"WHILE YOUR CHICKENS ARE SLEEPING" Video Series

[Lazy Farmer]

Great series of videos! Looks like you are having quite a bit of success with your traps too!

Catch almost every night for 2 months now
Developers are strip mining THOUSANDS of farm acreage to build the Equestrian Utopia they have named WORLD EQUESTRIAN CENTER OCALA.

HISTORICAL FARM LAND seizure. Wildlife is RUNNING.
Our county commissioners are not serving the community they represent. AND are throwing $$$$$$$$$$$$ to the state's greedy gov to build the super toll hwy to cut the state in half 2-ish miles from our farm.

EMANATE DOMAIN ​

Money Money.




In the mean while... lets distract our worries with coyottes, red tail foxes, coons, opossoms & SNAKES. And soon enough I'll night cam some circus critters.. lol


We mounted trail cams everywhere ... across the street pointed at our gate..

Who would figure horses are hanging out outside your front gate?

Trail cams are interesting to say the least..

 

[centrarchid]

Can you take steps to keep the critters out of the runs where traps currently located? I went through process of excluding critters from roosting birds, then contact with actual pens, then runs / barn area, and finally even outer perimeter fence of where birds mostly free-range.

 

[Mimi13]

Catch almost every night for 2 months now
Developers are strip mining THOUSANDS of farm acreage to build the Equestrian Utopia they have named WORLD EQUESTRIAN CENTER OCALA.

HISTORICAL FARM LAND seizure. Wildlife is RUNNING.
Our county commissioners are not serving the community they represent. AND are throwing $$$$$$$$$$$$ to the state's greedy gov to build the super toll hwy to cut the state in half 2-ish miles from our farm.

EMANATE DOMAIN ​

Money Money.




In the mean while... lets distract our worries with coyottes, red tail foxes, coons, opossoms & SNAKES. And soon enough I'll night cam some circus critters.. lol


We mounted trail cams everywhere ... across the street pointed at our gate..
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Who would figure horses are hanging out outside your front gate?

Trail cams are interesting to say the least..
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I am so sorry all that is happening. I know what I’m fixing to say won’t mean anything to many, but here goes anyway. For those of us old enough to have made memories and acquire a certain level of nostalgia nothing could be worse than to see an old homeplace dismantled or even just disfigured, for that matter. It breaks my heart every time I drive by my granddaddy’s old farm. Literally I cry. It has remained as a little plot of land that used to be a small working farm, teeming with animal life, buzzing with equipment, and beautifully adorned with gardens full of wonderful food, but has just been let fall into disrepair something terrible.

All my memories of the goings on half a century ago are still in my mind and I visit them often.

The push for progress isn’t necessarily the best for everything or everyone. We have got to leave some of this green farmland as is. Concrete isn’t always best for prosperity’s sake.

I could go on and on.

 

[Mimi13]

It may be only on my end, but each video seemed to stop and remain a still image at 20 seconds. Any clues?

 

[Howard E]

Connie......thanks for posting those.

To paraphrase Capt. Renault in Casablanca........most of us would be "shocked.....shocked" to discover what goes on outside at night.....perhaps within a few feet of our front or back doors......let alone the chicken house.

The threat is always there.

Videos like that also serve to help us understand how these animals work to probe the perimeter looking for a way in. While I"m not a big advocate of trapping in general, preferring to just build predator proof housing........if a person does want or need to trap an animal, seeing how this plays out also means they play right into our hands.
Rather than putting a baited trap in the vicinity of the where the animal shows up.....put it in a place that makes it appear to be an entry into the house or run.....no bait required at all. Animal thinks it has found a weak spot and walks into the trap to be caught.
Another observation.......when you see the ruckus a captured coon makes, you realize that when it comes to some of the bigger coons out there, the standard Havahart live traps may not be up to the task. They can tear it up and get away.....much wiser for the wear. There may be at least a dozen companies.....one's most of us have never heard of......that make much heavier live cage traps. These are what the professional ADC folks use. The cost 2X to 3X what a havahart does, are not generally available locally like a havahart is, but will hold up under the strain.

 

[Mimi13]

I will have to say the equestrian center is absolutely beautiful.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

I am so sorry all that is happening. I know what I’m fixing to say won’t mean anything to many, but here goes anyway. For those of us old enough to have made memories and acquire a certain level of nostalgia nothing could be worse than to see an old homeplace dismantled or even just disfigured, for that matter. It breaks my heart every time I drive by my granddaddy’s old farm. Literally I cry. It has remained as a little plot of land that used to be a small working farm, teeming with animal life, buzzing with equipment, and beautifully adorned with gardens full of wonderful food, but has just been let fall into disrepair something terrible.

All my memories of the goings on half a century ago are still in my mind and I visit them often.

The push for progress isn’t necessarily the best for everything or everyone. We have got to leave some of this green farmland as is. Concrete isn’t always best for prosperity’s sake.

I could go on and on.

I'm not bitter over it. Progress is unstoppable.
They won't stop until they finish building homes for another 100 million people to move here. I will be dead and long gone. Ever see 400 million scared people try to evacuate a peninsula with only one way out when a disaster strikes? It ain't gunna happen.

It may be only on my end, but each video seemed to stop and remain a still image at 20 seconds. Any clues?

Might be your browser... we operate Windows XP SP2 and they are fine.

Connie......thanks for posting those.

To paraphrase Capt. Renault in Casablanca........most of us would be "shocked.....shocked" to discover what goes on outside at night.....perhaps within a few feet of our front or back doors......let alone the chicken house.

The threat is always there.

Videos like that also serve to help us understand how these animals work to probe the perimeter looking for a way in. While I"m not a big advocate of trapping in general, preferring to just build predator proof housing........if a person does want or need to trap an animal, seeing how this plays out also means they play right into our hands.
Rather than putting a baited trap in the vicinity of the where the animal shows up.....put it in a place that makes it appear to be an entry into the house or run.....no bait required at all. Animal thinks it has found a weak spot and walks into the trap to be caught.
Another observation.......when you see the ruckus a captured coon makes, you realize that when it comes to some of the bigger coons out there, the standard Havahart live traps may not be up to the task. They can tear it up and get away.....much wiser for the wear. There may be at least a dozen companies.....one's most of us have never heard of......that make much heavier live cage traps. These are what the professional ADC folks use. The cost 2X to 3X what a havahart does, are not generally available locally like a havahart is, but will hold up under the strain.

Thanks for the reply. The bigger coons are twisting the metal in my traps. Especially if they trip it early and containment is extended.
We are using snare traps for the coyotes It's not a pretty site Gotta dispatch pretty quick because the screaming. I won't post that. Not family friendly.

I will have to say the equestrian center is absolutely beautiful.

It is a city. Like The Villages on the other side of our county.
I hear the least expensive home is only $500,000. What a deal. Shopping malls, 5 star restaurants, golf courses and tons more.
.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Can you take steps to keep the critters out of the runs where traps currently located? I went through process of excluding critters from roosting birds, then contact with actual pens, then runs / barn area, and finally even outer perimeter fence of where birds mostly free-range.

This particular structure was erected by us 10 yrs ago when we first bought the property. It is secluded from the rest of our poultry houses.It got swallowed by pigs & goat paddocks. It is out in a far paddock on the property line(ish) and our dogs can't patrol the zone. 6 other hen quarters can be K-9 patrolled. Eventually we would finish the 6 foot wide dog run that will completely surround our property.. like a crocodile mote.. lol.

But we have slowed down our growth because of the billionaires are sucking up 5 zip codes at the moment.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Dogs invited back into the remote pen.

 

[centrarchid]

Dogs invited back into the remote pen.

Try a little hotwire.