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[old*cowboy]

i do have a few cats around, well they arent mine but they hang around. never lost a bird to one, not even chicks! i have had more trouble with dogs than cats. i do hunt both at times.

for some reason the cats around here dont eat mice, never figured out why unless it was because we had a norway rat invasion a few years ago.
them suckers are huge! didnt blame the cats for not taking them on, scared me walking around after dark.

125 bucks for a good pellet gun, 10 bucks for pellets, sitting at a school desk in the shade for 4 hours everyday shooting rats, PRICELESS!

someone will have to ask my wife about the GIANT RAT her sister found one night, you would think a woman from the country would know what a possum was. i laughed till i cried! watching a 250 pound woman jump that high is hillarious to see!


oh and the possum didnt make the cut,

but so true

 

[old*cowboy]

actually,,,,,,, no. something about cats, i just dont like em. i tolerate em when they are someone elses, but there aint none in my house!


fine oriental quisiene to me.

I agree 100%. Some people are cat people. some aint. I aint one. I did have one years back that stayed in my pigeon loft. He was tolerable. You mention the pellet gun experiance. Back in the late 70s I moved into a country rent house that was way to the middle of by itself for miles. More cats than I had ever seen running around all the hay barns and bldgs. Owner told me seemed like everybody and their dog (now theres an animal) dumped cats there and they had all multiplied. Gave me the green light to take them out. I spent many a afternoon setting in the shade as you mention with a 22. Ah the good ole days.

 

[Ksane]

mitzi you will find the bigger birds are much hardier and stronger than the small ones when fully grown.

Oh, I'm definitely partial to the big'uns, it seems. Although my Modern pair have really grown on me. I've never known a rooster so incredibly sweet to his hen. He picks food up and puts it in her mouth for her! She just lays there like a Queen and eats

 

[Oceanseve]

Oh, I'm definitely partial to the big'uns, it seems. Although my Modern pair have really grown on me. I've never known a rooster so incredibly sweet to his hen. He picks food up and puts it in her mouth for her! She just lays there like a Queen and eats

seriously? sometimes I wish I was a chicken No fair editing the pic! I would be worried about seperating them this early. They probably should stay together for a couple more weeks before you relocate any of them, if there were four or more it'd be different. (sorry it's the rescuer part of me being rational

) A lone kitten that young would probably have trouble thriving especially since my indoor cats probably wouldn't be very nice to him. I speak from experience. I ended up with a pair of pups that were only a week or two old during an ice storm, the mother left them at the door of my bank and they called me up, well a week later we had parvo go through our house, we lost one and it took a LOT of work to keep the other one going.

 

[Oceanseve]

My four new slimy, soon to be fuzzy butts!

 

[Ksane]

My four new slimy, soon to be fuzzy butts!

How many eggs were there? Wow! Ducks are supposed to be super tame as pets.

 

[jcatblum]

Mitzi one of the turkey eggs appeared to stop forming. DD said what am I going to do with only 1 turkey! Guess we will see if it hatches next wk.

Set 10 dz guinea eggs tonight. Guineas are going to be everywhere very soon!

 

[johnorem]

We always had barn cats on the dairy. Always considered them an asset. Always spayed them but enough were dumped to keep the population up. Some of them would walk around under the cows in the parlor to get the odd squirt. Only remember one getting its tail stepped on.

 

[Ksane]

Mitzi one of the turkey eggs appeared to stop forming. DD said what am I going to do with only 1 turkey! Guess we will see if it hatches next wk.

Oh jeez, that sucks.
I had placed the tom and the 2 hens walked around here for a week solid barking like seals looking for him. I couldn't believe it was actually because they missed him, thought it was something else. Well the lady with the tom called me to tell me the tom had done nothing but gobble non-stop and could she please buy even just 1 of the hens because she couldn't find any anywhere else. So I gave her both for the price of one. 1 turkey alone would be a miserable animal.

We always had barn cats on the dairy. Always considered them an asset. Always spayed them but enough were dumped to keep the population up. Some of them would walk around under the cows in the parlor to get the odd squirt. Only remember one getting its tail stepped on.

Surely you need another one so you can re-live those awesome memories :-D
My ex-father-in-law was a milk hauler in Iowa. Those really were good memories, I loved going with him.

 

[Oceanseve]

How many eggs were there? Wow! Ducks are supposed to be super tame as pets.

There were 6 eggs. Here's a puzzler for you. All were set on the same day, but one looks like it's only developed to about day 18 BUT it is still alive. Explain that one to me. I left it in the turner thinking maybe it would develop more, but it hasn't it still looks exactly the same as when I put the others in lockdown.