Unexpected Visitor

[casportpony]

Thing is, Kskingbee... You can't ever depend on a predator to eat the bird you want them to, they tend to prefer your favorite birds. The ones that are hateful must put off a nasty smell or something!

Too funny!

-Kathy

 

[KsKingBee]

Nice pelt ya got there

It is a nice one! I called my trapper buddy who comes and gets my skunks and coons to come get it. He was happy to get such a fine specimen, it is probably stretched on the rack by now. He told me he was up to 85 skunks, not a good season for him, but he didn't do much trapping during the holidays and the bitter cold. That shot was 280 yards through the neck from my master bedroom door.

 

[zazouse]

It is a nice one! I called my trapper buddy who comes and gets my skunks and coons to come get it. He was happy to get such a fine specimen, it is probably stretched on the rack by now. He told me he was up to 85 skunks, not a good season for him, but he didn't do much trapping during the holidays and the bitter cold. That shot was 280 yards through the neck from my master bedroom door.

Glad it went to good use, hate that things have to be killed but totally understand and getting something useful from it is a bonus.

I have only had to dispatch a yote one time caught it in my goat barn and shut the door on him, talk about scarry trying to get a shot in him when he was hiding under some old hanging nest boxes .

Great shot what did ya use?

 

[zazouse]

The same lead poison that worked on the 'yote works wonders on guineas.

Love to see ya shoot a guineas on the run like when the males are chasing each other..... ding, ding, ding ding

 

[KsKingBee]

What did I use? OK, background info. I owned and operated Bullseye!, my indoor shooting range in Wichita for 20 years, I sold it in '09 and retired to beekeeping on the family farm. On other forums I am called Bullseye Bill. The rifle I keep at that door is one of my varmint/league rifles, a Remington 700 VSSF (Varmint Stainless Synthetic Fluted) heavy barrel .223 with a Leupold Vari-X III, 6.5 x 20 Target Dot scope. The load was a 50 grain Nosler ballistic tip bullet loaded at 3150 fps.

You DID ask.....

 

[KsKingBee]

Love to see ya shoot a guineas on the run like when the males are chasing each other..... ding, ding, ding ding

Like one of those cartoon shooting galleries.

I bet that coyote in the goat shed was exciting, you never know when or if a wild animal will turn on you especially when it is trapped.

 

[zazouse]

For sure when i saw him in there i shut the barn door and went and got the gun, i had big windows with hardware cloth on them and i walked around the entire barn look to see where he was, had me stumped as there wasn't nothing in there but goat poop and them hanging nest boxes on the wall, turns out he wedged himself under them boxes so tight he looked like part of the wall and feathers, took a shot to get him out and chased him with 2 more bullets till he finely dropped, sure got the blood pumping wondering if he was gonna come thew one of them windows before i got him.

One morning i went out to the barn to check on the goats that were due to kid , it was cold and wet out so i was a bit worried , when i opened up the door a goat was laying next to the wall and perched between it's shoulder blades was a big ol rat trying to stay warm on that goats back, seen some crazy stuff here threw the years.

 

[KsKingBee]

I am having problems on another thread getting the pictures to load. So I will try here.

A picture of the peas paying their last respects.

 

[KsKingBee]

These are the labels from the Country Acres Game Bird Starter / Breeder I use, supposedly it is made by Purina. $14.10 per 50 lb bag.

Max salt - 0.8000% !!!!!!!

And this is the back, it tells you how much of this product to add to grain to reduce the protein level.




And this is the cat food made by the same company, no sodium % listed...
$26.72 per 40# bag.



And ingredients;

 

[DylansMom]

These are the labels from the Country Acres Game Bird Starter / Breeder I use, supposedly it is made by Purina. $14.10 per 50 lb bag.

Max salt - 0.8000% !!!!!!!

And this is the back, it tells you how much of this product to add to grain to reduce the protein level.




And this is the cat food made by the same company, no sodium % listed...
$26.72 per 40# bag.



And ingredients;

Lets face it, we all know how bad it is for us, but everything tastes better with salt! French fries just are not French fries without salt. I'm guessing the same is true for dog, cat, poultry and probably all other feeds, they just taste better with salt. What good is a feed if your animals turn their noses up at it? My cats have done so many times, wonder if salt content played any part in that? I don't know that we can get away from it and it would be nice to see some info with studies to back it up that would tell us how much is TOO much ?

Not that I am recommending it, but my great grandmother ate salt by the ton. She would pour salt on her plate until the bottom was white then drag her fried chicken thru it, you could see the salt coating that chicken. She salted everything. Bless her soul she passed peacefully at home in bed at the age of 96, didn't seem to hurt her at all, she was never even on high blood pressure meds. Go figure????