Bruce's Journal

[Latestarter]

That's sure one way to look at it GB...

 

[farmerjan]

Let the ground hogs (wood chucks) start costing you a small fortune in machinery repairs like we have with broken spindles on a front tractor wheel.... I mean like let the family members pay for some of the "expenses of being HUMANE" ... Really, if you don't think it would bother her for you to have a broken leg then ..... sorry, that's being totally disrespectful of you and totally out of touch with real life.
We don't go out of our way to just kill them, but they are fair game in the hayfields and pasture fields where us or an animal can get injured from a tunnel collapsing. They are some of the most destructive animals there are and there is no rehoming here; I will not wish that problem on another soul, even my ex.....

 

[Bruce]

Evidently, not exactly accurate.

You don't really have a woodchuck problem. You have a people problem.

You got that right.

Woodchucks love cantaloupe ... BS. This b@stard/biotch sat there and took a freaking bath, never looked at the cantaloupe outside the trap let alone inside. What I didn't see was it coming up out of the hole. it must have come in through one of the "animal" doors on the east side of the little barn, they are kind of broken up. The only other images were of a mouse around 3:30 AM


Yes, you CAN fit both an adult White Rock AND an adult Ancona in a trap that will hold a coon or woodchuck

My fault, I didn't think to spring the trap when the girls were let out about 1 PM. Fortunately they got trapped only about 6 minutes before I had rounded all the other chickens up and given them scratch then went looking for the missing two. First picture is Yuki, second is Yue. Must have been quite a surprise for Yue when Yuki hit the trigger. That door must have slapped her tail pretty well.

BTW, I'm not putting a lot of stock in the camera's thermometer, it wasn't anywhere near 119°, maybe 85°.

 

[goatgurl]

well I guess that the good news is that yuki and yue were safe from the well groomed ground hog. another day perhaps

 

[Baymule]

I have a hard time wrapping my mind around such bleeding hearts, that they would let a destructive animal run amok on the property. Nope. Nada. Not happening here. But I realize that I am a bit different...…..always have been and I wouldn't have me any other way. My own sister wont' eat a meal at my house for fear that I might serve her a "poor little animal" that I raised, fed and cared for, made sure that the animal had a good life and got to act out it's natural behaviors and named it. But she sure will go to the grocery store or a restaurant and eat some mass produced animal that had nowhere near as good of a life as one of mine. Go figure.

Ok, off my rant now. I just don't get people like that. You are not alone, I have one of those in my family too, but at least there is a 3 hour drive between us and we don't live in the same house. Sadly, my friend , you are severely outnumbered. BYH is your safe place.

 

[goatgurl]

here @Baymule, let me help you down off that high horse. I know just how you feel tho. I work with my butcher shop, local farmers and hunters for hunger to donate to a food ministry and they had a whole 300# hog donated because the wife couldn't stand to eat something she had seen. just seen for crying out loud. people are so disconnected from their food sources. they think that the stuff at Walmart just falls over onto those styrofoam trays, no fuss, no muss. my ex mother-in-law wouldn't eat at my house because I might feed her something with goat milk or meat in it. suited me just fine, but let me tell you she could empty a gallon ice cream freezer made with fresh goats milk. people! ok, my butt looks kinda big up here on this high horse, think i'll get down now myself.

 

[greybeard]

Some of you are beginning to sound a mite like 'trigger happy cowboys/cowgirls' and it's beginnin to worry ol greybeard.

 

[Latestarter]

 

[Bruce]

All stock sweet feed.

 

[Baymule]

All stock sweet feed.

For your little friend?