Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently patient fool!
I hate people who use big words just to make themselves look perspicacious.
"The only thing...more expensive than education is ignorance."~Ben Franklin
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." ~ Plato
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Bill Haynes wrote:
If you catch a skunk approach the trap calmly with a tarp protecting your self and lay it over the entire trap, after the tarp is enclosing the space skunks will rarely spray. pick up tarp, trap and skunk, and gift it to your least favorite neighbor at least fifteen miles from your farm!
Bring a book and a thermos of coffee as skunks will take an inordinate amount of time to vacate the trap, and close attendance will inspire an olfactory review of the performance from the skunks perspective.!
Bill Haynes wrote:My bet is Skunks,
Skunks are members of the weasel family
Skunks will kill every bird in the roost for sport, their preferred method of slaughter is cutting the arteries in the neck.
They will happily burrow to get under fences although a buried sheet of tin or stainless mesh will deter them long enough to fill the burrow with rock.....IF you check daily.
It would have to be a remarkable rooster to deter an adult Skunk,
Havahart traps, sized appropriately (larger is better than too small!) baited with cat food is your best bet for Skunks or Coons.
If Fluffy the cat goes after the cat food, pick up the trap and give her as much trauma as you can without incurring a vet bill!
If you catch a skunk approach the trap calmly with a tarp protecting your self and lay it over the entire trap, after the tarp is enclosing the space skunks will rarely spray. pick up tarp, trap and skunk, and gift it to your least favorite neighbor at least fifteen miles from your farm!
Bring a book and a thermos of coffee as skunks will take an inordinate amount of time to vacate the trap, and close attendance will inspire an olfactory review of the performance from the skunks perspective.!
A build too cool to miss:Mike's GreenhouseA great example:Joseph's Garden
All the soil info you'll ever need:
Redhawk's excellent soil-building series
James 1:19-20
Not all those who wander are lost - J. R. R. Tolkien
Love is the only resource that grows the more you use it.
David Brower
Caleb Mayfield wrote:Last year I had a possum get in the coop and it ate the head off a chicken and was trying to eat the head off the rooster when I got to it. If you have one, or know where you can borrow one, I would put up a trail camera for the next week or so. Odds are whatever did this will be back to see if they can do it again.
Nikki Corey wrote:If the head was actually missing, I would think raccoon. If upon further inspection, the head and neck are fine but the back has been munched on, I’d put money on dog. We had both on our property and coons were taking the heads and nothing else, dogs were making holes in their backs and a bobcat left only a hint of feathers (except the day he was interrupted and ran off, leaving a row of perfectly lined up dead birds. They were even all facing the same direction and ordered by size. If we hadn’t seen the bobcat ourselves, I would have wondered if it had been done by a human. It was super creepy!)
A build too cool to miss:Mike's GreenhouseA great example:Joseph's Garden
All the soil info you'll ever need:
Redhawk's excellent soil-building series
''If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high, you'd laugh and say nothing's that simple'' Roger Daltry
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