Thanks for these links, I'm familiar with them. Please don't misunderstand; I'm not a 'Sensitive Sally' when it comes to deterring predation or nuisance wildlife, I have that problem too.
However, I do try to find humane ways in keeping my birds safe. I only rehab prey species, no predators...got enough of those without adding anymore to my property!
Since we're on the subject, I've tried absolutely everything to deter
'air strikes' (daytime hawks) with no success. Outside of killing them (something I don't engage in but some of my neighbors do) I've been told that if you kill them, in nothing flat, another one just takes their place...sigh*
After erecting a fence to keep coyotes and fox out, I've had no problems in that area, the fence keeps them at bay during the day and my birds are securely locked up at night. Now, it's the daytime hawks! Out of 30 chickies I raised this season, I have 7 left. This is the usual course for me...unfortunately :(
I give up. I think that I'll just keep larger birds; peas, turkeys, geese and ducks. The hawks don't bother them.
If anyone has 'new' ideas on how to prevent daytime air strikes from raptors (outside of killing them) I'd be MOST interested!
Sue
Wildlife Rescue
--- In CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com, "lafleche49" <hobbyguy@...> wrote:
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> Hi Sue, I am someone who preserves rare breeds of poultry and protects the wildlife on their farm by winter supplemental feeding and planting and maintaining proper nesting areas. I am also very careful about protecting the non target species from eating the rat and mouse bait or the dead rodents after the fact.
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> Here are a couple of articles that should be of interest to everyone who raises birds and animals of any sort. I am sure that as an animal rescue person there will be smoke coming out of your ears after you read all this and it it has had time to soak in. This is really not off topic because everyone here is a bird or animal raiser/ keeper of some sort. Some of this is going on almost in your back yard. Dean
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> http://www.naturalnews.com/031076_USDA_bird_deaths.html
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> Scroll down on the next link and read about all of the "other" species that are supposed to be protected by law but aren't. It is amazing what gets shoved under the carpet and what is released by the press as truth.
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