I find the discussion of Skunks, Raccoons and now Bats relevant for chicken people. These are animals that can really be a problem to our feathered friends. Skunks definitely leave a mark on the environment and Raccoons can be nasty. Bats fly around taunting the chickens singing "I can fly without feathers losers". Very upsetting to chickens who have an inferiority complex already.
Just sayin'
Ol' George
--- In CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com, "wildliferescue29" <wildliferescue29@...> wrote:
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> Since bats carry rabies more often than any other species, my suggestion is to never handle them.
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> If you must remove one that appears healthy (clinging to a wall) wearing gloves, take a drinking glass and cover the bat, (during the day bats don't move much unless swatted at) then take a piece of cardboard and tip the glass just enough to be able to slip the cardboard under the opening of the glass trapping the bat inside. Take it outdoors and release on the ground away from pets.
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> Nets are not suggested for capturing because they can frighten the bat and they'll take flight and/or get out of the net. Then you'll have a bat flying around your house...like in the movie, 'The Great Outdoors'!
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> Should you find a bat lying on the ground during the day, leave it be or if necessary, destroy it by smacking it with the back of a shovel until dead. Wearing gloves, pick it up with the shovel (not your hands) and place it in a plastic bag and dispose of in the garbage.
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> Bats are an important part of the ecosystem and responsible for eating gazillions of mosquitoes and healthy ones shouldn't be destroyed if at all possible. Right now, there is an epidemic of 'white nose syndrome' in bats and it's killing them off by the millions. It's a kind of fungus and no one is entirely sure how they contract it. In the meantime, we're losing them at an alarming rate.
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> Sue
> WLR
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> "Melanie Sidden" <tigger1972@> wrote:
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> > Wow Sue I didn't know that about bats. Maybe that explains the bat me and my husband seen along the creek in the mountains when we were out gold panning. It was laying on the dirt beside the river. It was alive as I seen it moving. I just thought it was hurt. We didn't touch it or mess with it, just left it were it was. But good to know possibly rabies infected bat.
> > Mel
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