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scoobyscotlad
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FiringOnAllFour wrote:
Obviously, we don't have major predators here any more. Mind you, crows can do an awful damage to a cereal field that is just peeping, and you just can't kill enough of them to do any good.
Badgers are a new problem for our new crop - maize - they will pull the cobs off and flatten areas, usually at the far side of a field that you tend not to get to. And of course, we aren't allowed to do away with them.
Greyback crows, less common but aggressive, will attack new born lambs in the field and pick their eyes out.
It could be worse,at least they don`t turn around and put you or your dog up a tree
Had to laugh at the Rottweilers turnin tail,
but i am sure in the situation it ain`t no laughin matter.
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1/11/2008, 12:31
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Mooramba
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Re: Hey Smous, do the dairies in South Africa have problems losing
Every so often we get a kangaroo go through the farm and the cows go nuts.
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4/11/2008, 7:46
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Jeash
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Re: Hey Smous, do the dairies in South Africa have problems losing
We don't have too many poisonous snakes in our area, all we have is a rattle snake called the Masagwa rattler which isn't deadly, it is also rare. I spend a lot of time in the woods and have never seen one in my lifetime. However, my mom is from the south and they have Copperheads, Timber Rattlers, cottonmouths and other poisonous snakes. When I visit my uncles in the summer we normally take and burn a weedy area by their yard. We surround it with people standing on ATVs armed with shotguns. We then set it on fire, and anything that slithers out of the grass is obliterated.
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23/3/2009, 18:40
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doircath
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Re: Hey Smous, do the dairies in South Africa have problems losing
Smous had the pleasure of visiting dairies in your country in Sept 07. We were mainly centered around Port Elizabeth. Got to meet some really good pasture farmers. Beautiful country. They all had similar tales to your first post. One fella said he had to get rid of all his sheep because lambs were been stolen on hin every night. "Takeaways" is what lambs are called!!!
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24/3/2009, 20:01
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Jeash
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Re: Hey Smous, do the dairies in South Africa have problems losing
All of the dairy profits must be going to the sperm peddlers.
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31/3/2009, 16:13
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