Coyotes, especially groups of them can be really tough on deer. The one thing they have over wolves is lack of fear of humans so they’ll come into areas that wolves will not.
One time after dark I was walking through a gully on the way home from the deer stand and there were multiple animals (wolves) walking along with me up at the top of one of the ridges. I had my BAR with four rounds but was still unnerving because they could’ve overtaken me of conditions were right. I walked at a steady but brisk pace and they stopped after a little while.
my cousin just got 600 gallons of heating oil, filled his house and the shop tanks. $4600.00 and some change. That 600 gal will last him about a year and a half. I normally burn between 8 and 10 cord a year to heat my house. At $900.00 a cord id be better off buying a oil furnace. Typically I don't/won't pay for wood. But my logging friend charges $700.00 for a straight truck of hardwood logs. (Last time I asked him.) They are good logs, but nothing he can sell to the mill.
This was several years ago now and i no longer help on this farm, but we had a really bad couple years with deer destroying a bean field that abbutted state game lands. Took 2 years with proof on trail cams that we had a herd af about 20 that would come in every morning and evening. After the second year we were given tags to take them out. No issues after that with crop damages. No meat went to waste, what we couldn't use ourselves was given away or donated.
I can pretty much agree with this list. Save ground hogs would go on the vermin list and fox would be close to the vermin list. Don't have beavers around here so no worries there.
It was July 1992 when I was up there. We camped in Grand Marais right on the lake the first night then left to go get our canoes, We spent the next 6 days in the boundary waters lake area. It was a college trip that I was "forced" to take to earn 2 credits in PE activity. Let me tell you a week long camping trip in the woods is not something anyone should do with strangers. The first night in the woods we made camp and unpacked the sealed steaks we had packed. A young girl in the group said well I am a vegetarian. The "guide" who was my Biology instructor said "well you will need to adapt or go hungry"
Here in my part of WV the dang ravens have become a huge headache for sheep farmers and even cattle farmers.Ravens will easily kill a lamb,and will pluck the eyes from a newborn calf if momma aint around. I used to have 4 ravens around my house,now I see about 50 at any given time. Smart birds for sure,and we can't legally shoot them like we can crows.
The biggest killer of chickens here by far is black knats. They will kill up to 100% of the meat birds on a bad year. The only animal problems we ever had with chickens were mink and skunk. The ducks I think got killed by coons. The ducks were in a chain-link run and left out at night. It looked to me like they nested right along the edge and a coon reached through and grabbed their necks. He just basically stripped their heads off.
I don't know, but if I was a sheep or cattle farmer and the ravens posed a problem to my livestock, I would take "some kind" of action. I'd have to do some research first, and see why the ravens were protected. But if I was losing animals, at least I don't think I'd have to worry about coming across a "collared" raven. I don't know if that comment will make sense to everyone, but I won't say too much more about it other than if I was a livestock farmer, I I wouldn't lose too much of my livelihood to freaking flying rats regardless of what the government tried to tell me.
The cougars are what worry me. We have had reports of them here for 25 years or more. The owner of a sawmill on the Iowa side used to offer a bounty on them. I cannot tell you if he was offering the bounty because he believed they existed and wanted proof or if it was because he believed they did not exist and wanted to dispel rumors. I do not know if it was claimed.
I do own a few cattle , and yes your post makes perfect sense, and I know exactly what you mean, and now it is my turn to not say much more.
Are they ravens or are they black vultures? I would talk you your sate Farm Burea office as they have pushed for legally killing black vultures and are getting sates to approve it.
If you shoot a collared one you toss it in the ravine with the rest. That would not worry me one bit
These are ravens,but yes the black vulture is here too. We call them "black headed buzzards". They do the same thing as the ravens.
Ya, I'm not a "go off half-cocked" kind of guy. I would first see why they are protected, but I also don't see how you're not able to make the problem go away if they're hurting your livelihood. Normally you're allowed to remedy the problem if a predator is hurting/killing your livestock.
Not me of course,but I do know a few people who have shot some very large crows.
Did you notice the comment made by the first guy?Apparently a buzzard is worth more than a calf .
It is done on a daily basis all over the area and nothing is said. The "protected status" is valid in some cases but is a political ploy in others. In Illinois rattlesankes are protected. Do you think anyone has ever been prosecuted for killing one? I doubt it.
That is fine. I have never had a problem admitting to doing things. As I have said in other posts I have a good relationship with our game warden and she knows how farming is. Her husband ...not so much.
I see that. I would go a bit further and say he values wildlife above human life. He talks about there being too many people. Well do something! Stop talking and get a vasectomy. Stop stupidity one snip at a time.
