowed to hunt them on our property. Recently talking to a neighbor we commented about the 50 or so turkeys that we had in our front yard one morning. The neighbor told us that yes, they were making a comeback mainly because the game warden had caught up with the Amish. Seems as though they were going out at night and spotlighting the birds as they roosted in the trees. Bang. Turkey for dinner. The Game Warden had found a total of 30 birds in an Amish freezer.

You can either hope that the game warden catches up with the man with a zest for bunny murder or if you know when and where he is hunting, maybe drop a word in the local game wardens ear. Either way, people like him usually get caught.

But in my 63 years on this planet, if nothing else I have learned that people can be very strange. We knew a couple that lived in a deep rural area that are always having cats dumped on them. They shoot them with a .22. It still bothers me to this day. I'm sitting here with my fat 9 year old tabby cat at my side and 4 more spoiled felines lounging around the house. We have 5 dogs and 31 chickens. I guess that qualifies us as animal lovers. And while I am not overly fond of wild rabbits, one of the reasons I won't raise tame ones is because I know I would never be able to butcher and eat one. They are too much like pets.

Wild ones on the other hand are delicious when they are pre-fried and slow cooked in a crockpot.

 

[Beekissed]

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That used to be a pretty common practice and I don't have a bit of problem with it. Everyone out there whining about the huge problem of population control of feral cats but everything they do is calculated to increase the population, even down to the neutering and spaying of them and especially the feeding of them. There didn't used to be a problem with it when people opted to control their numbers much like they do any other animal that has went into an overgrowth.....shoot the excess, which is no different than them being euthanized in a shelter, but a mere fraction of the cost.

I'd be much more bothered by the people who dumped the cats onto someone else, not having the guts to take care of the problem themselves. If that were a problem where I lived, we'd be killing excess cats also.

Around here stray dogs are treated much the same way...if they have a collar and can be caught, the owners are given a call and a chance to retrieve them. If they are seen on the land again, they are eliminated. If they have no collar, they are considered a hunting/scavenging stray and are taken out humanely with a single shot. There's only one reason for a dog to be this far back in the woods from the hard road....they are after the only chickens for miles.

Population control comes in many forms and as long as it's done skillfully and humanely, I have no problem with it happening with a gun or with a needle, they produce much the same result, though nowadays folk seem to think there is a difference and have no problem with a cat or dog being euthanized at a shelter.

 

[lazy gardener]

Back to the purpose of the thread: I take some of my extra eggs in to sell to co-workers. Occasionally, I will drag a box of eggs out of the fridge, and show them to an elderly resident as we "walk down memory lane together." I showed some eggs to a gentleman yesterday, He has dementia, but his comment could just as easily come from someone on the street.

Me: "Have you ever seen a green egg?"
Him: "At Easter?"
Me: "No, fresh out of the nest box."
Him: "They must be bad, I wouldn't eat them if I were you!"
I then opened the carton to show him. He marveled at them. Had to pick them up and feel them!
His response was refreshing!!!

 

[junebuggena]

I've got a brand new egg customer. His first dozen included a couple blue double yolkers from my newly laying pullets. We will see what he thinks of them.

 

[Kiki]

I've got a brand new egg customer. His first dozen included a couple blue double yolkers from my newly laying pullets. We will see what he thinks of them.

Uh ho...you know those are bad eggs! He may want a refund!


LOL just picking atcha!

 

[JadedPhoenix]

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My first rabbit was a Netherland Dwarf. He was so territorial of his litterbox and SPOILED. If the cat so much as sniffed his litterbox he would hop up on his hutch and not come down until his box was LYSOLED! He'd even pee on his hutch for spite if we didn't.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I dont think i could shoot a dog, especially if i knew it was owned by somebody. I can understand protecting your property and everything but I'd just catch it and return it. I'd like to think I'd give it 3 chances and if it's back a third time I'd shoot it but realistically I'd probably just catch it as many times as necessary. I don't know, just knowing it's someone's pet I couldn't do it and it seems mean to me to just shoot it for showing up a second time. Speaking of which, I think that if it was actively going after my animals then I would maybe be able to shoot it or at least give a warning shot (or hopefully I would have LGDs) but for just appearing on the property I don't think I'd shoot it, could have gotten lost or something or maybe was chasing a deer, coyote, etc. And not necessarily the chickens. But I can understand why some people do things certain ways but just for me I couldn't and I'd probably have the owner pick i up or take it to a shelter. Cats I'd probably let stay as long as they weren't harming anything but they'd have to work to earn their keep, I either wouldn't feed them at all or just have a bowl of dry food. Although I suppose if I was constantly having animals dumped onto my property and the numbers were getting too high then I would probably take some to the shelter, sell on Craigslist, or maaaaayyybeeeee shoot as a last resort. And also I don't mean this as starting an argument but I'm curious how spaying and neutering the cats would increase the population? I can see how feeding them would attract more but fixing them? Unless maybe being fixed makes them less territorial so they allow more males into their territory and don't kill kittens, etc. But even then they can't nake more babies so sirely it helps at least a little? But maybe attracts more cats from other areas

 

[ShrekDawg]

I used to have a rabbit and he was the nicest thing. Let me hold him in my lap sometimes, though he was a little skittish when out, and when he was let out of his cage he would sometimes binky and was adorable. No clue what breed but he was all black and not the biggest rabbit but not the teeniest either, he was a decent size I think. Had upright ears if I remember right but sometimes they went out sideways lol but i dont think he was lop or whatever.

 

[cutiechook1]

That sounds adorable!

 

[ShrekDawg]

That sounds adorable!

He was!!