Rabbits are not native to Australia, they were introduced and are feral...nice fallacy. Here we are talking about managing an entire ecosystem. We have taken the habitat for development and farming out of necessity, we have introduced a buffet of penned chickens into a system that normally would have these predators in check to to limited food supply. Now that we have altered the balance, they don't have to work so hard for food, they multiply at accelerated rates, and so it comes full circle and we have the responsibility now and we must kill them to keep them in check.
Its not pretty, but its the right thing to do. If you are one of those folks that would fight development to save a fly, then we all know that all you want to do is fight for the sake of fighting. This isn't college and we aren't impressionable youths bent on saving the planet from the peril d'jour. You cull your stock, you deal with the nasty business of keeping that balance, same goes for the system you are in...geographically. Different issues regarding predation and over populated predator species are different by geographic location. Some predator issues are similar, like the coyote. We have more coyotes now than we have ever had on record not just in Oklahoma, but nationally.
This is something the hippies that want to go "off the grid" are learning the hard way. Buy your land, build your cabin by hand, have your solar array and battery banks, your windmill wells and cisterns. Compost Everything and start your flock, maybe add a cow or some goats, Go to sleep and dream happy hippie thoughts...wake up and your cow has run off and your chickens are dead. You go to town for coffee, complaining to the old codgers who gather at the co-op every day and they look at you like you are from Mars because you left out the most important tool for sustaining a small farm...a gun. Get one and control the predators or they will kill your livestock...its so simple its stupid.
Its not pretty, but its the right thing to do. If you are one of those folks that would fight development to save a fly, then we all know that all you want to do is fight for the sake of fighting. This isn't college and we aren't impressionable youths bent on saving the planet from the peril d'jour. You cull your stock, you deal with the nasty business of keeping that balance, same goes for the system you are in...geographically. Different issues regarding predation and over populated predator species are different by geographic location. Some predator issues are similar, like the coyote. We have more coyotes now than we have ever had on record not just in Oklahoma, but nationally.
This is something the hippies that want to go "off the grid" are learning the hard way. Buy your land, build your cabin by hand, have your solar array and battery banks, your windmill wells and cisterns. Compost Everything and start your flock, maybe add a cow or some goats, Go to sleep and dream happy hippie thoughts...wake up and your cow has run off and your chickens are dead. You go to town for coffee, complaining to the old codgers who gather at the co-op every day and they look at you like you are from Mars because you left out the most important tool for sustaining a small farm...a gun. Get one and control the predators or they will kill your livestock...its so simple its stupid.
