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[Stumpfarmer]

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I wonder if my cats are going to be arrested for eating a few birds? And I hope skunks are not protected because have shot approx 10 in one day. Hmmmmm, racoons, are they protected?

I don't allow target practice on small birds either, what we said was (somewhat) in jest. There is also the law to protect your livestock and property. Shoot, shovel, shut up.

Which is the rule we follow for stray dogs (when we can get to them), cougars, bears, and coyotes. Unfortunately getting a clear shot that doesn't endanger the neighbors has gotten to be pretty tricky; good thing the cougars usually keep on going until they hit the heavily wooded large-lot subdivision over by Long Lake.

The song birds (actually migratory birds) thing is actually a federal law in service to an international treaty, and is, for the most part, enforced against people who are trafficking in feathers and eggs, and secondarily as a tool in planning large structures to avoid migration corridors. Even cats (which the Audubon Society believes kill millions of small birds a year) are far behind cars and skyscrapers in the annual death of small flying things.

On the other hand, I just about died of fright about ten minutes ago when the big dumb RSL rooster (who I call Gonzo in absence of any actual official name) snuck up behind me and crowed while I was concentrating on getting a good photo of a newly blooming apple tree glowing in the morning sun.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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I wonder if my cats are going to be arrested for eating a few birds? And I hope skunks are not protected because have shot approx 10 in one day. Hmmmmm, racoons, are they protected?

I don't allow target practice on small birds either, what we said was (somewhat) in jest. There is also the law to protect your livestock and property. Shoot, shovel, shut up.

Which is the rule we follow for stray dogs (when we can get to them), cougars, bears, and coyotes. Unfortunately getting a clear shot that doesn't endanger the neighbors has gotten to be pretty tricky; good thing the cougars usually keep on going until they hit the heavily wooded large-lot subdivision over by Long Lake.

The song birds (actually migratory birds) thing is actually a federal law in service to an international treaty, and is, for the most part, enforced against people who are trafficking in feathers and eggs, and secondarily as a tool in planning large structures to avoid migration corridors. Even cats (which the Audubon Society believes kill millions of small birds a year) are far behind cars and skyscrapers in the annual death of small flying things.

On the other hand, I just about died of fright about ten minutes ago when the big dumb RSL rooster (who I call Gonzo in absence of any actual official name) snuck up behind me and crowed while I was concentrating on getting a good photo of a newly blooming apple tree glowing in the morning sun.

LOL...In all actuality...I feed song birds in my back yard and I am throwing out some chick starter for them to fight over, to maybe help combat any Cocci they may have in their system. My cat (has since lost) but usually wears a bell on a collar to warn the birds. But occasionaly a person needs to spout death threats at something (bird in this iinstance) because they are frustrated with the damage they are doing. I don't care what the RCWs are because I have no intention of killing them....just needed to spout my frustration at them and stick needles in my little birdie voodoo dolls. Actually, I think I have finches for the most part. Are starlings considered song birds? They have a bounty over here on them. I am glad though that some one else is also familiar with the 3 S system. We, unfortunately, have been forced to do this with some meandering dogs over the years. Honestly, we usually use light bird shot and hit them in the rear end so they go home. They have only been a few deaths by us on neighbor dogs....and that was when they anialated an entire flock 10+ years ago and stood their ground (uncornered) when DH confronted them. That 1 shot killed 4 dogs and a galvanized stock tank. Hmmmm, we still have that stock tank, I could put babies in it.

I gotta go and dig that tank out of my mother's barn.

Bye ya' all. I hope I have not offended to many....this is just how my brain works and is my opinion. Hope you all have a nice day.

 

[pettec63]

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Glad your here! lots of nice people and great info here!

 

[pettec63]

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X4! Very cool and deserved!

x5 Congrats!

awesome CL!!!

 

[blueducklings]

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Hey Blue! Good to see/hear ya agian! You've been missed!

Thanks.
I miss chatting too, but had some things to do, then there is this very late spring, which is making my laundry room look like a jungle. lol

 

[pettec63]

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Which is the rule we follow for stray dogs (when we can get to them), cougars, bears, and coyotes. Unfortunately getting a clear shot that doesn't endanger the neighbors has gotten to be pretty tricky; good thing the cougars usually keep on going until they hit the heavily wooded large-lot subdivision over by Long Lake.

The song birds (actually migratory birds) thing is actually a federal law in service to an international treaty, and is, for the most part, enforced against people who are trafficking in feathers and eggs, and secondarily as a tool in planning large structures to avoid migration corridors. Even cats (which the Audubon Society believes kill millions of small birds a year) are far behind cars and skyscrapers in the annual death of small flying things.

On the other hand, I just about died of fright about ten minutes ago when the big dumb RSL rooster (who I call Gonzo in absence of any actual official name) snuck up behind me and crowed while I was concentrating on getting a good photo of a newly blooming apple tree glowing in the morning sun.

LOL...In all actuality...I feed song birds in my back yard and I am throwing out some chick starter for them to fight over, to maybe help combat any Cocci they may have in their system. My cat (has since lost) but usually wears a bell on a collar to warn the birds. But occasionaly a person needs to spout death threats at something (bird in this iinstance) because they are frustrated with the damage they are doing. I don't care what the RCWs are because I have no intention of killing them....just needed to spout my frustration at them and stick needles in my little birdie voodoo dolls. Actually, I think I have finches for the most part. Are starlings considered song birds? They have a bounty over here on them. I am glad though that some one else is also familiar with the 3 S system. We, unfortunately, have been forced to do this with some meandering dogs over the years. Honestly, we usually use light bird shot and hit them in the rear end so they go home. They have only been a few deaths by us on neighbor dogs....and that was when they anialated an entire flock 10+ years ago and stood their ground (uncornered) when DH confronted them. That 1 shot killed 4 dogs and a galvanized stock tank. Hmmmm, we still have that stock tank, I could put babies in it.

I gotta go and dig that tank out of my mother's barn.

Bye ya' all. I hope I have not offended to many....this is just how my brain works and is my opinion. Hope you all have a nice day.

Really ya gotta do what ya gotta do right? It's a shame people don't have sense enough to keep their dogs in their own yards, even in the country! There is no excuse for loose dogs, if people really loved their animals they would want to keep them in their yards!!! I don't let my dog run, and I never have, if I'm not out with her she's with me . Is as much to keep the animal safe as it is to keep other animals safe from them! I guess I just believe in defending property, livestock and pets included, if there is a threat to home and animals it's our right to defend it! I guess if the people who owned the dogs cared about them they wouldn't have been on your land attacking your flock!!! Ok, just my Good old American opinion!! Right to defend!!

 

[pettec63]

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Hey Blue! Good to see/hear ya agian! You've been missed!

Thanks.
I miss chatting too, but had some things to do, then there is this very late spring, which is making my laundry room look like a jungle. lol

Hey there! good see ya on!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Starlings are considered an invasive species, the avian equivalent of Tansy Ragwort and Spotted Knapweed; the USF&W people put up tower traps to try to get rid of the things at the refuge.

I like the way you think about medicated chick starter (well, and in general, y'know?) and may well have one of the blue eyed household members pick some up on Monday; DH works next door to Del's, so he gets lots of lists.

I'm waiting for the hired help to get here in service of finishing the chicken coop all in one swell foop, myself. She's got a small circular saw (nobody but my son can handle ours, and he's at work today) and will make fast work of cutting framing members, and everything else is pretty much ready to go together. It's a good thing she needs the work, as my son is moving to Ellensberg soon and my daughter was looking for apartments online last night.

I'm pretty sure Dad didn't decree that my cousin would be given 20% of the place so that I could hire people to do my carpentry, nor so that his sons could build skateboard ramps for my cattle (and a leased bull, argh, argh, argh) to skid on, but life's funny that way. (Consider this: 20% ownership of 36 acres of undeveloped, non-wetlands real estate in the Lacey UMZ is not nothing, by several orders of magnitude. Not that we're likely to sell any time soon; not only is there the whole sentimental attachment to a place that's been in the family for five generations, but the fact is that the six of us who'd have to sign on the dotted line can't agree on pizza toppings).

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Rereading 4312's post reminded me of another stock-tank story. Well sort of stock tank: look at my user name and think what watering troughs I'm likely to have. One 4th of July my cousin and his rowdy friends filled a tennis ball with black powder and blew up a 60 gallon cast-concrete bathtub and had to go scrounge for another watering trough.

We use the Rubbermaid ones now; modern bathtubs just aren't up to the strain of farm life.

 

[pettec63]

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Starlings are considered an invasive species, the avian equivalent of Tansy Ragwort and Spotted Knapweed; the USF&W people put up tower traps to try to get rid of the things at the refuge.

I like the way you think about medicated chick starter (well, and in general, y'know?) and may well have one of the blue eyed household members pick some up on Monday; DH works next door to Del's, so he gets lots of lists.

I'm waiting for the hired help to get here in service of finishing the chicken coop all in one swell foop, myself. She's got a small circular saw (nobody but my son can handle ours, and he's at work today) and will make fast work of cutting framing members, and everything else is pretty much ready to go together. It's a good thing she needs the work, as my son is moving to Ellensberg soon and my daughter was looking for apartments online last night.

I'm pretty sure Dad didn't decree that my cousin would be given 20% of the place so that I could hire people to do my carpentry, nor so that his sons could build skateboard ramps for my cattle (and a leased bull, argh, argh, argh) to skid on, but life's funny that way. (Consider this: 20% ownership of 36 acres of undeveloped, non-wetlands real estate in the Lacey UMZ is not nothing, by several orders of magnitude. Not that we're likely to sell any time soon; not only is there the whole sentimental attachment to a place that's been in the family for five generations, but the fact is that the six of us who'd have to sign on the dotted line can't agree on pizza toppings).

Yep if you can't agree on pizza toppings then land would definitely be an issue!! 5 generations!! That's awesome! I'm sure there's plans in place if negotiating is an issue?