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[getaclue]

Congratulations SCG. Do you feel legal now? LOL!

CC, you could never be a thread killer.

Born in 68, and grandfathered....your still a youngun.

Yes, we need to change the name to Backyard Eagles.

Talons hurt!

 

[chickisoup]

took this off facebook. someone found this posted and took a pic of it.
Added the caption "you just can't make this stuff up-must have been someone NOT
from the country"

 

[ChickenCanoe]

You don't need the course/permit to trap one with the Have-A-Heart (or on my land, it's called the Have-A-Heartless since you don't come back out alive) but if you want to do any other type of trapping... yes. I talked to a game warden in my hunter safety class about trapping using the Have-A-Heart on my property due to the predator problems I was having and he said I'd be better off taking the trapping class and doing real trapping (footholds and killer) to better stay within the law. The law is that you can dispatch nuisance (obviously not the protected ones) animals killing your livestock without a permit and out of season, but most of these guys are nocturnal and there's no hunting at night or on Sundays unless you've got the trapping license to kill your trapped animals. This just helps me stay within the law.

I took the day off today, going to try to be really productive. Off to clean out the goats.

Have-A-Heartless

Yeah, I don't know why I've been using that kind all these years. I guess it was just because I had one. It just adds another step to the elimination process. It wasn't till the mink experience that I decided to get serious with trapping. We used leg traps when I was a kid but not since then. I got the smallest leg trap that Cabelas sells but it was still too strong for mink and weasels. Since then I've been learning snares and conibears. The latter are kill body traps. You have to be very careful with them or they'll break a bone.

Or maybe just milking a joke for all it's worth. You know how goats are, always horning in on things, but never getting the point.

What do you call an unemployed goat?
Billy Idol.

What do you call a goat at sea?
Billy Ocean.

What do you call a goat with one ear?
Van goat.

What do you call a spastic goat?
Billy the kid.

What do you call a goat on a mountain?
Hillbilly.

What do you call a goat that lip syncs?
Billy-Vanilli.

What do you call a Spanish goat with no back legs?
Gracias.

What do you call a redneck who owns 6 goats?
A pimp.

What do you call a goat with a beard?
Goatee!

What do you call the best 'butter' on the farm?
A goat!

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote:

I bet they don't either!

 

[bamadude]

Too funny

 

[ChickenCanoe]

@ChickenCanoe Sneaking in another puff for the sights and wonders of St. Louis I see

Yeah, I think planes were grounded for about 3 weeks in most of Europe, don't know if it would be as severe if it were to happen again, as towards the end of the ban they had done quite a few test flights in the ash and apparently it wasn't as harmful to the planes as they originally estimated.

Busted!

I'll pass as one being on those test flights.

Congratulations SCG. Do you feel legal now? LOL!

CC, you could never be a thread killer.

Born in 68, and grandfathered....your still a youngun.

Yes, we need to change the name to Backyard Eagles.

Talons hurt!

1952

took this off facebook. someone found this posted and took a pic of it.
Added the caption "you just can't make this stuff up-must have been someone NOT
from the country"

I've seen that one before, I love it. I believe it too.

The best jokes are true stories. Yeah, why is it that things said in the country fall into that category. It allows one to wear a smile frequently.

 

[Bunnylady]

Red Wolves range once included all of the SE of this continent as far west as Missouri to Texas. When they decided that Red wolves were on the brink of extinction, they captured all that remained in the wild. By then they were all in Louisiana and Texas. That was 1980 when they were officially declared extinct in the wild. They brought them to the endangered wolf center here where they bred them and DNA tested them to determine which were pure and which were crosses with coyotes and dogs. Eventually they had a group they knew were pure. By 1986 they were able to release 8 into the wild in northeast North Carolina. A couple years later they released some in the Great Smoky Mountain park but with low prey density they left the park so wildlife service removed them and relocated them to the Alligator River Refuge in NC. Since then some have been released in Florida and Georgia. The wolf center has shared the wolves with other places like Wolf Park in Indiana and Parks at Chehaw in Georgia.
They're a beautiful animal and all that exist today trace their roots to St. Louis county.

As you can imagine, releasing predators into even thinly populated areas hasn't met with 100% approval. In the last few years, eastern North Carolina has been inundated by a rising tide of coyotes; a number of red wolves (which are a protected species) have been shot, apparently being mistaken for coyotes (which they resemble).

http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/02/15/3624739/dogs-life-among-red-wolves.html

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I have to agree.
Releasing wolves in Yellowstone was extremely controversial.

Some even oppose releasing prey animals like elk and bison.
The bison in Yellowstone get harassed by ranchers every time they leave the park.
People opposed the restoration of Elk here in in MO at Peck Ranch wildlife area.

But would our quality of life be better if they were all extinct?

Coyotes and raccoons are invasive species that profited from the eradication of the top predators.
Coyotes once were only in the southwest and raccoons were once only in the southeast. Both cover the continent now.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

You guys are great! I love a good (or bad) pun.

I got the goat haus cleaned out, the duck enclosure cleaned out and their coop moved to the winter location within their "run" for ease of shoveling in the winter. I then left the goats in with the chickens because the goat area is so muddy from all the rain we've had recently, I want to give the goats a chance to "air out" so to speak, before they get ringworm or hoof rot. Hopefully they behave in with the chickens. They threw a verbal fit when they realized I was leaving them in there and not taking them into the people house with me.

 

[LindaB220]

I love messing with people like that.
A friend with silkies keeps getting asked about her rabbits.

Before I became interesting in raising chickens, (last year) I had never heard of or seen a silkie. Bizarre!!!!