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[Mojo Chick'n]

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Now I'm confused!

So by shortening, you mean that icky white stuff that comes in the mini-buckets?

Oh man!! They changed the scratching head guy!

yeah, like Crisco

meri

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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In my car I have the buttons set to 91.7 97.1 96.3 (I think that is it - might be 93.6 I know all them thar numbers are in some order somewhere) and um... would have to look - but the local station is there, too (92.7?)

There just isn't a lot to listen to nearby.

We had rats on one of the farms I lived on as a kid - we had all sorts of poultry, ducks, geese, chickens. They never hurt the chickens, but they did drown a duck once in the little pool we had out there for them. Didn't eat him, just kept shoving him under til he died.

BTW - One of my faves is. Happiness is a Warm Gun (bang bang shoot shoot)

ETA - Possums creep me out and scare the poo out of me - they are so nasty!!!

meri

 

[shelleyd2008]

Oh at the sale one night there were some teen guys that had one as a pet!!! Could you imagine?? It got loose, and they weren't able to catch it. I saw them later and asked if they had gotten it, they said 'no but his name is 'kitten' he's real tame, you can have him if you find him'. Oh yeah right!!! A baby coon or squirrel, yeah (I wish I could get one!), but a possum?? No freaking way!!


Oh btw, isn't it spelled opossum?

 

[cthrash1]

Possum fur is way soft like a cat but a little longer than a short coat cat. My grandma went to Australia one year when I was a teen and brought me a Koala bear made with Opposum(their pronunc) fur. It was really soft.
Guess I better get to reading the Predator lists and see if they will kill ducks.

No I don't have electric fencing, no source of electricity back there. I've seen solar power boxes for them but they are too expensive for me.

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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Friend of mine growing up had a "pet" coon.
It was still scary - it hissed, it scratched it would bite if it had the chance. It was fine when it was a baby, but then it grew up, and it had natural instincts it just couldn't overcome.

Now, on the other hand - my partner when I was driving trucks coast to coast had a pet skunk - de-natured. That was the funniest creature I ever met. It acted a lot like a cat, but way more fluffy and way more vocal. It used the litter box like a cat - and was spoiled rotten, sweet little thing.

I have no idea why the skunk was great as a pet, and the coon wasn't. Might have been how much attention they got, might have been the skunk was born in captivity or something.

Judging from "Sweety Pie" (the skunk), if I had to choose a wild animal for a pet, though, it'd have to be a skunk. (I've had snakes before, they are cool - just not quite as cuddly as that skunk was.)

meri

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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I sometimes see the solar powered boxes at yard sales and the like, do ya want me to keep an eye out for one for ya? This past summer I saw one at a yard sale for like 7 bucks. Usually they are about 20, though.

Little late in the year for it now

but next summer, I mean.

meri

 

[shelleyd2008]

We had a few pet coons when I was younge, and the meaner ones were the females. After they matured they would get mean and stay mean. The males were ok as long as you didn't smell like a male racoon, and you weren't mean to it.
My brother's friend had a littermate of the male that we had, also a male. He was playing with his friends coon one day, and came home to play with his. It bit him. But he would put it in a cage and use it as bait for his coon hounds too, so that didn't help. I remember one day it had gotten out, I think his name was Bubbles. My brother and his friends were trying to catch him to put him back, and couldn't get him. He called me out there, and I just bent down and scooped him up. Not an easy feat, since he weighed about 20 pounds already, but I just carried him over by my brother and said 'where do you want him?' Haha, my brother let him go not long after.

 

[FrChuckW]

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Yes that is odd. I wonder how that happened?

Could be that you have an unfriendly neighbor that wants to create problems for you with animal control. By placing dead vermin in your yard they are trying to show you as a health hazard to the neighborhood because of your chickens.

 

[shelleyd2008]

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Yes that is odd. I wonder how that happened?

Could be that you have an unfriendly neighbor that wants to create problems for you with animal control. By placing dead vermin in your yard they are trying to show you as a health hazard to the neighborhood because of your chickens.

Really? That's a bunch of bull. I would throw them under their house when they aren't looking, give them a nice stink to live with. Jerks.

 

[cthrash1]

Hey do either of you have a trap I can borrow for a few days? I think I'm gonna trap it and dispose of it. Thought about sitting in one of the lawn chairs with the 22 pistol and wait for it in the evening but I think trapping first would be better.