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Pullstart

Great minds?  
 

 

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ri702bill

Living here only about 7 miles (as the Skyrat files!!) to the salt water - seagulls can be a brazen nuisance. Forget eating your lunch in the parking lot of a Fast Food joint with your windows down...

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ri702bill

Kevin - Confused - don't be. Those brazen birds will grab your taco or burger right out of your hand...!!  The closer you get to the beach, the worse it gets!!!

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Pullstart

I learned this from my little nephew.  “I’d punch him in the nose!”  :lol:

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Bill D
1 hour ago, ri702bill said:

Living here only about 7 miles (as the Skyrat files!!) to the salt water - seagulls can be a brazen nuisance. Forget eating your lunch in the parking lot of a Fast Food joint with your windows down...

Or the sunroof open!

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CCW
18 hours ago, Pullstart said:

 “I’d punch him in the nose!”  

 

Unfortunately punching in the nose would get you fined.

 

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Pullstart
5 minutes ago, CCW said:

 

Unfortunately punching in the nose would get you fined.

 


What if I had a chicken in the truck with me?  It was attacking my farm stock.

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CCW
35 minutes ago, Pullstart said:


What if I had a chicken in the truck with me?  It was attacking my farm stock.

 

If it is a support chicken that keep as a pet then you might get away with a slap on the wrist, wing? :D

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WheelHorse_of_course

Rat's cannot vomit. For this reason, they are very bait shy. They will try a very small amount of something. If they feel any bad effects they will not touch the same food for life. AFAIK this isn't the case for mice. So they need to be killed by the first dose or that particular brand isn't going to kill the rat in question.

 

So, with rats you have to rotate the poison bait. Back when I had rats I went to the farm store I bought 4-5 (maybe even 6) different kinds. I put out the first two kinds and later rotated in others.

 

For mice there is also several newer poisons that are less toxic to human (accidental poisonings are an increasing problem). One uses Vitamin D which rodents apparently cannot metabolize. Another uses corn gluten. And ISTR there's at least one other. These require regular consumption for a period of days, maybe longer. The key is to keep restocking them until all the rodents are gone.

 

It is amazing the wide variety of things one must learn as a farmer (and I was only a farmer for 10 years). Equipment repair, rodent control, soil testing, etc etc.

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WheelHorse_of_course
47 minutes ago, CCW said:

 

Unfortunately punching in the nose would get you fined.

 

Not to mention you would get beaked!

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WheelHorse_of_course

So when your 6 year old burps constantly and mother complains, the response should be "but it is adaptive". Good to know.

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