Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[farmerjan]

Saw a bunch of the vultures out at the one pasture where there are some small calves. Thought we had lost one but they were just sitting around on the round bale.... they will attack a small calf though.... the cows were pretty unhappy and when one landed on the ground the cow charged it and it took off. Going to get the .410 shotgun out and ......

 

[Mike CHS]

The dogs keep them away when they are with the sheep but unfortunately, they aren't in with them when they are lambing. A friend of ours lost so many lambs a couple of years ago that he sold out. A neighbor caught them going after a calf as it was being born and the cow was having a fit. Farm Bureau handles the Federal permits and issues sub permits to take up to three at a time and you can get additional permits but normally taking one vulture makes the rest go away.

 

[Bruce]

3 at a time, then you reload and get 3 more if they come back ;0

 

[Mike CHS]

3 at a time, then you reload and get 3 more if they come back ;0

So far I have only needed to kill one as the rest fly away not to come back for months. Then it seems like they forget.

 

[Baymule]

What do you do with them after you shoot one?
My Daddy battled crows in his garden. Crows are real smart, but when he was able to shoot one, he tied it to a pole in his garden. NO crow would come near his garden!

 

[Mike CHS]

What do you do with them after you shoot one?
My Daddy battled crows in his garden. Crows are real smart, but when he was able to shoot one, he tied it to a pole in his garden. NO crow would come near his garden!

Tie a sting around a leg and hang them from a tree. The rest of the bunch won't come around again. I have shot two that fell in the railroad tunnel so I couldn't get them but they still left the area.

 

[Mini Horses]

We have buzzards, black, not thinking kind you have. They usually only go after dead or road kill. I have noticed a couple skunks on the roadside of late, an area I travel frequently, And also that the buzzards haven't touched them! Not that I blame them But, seems it's not something they care for The deer kill and that possum I provided, they cleaned up fast.....skunks just lay there, stink, and dry up.

Just an observation.

 

[farmerjan]

The true "buzzard" is the "turkey buzzard"..... naked necks..... very slow moving and awkward.
The killing ones are black, with some white under the wings... known as the Mexican black buzzard. They are killers, not just scavangers. They will go after and kill calves, lambs, even attack a cow while calving.... I had them go after and attack a couple of baby calves that had gotten scours.... had them in the shed attached to the big barn at one place.... big enough shed to back a hay wagon in , they were inside under it and the black bstds were in there picking at the rear ends and eating the buttholes... got one calf's eyes...... I got 3 of the sorry SOB's.... all the black ones. Had to kill the calves too.....
Had about 15 after a heifer that had just calved at a pasture..... the owners daughter was there and she took the 4 wheeler down in the pasture and stayed there until I got there.... I was on my way home from work when she called me.... once the calf got up and nursed a little, I "walked" the heifer and her calf down into the trees/brush where the sorry sob's don't like to go because they can't fly in and out easily. They are no good pieces of SH!T......
You can google them and find hundreds of stories about how bad they are getting.

 

[Mini Horses]

I must have the turkey kind? They don't hang except at a scavange site. Thankfully!!

 

[NEWCOMER]

Nice to see you working on a dream! I'll be watching the progress

Me too!