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[providentialpastures]

By the way, I just wanted to say that as long as you are doing it legally you can get rid of a big pest and have meat for your table. If you don't want the meat, it would be easier and safer to just get rid of the tourist stops that attract the bear.

 

[wilds of pa]

I trap animals and don't eat them...but i choose to trap them because i can and will...
so killing an animal and not eating the government also says i can..

thats my whole thoughts on shooting or trapping animals for sport or for any reason one may have that is there choice.

Some are sports hunters and some are meat hunters. however i hunt deer and don't make antlers the whole thing about it.

If is a legal kill then that is my choice if i want to kill it or not. Of course the big rack to go with it makes it a better hunt, but you cant eat antlers...

If you look at other states, some of them using baiting as away to take the largest or most mature animal they can get/kill.
which for bear they are tough to discern a mature female and a 1 year old cub...So in some cases i think baiting is OK as long as the state or government say it is.. I dislike PETA in most of there views

OK here's one for you, suppose you have a chicken feeder in your run and the bear finds it, does that mean you must take your feed away from your chickens..i don't think so.. now id like to see the PGC call that baiting,..
Sure if you have a bird feeder out and the bear comes along they will tell you to take it down or be fined..

Id love to hear what anybody thinks about a chicken feeder being called baiting bear. And even if you removed a feeder in a run, then maybe that bear may think.. well i still smell the feed lets see if i can get whats inside the coop..
bang is what what happen..

Charlie

 

[hinkjc]

2. No PETA or Cock fighting posts, period!

In addition, some of you may want to go back and read the rules surrounding Predator and Pests posts.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=5808