Skunk disposal

[BantyChooks]

I'll keep peanuts in mind.

I guess people can have their own definition of country. I'm still going to say I live out in the country.

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Gorgeous. Hope you know I wasn't serious.

 

[lomine]

Gorgeous. Hope you know I wasn't serious.

 

[Howard E]

We put any animals we kill out back in an open hay field and 24 hours later the buzzards will have reduced them to a few bones and a hairball. Last summer when my dad was trapping coons in the sweetcorn, after a week or so he had buzzards sitting in the trees like Christmas ornaments waiting for breakfast.

 

[bobbi-j]

We put any animals we kill out back in an open hay field and 24 hours later the buzzards will have reduced them to a few bones and a hairball. Last summer when my dad was trapping coons in the sweetcorn, after a week or so he had buzzards sitting in the trees like Christmas ornaments waiting for breakfast.

That's some ugly Christmas ornaments!

 

[Howard E]

Beauty being in the eye of the beholder? But yes, they are some ugly looking birds. Form follows function?
Funny thing is for the short period of time in the dead of winter when the buzzards move south, scavenger duty is left to the crows and bald eagles. Seeing a majestic bald eagle going to town on a dead deer carcass takes some getting used to.

 

[bobbi-j]

Seeing a majestic bald eagle going to town on a dead deer carcass takes some getting used to.

Oh, for sure! In elementary school, we would watch movies on bald eagles and watch them swoop down to grab salmon out of the river and as you said, it was majestic. Beautiful! They have only been common in our area for the last 15-20 years, and I couldn't believe it the first time I saw one eating roadkill. I thought, "They are nothing more than a glorified buzzard!" I still think they're beautiful, though...

 

[BantyChooks]

Oh, for sure! In elementary school, we would watch movies on bald eagles and watch them swoop down to grab salmon out of the river and as you said, it was majestic. Beautiful! They have only been common in our area for the last 15-20 years, and I couldn't believe it the first time I saw one eating roadkill. I thought, "They are nothing more than a glorified buzzard!" I still think they're beautiful, though...

'Merica

 

[wyoDreamer]

Yes, Bold Eagles are opportunistic eaters. They frequent the bone pile quite regularly to clean up the fish cleanings, deer carcasses and such. I get quite a startle when I jump out of the truck with a pail of fish heads and have an eagle take off not 8 feet away.

Really cool is watching Golden Eagles ground hunt cottontails. We would sit on the back porch and watch them walk through the prairie grasses hunting for rabbits. They are surprisingly quite successful hunting that way.

Oh yeah, we bury any skunks we take out. But we have a tractor with a backhoe. Easy peasy, and somewhat fun.

 

[theoldchick]

Well, around here, all my culled skunks are taken care of by the buzzards. And I do live out in the country. I have a certain area where I put my culled varmints, and the buzzards keep an eye on that area.

 

[bobbi-j]

We have a nesting pair of bald eagles about 1/2 mile from our place. Their tree is on the edge of a field we farm. Sometimes we'll leave offerings of fresh fish guts and carcasses out in the field for them. They disappear, but I don't know if it's the eagles eating them or something else.