Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

[The Yakima Kid]

Also we have a ton of bad spiders. I'm not afraid of spiders and most are not venomous... funnel-webs are a different matter

Girl, you're beginning to make Australia sound like either the Pervish Ministry of Tourism fliers from the Myth Adventures series; or a Saudi Aramco World book encouraging people to apply for jobs

in Saudi with a description of the wildlife - scorpions, snakes, spiders, and more - and it seemed all of them venomous.

Forget going to NSW - I'm going upstairs and crawling *under* my bed and turning the electric blanket up to nine.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

Leather boots wont stop a rattlesnake bite, there fangs can puncture truck tires. I never use gloves when cleaning my yard i see scorpions all the time, i only worry about the bark and green scorpions here.

The really old style Fred Mueller cowboy boots were guaranteed to stop rattlesnake bites. They came with a $50K policy against death and such from rattlesnake bites. I miss Fred Mueller saddles - the last saddle one could find with a real mountain and high plains upright cantle so you could sleep in the saddle.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

It was moms protection for working around scorpions. Our rattlesnakes were western diamondbacks and the scorpions were mostly white and a very rarely seen black. I have to admit i only seen a dozen or so rattlesnakes as i was growing up. And scorpion protection was usually carefully shaking out the shoes in the morning on hunting trips. But we would turn over rocks and boards at home to kill the scorpions. To keep them from building up there numbers around the house. We also went out into the desert and picked up really BIG flattened rocks to bring home.

When it was wet our yard at home turned into this shoe eating sucking clay. Spring was especially fun, the more you walked on the clay the softer and larger the soft spot got and the deeper in you would sink. By full thaw rescuing stuck kids happened often. On a hunting trip we came across a lot of broken slab rocks about 8" thick just sitting out on the ground. Dad decided that they would make good stepping stones for around the doors.

The whole family would gather around a rock slab as big as we could pick up and move it a couple feet at a time. The scorpions under the rock would scatter when the rock was picked up and head for new shelter. It often would be under the arches of our boots or back under the very same rock we had just moved. We could put 2 or 3 of the rock slabs into the back of the International and take them home to place around the door. We would go hunting 2-3 times a year and would bring home rock slabs each trip. By the time we were done we had a rock patio years before they became popular.

Where did you live in those days? I never saw anything but vinegaroons in eastern and central Washington.

 

[Hinotori]

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Clean out any black widows from under there first

 

[Mah1Mah1]

Girl, you're beginning to make Australia sound like either the Pervish Ministry of Tourism fliers from the Myth Adventures series; or a Saudi Aramco World book encouraging people to apply for jobs

in Saudi with a description of the wildlife - scorpions, snakes, spiders, and more - and it seemed all of them venomous.

Forget going to NSW - I'm going upstairs and crawling *under* my bed and turning the electric blanket up to nine.

At least we don't have any large predators like bears and wolves and such.

 

[Mah1Mah1]

Clean out any black widows from under there first

Oh yeah! Forgot about those xD and the whitetails

 

[vehve]

Quote: Except for the feared drop bear.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

Hold on folks, I'm really serious about keeping Vinegaroons and Black Widows and such out from under my furniture.

It would be hard to miss a white tail - but the Bambis prefer to be on the back side of the hills from us - although if one were to wander in during deer season and take a nap on the bed, it would be hard to complain if it held still long enough and I could put some plastic tarps around and under it.

Bears? Generally you can see or hear them coming, or the horse or mule or donkey or dog will let you know. I suppose polar bears would be tricky on snow - but we don't have those in Nevada or California.

And what is a drop bear?

 

[tandykins]

Girl, you're beginning to make Australia sound like either the Pervish Ministry of Tourism fliers from the Myth Adventures series; or a Saudi Aramco World book encouraging people to apply for jobs

in Saudi with a description of the wildlife - scorpions, snakes, spiders, and more - and it seemed all of them venomous.

Forget going to NSW - I'm going upstairs and crawling *under* my bed and turning the electric blanket up to nine.

Just to show you how not scared of Australia you should be - I'ma go find a field full of tall grass, lie down in it and let bugs crawl all over me.

Also I might be nuts.

Also you should never visit me because I breed spiders, beetles, cockroaches and solpugids (like Vinegaroons).

 

[The Yakima Kid]

Just to show you how not scared of Australia you should be - I'ma go find a field full of tall grass, lie down in it and let bugs crawl all over me.

Also I might be nuts.

Also you should never visit me because I breed spiders, beetles, cockroaches and solpugids (like Vinegaroons).

Well, with all due respect, and no offense intended, I am beginning to think that anyone who chooses to remain on a continent with Tiger snakes and is happy about it *is* nuts. I mean, I think that scares me more than the night my father kicked a grizzly bear in the rump - but not as much as having to listen to him repeat the tale over and over through the years. In his version, the bear got *smaller.* with almost ever telling, and he began by announcing that he thought he was the only man to ever kick a grizzly in the butt and live.