I don't imagine the poor dog saw the humor in the situation but I'll bet it looked funny. LOL The old saying is "they won't let go til lightening strikes" but you can't always count on a bolt of lightening when you need one. Better keep the hatchet handy. I think I may have some turtle meat in the freezer. Have to make me up a soup to warm me on a cold winter day.
Murder @ the Inn
Cajun i never had turtle soup mama always fried them like chicken daddy did make muligan stew out of wild rabbit's.
Sometimes on sunday we would have fried rabbit and turtle with vegetables out of the garden and it was so good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn8EQ0azXpQ
This is fun. Highly recommended.
That was so funny down here we call it grabblin and alot of men did it back in the Day even my Daddy!
Thanks Twiggy i Will show this to my DH he will get a kick out of it!!!
You couldn't pay me enough to try it. I wonder what they sell for.
I've seen on tv where they go grabbling for catfish. I showed to my son and suggested he might want to take it up as a hobby. He made it very clear that the only thing he was going to be catching would have to be on the end of a line. He sets trot lines a lot and hates the turtles because they steal his bait.
Ain't enough money in the world to get me to do that. I chose a safe profession. I was a fire fighter!
They finger fish for catfish here and I wouldn't do that either. I'll eat all the fish and turtle I can get but if that was the way I had to get it, I'd be eating carrots.
that guy on the u tube video is not a brain surgeon. I can tell
Seriously. I love it when he says he tries not to smile much cuz he knocked his teeth out with a chainsaw... HA!
That explains him having so teeth. I wonder what knocked his brains out? LOL
TWO MORE MURDERS TODAY.....HAWKS. I FOUND THEM EATING MY BABIES!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! JUST DON'T KNOW HOW TO STOP IT.
How about stringing a combination of tinsel and bird netting across large areas?! Very sorry for your losses. We've had the same thing and have had to confine the young ones til they learn to run for cover. If you were able to somehow make the area overhead a maze of net and sparkle the hawks might be confused enough to back off...Is there any way to downsize from that 3 acres for a short while?
I just bought 2 - 50 x 50 ft aviary nets. I am going to string it up in the trees over the pasture to give them some cover.
Great -that has worked for me...I think more because they can't get a good read on 'em than because they're strong.
InnBetween how is it going with your chickens and the hawk i hope you haven't had anymore problems?
Harmonyplace,I feel for you, I have lost 2 chickens to a possum now, it makes me sad and mad as I have a 6 foot fence around the whole yard and a coop as tight as fort knox not a crack to squeeze into, I have had an owl attack, numerous hawks and I think this thing was an eagle of some kind, it was a monster, now I find a possum "whom I normally love possums" grab one of the newer babies out of the coop and drag him off, I couldn't believe it, I thought he was stealing eggs, NOT CHICKENS. After burying him I thought I as not getting any more chickens and ducks, I have coyote proofed and bobcat proofed as much as humanly possible, short of a concrete wall, which I gave serious thought to, I GIVE UP
total of 4 lost to hawks. waiting for the nets to arrive.
makj. I used to have an electric fence around the top it kept the possums and coons out. I just put it around the top of the fence.
thanks for the info, always seems like something, short of a cement wall and barbed wire around the top, then I see someone that does nothing and they have no problems...... go figure
Hawks are a problem here in NJ. I woke up the other morning and one was sitting right on top of my outdoor pen. Thank god that we put chicken wire across the top.(btw, a chicken will get caught in the bird netting, BUT also will the hawk, and that is not considered killing it, it is a accidental death) We scared it away and it hasn't been around lately. I was told to get as many bird feeders out and bring in the mocking birds and some other bird that I can't remember that will torment the hawk, also, crows wared off the hawks. I get excited when I see crows in the am, then I know that I can let my girls out. My Guinea Fowl is was alerted me the first time that it came for a visit. They will wake the neighborhood with all the racket,(more then their normal noise)alerting the chickens to run for cover. Just my .02. Everone have a great day!
I plan to hang the netting about 10ft high on large poles. It still has not arrived. Glad the company I ordered from read my urgent message to ship as fast as possible. I think they are shipping via mule train.
At this point if the hawks get caught in the netting I really don't care. I am sick to death of the murdering SOB's. 2 red tails and 1 coopers. They seem to take turns terrorising the girls. With the price of feed sky high, I can't afford to have egg production slack off and it has. I am not even making enough money on egg sales to pay for 1/3 of the feed bill. Before the hawks and the broncitis, they were at least covering their own feed costs.
Anyway. I clip my chickens wings and they don't fly up more than a couple of feet off the ground so I am not worried about them getting caught int he netting. For the hawks, C'EST LA VE !
I feel for ya! I just lost two darling Cochin chicks this week to a stupid CAT! It's a feral cat and it's in the trap this morning.. so it's one less predator for THIS week anyway!
I agree.. it never stops... soooo frustrating!
I hope your netting helps and gets here SOON.
one more murder before I could get the netting up. the company I bought it from was in no hurry to send it out. I put it up yesterday and today was a good day. but I still lost one of my special girls yesterday. My salmon faverolle girl. so sad she was so beautiful and sweet.
Oh I'm so sorry well at least they will be safe now and you will not have to worry so much :)
Gosh.. I'm so sorry InnBetween.. that is terrible.. but at least now you can rest easy! We try so hard to give them a good life.. I'm beginning to think it's impossible to think of everything..
Enjoy the good time. :)
ZZ I know how you feel i had pigeons in a little ground pen for 2 months just a big circle of wire with a canvas top. Took those out and put in my white face black spanish to give them some much needed space. About 1 week later something killed one of the hens and i had to move them.
I feel like we are being watched and just when we get comfortable something come's along to make us uneasy again.
Folks, I had an enclosed coop, with a small toddler swimming pool on 5 gal buckets for my baby chicks. They kept disappearing!! Finally found the culprit...a six ft long bull snake! How he/she got to them, I have never figured out, unless he could raise himself up nearly three feet and grab them from their 8 in deep pen! If it's not one thing, it't your mother!
WOW! Determined lil predators, huh? That's just amazing. Sorry you lost your chicks. :-(