"WHILE YOUR CHICKENS ARE SLEEPING" Video Series

[Howard E]

Instead of snares. .....look into "cable restraints". Does the same thing......and less to no danger to non-targets.

Many states have an outright ban on locking snares, but do allow cable restraints.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Try a little hotwire.

There are thousands of lineal footage, pulsing 8K volts. They adapted and breech thru.
This pic(s) are of a post 10 feet away from those traps. Of course I just had this pic handy.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Instead of snares. .....look into "cable restraints". Does the same thing......and less to no danger to non-targets.

Many states have an outright ban on locking snares, but do allow cable restraints.

Snares are legal here. Sold at most of our feed stores. Ours are installed just outside our prop line fence in the 100 acre wood. It connects to the 2 million acres they are currently Earth Moving for future Floridians. That's where the real dangerous predators are digging (at our fence). Half a dozen coyote in 3 months. We raise swine and goats, and work the farm with side arms at night. Coyotes will eat the legs off a pig or goat while they are still alive. A pack will tug a war it's limbs off while they are alive.
They are vicious and a threat to our scores of stock. I would rather have a vicious predator snared and lamed than watch my herd get eating alive.

 

[centrarchid]

I would go the dog proof trap rout to control raccoons and opossums.

 

[cmom]

I live near Ocala. We have had a lot of coyotes. Most nights I would get a coyote on video on at least one of my cameras. When we first moved here we were the only house on the street. Over the years neighbors have divided up their property into parcels of maybe an acre or two. People are buying the land around us and building new homes or putting in manufactured homes. The closest to us is 10 acres. The couple divorced and the wife kept the house on 5 acres and the husband took the other vacant 5 acres which is next to us. He sold the property so now we have new neighbors. The woman who owned the 10 acres behind us passed away. Her family sold the property and now another new neighbor. Another neighbor who doesn't live as close had several coyote dens on his property. He gave some people permission to hunt them on his property. I have heard some shooting at night. For the past three months I have only seen coyotes every now and then. He said he hasn't seen them lately either. There was a time when by certain marks or something where I could tell some apart. They were kind of regular visitors. I don't know if the hunters got them or because of the new neighbors and the traffic. They are young people and they are always on the go. The coyotes know I have birds, but they also know I have electric wire around the coops and pens. Lots of videos...

 

[aart]

Cool thread!

 

[cmom]

I know I have posted these before

I have one of a owl that just killed a chicken. Several years ago I was finding dead birds so I put up a camera and it was an owl. After that I put netting over the pens.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Sorry I can't inject as much as I should/could. Our Hour Glass seems to pour sand way too fast anymore.
Thanks for the great reading in the mean while. I read faster than I type. I'll be back.

 

[cmom]

I know the feeling...

 

[Don 27]

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 could definitely relate.. A man's life use to revolve around his plot of earth. My fondest memories of my grand dad's farm was during spring right after the first plowing, you could you could tell by just looking at the soil it was promising. I also miss the times Running through the thick green pasture right before it was going to be grazed into the late summer. Marveling at how they built that old pole barn while feeding the cows. The amount of work done and memories that were made out into those fields clearing, planting, harvesting its something you'd never wana forget. That farm is long gone, now made up of homes and brush.. It's hard to explain but when you drive down our historic road and look upon all the farms that run along the street each one once supported a hard working family That broke their backs running those farms. Now most of them are vacant and developed, its hard not to gaze at it and just wonder WHY...,what happened? ....


. Don...