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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on February 25, 2010, 12:11:55 PM
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Oh my.
I thought this was a sequel to the chicken coop restaurant campfire, but it's not.
Sorry.
hedgehog (1000+ posts) Tue Feb-16-10 07:27 PM
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Did a hawk or eagle get one of my banties?
Here's what I found:
Blood stained snow with scattered feathers, the gizzard, comb and feet. That is, whatever took the bird apparently gutted it right there. There were no tracks to the site, but a couple wing prints in the snow. Going away from the site, there was a drag track with occasional wing prints for about 15', then a beak, then another 20' drag track, then nothing. I saw no footprints except for some large bird tracks right near the feathers. Those might be from one of my larger roosters, or maybe from a predator bird.
We live under a major migratory flyway for hawks and eagles near the eastern end of Lake Ontario, but it's awfully early for hawks to be winging through. We did spot a bald eagle a couple miles up river a week or so back.
cali (1000+ posts) Tue Feb-16-10 07:31 PM
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1. owl?
they'll go after chickens.
hedgehog (1000+ posts) Tue Feb-16-10 07:40 PM
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3. We have Great horned owls out back, too. This would have happened between 11 and 3 today, so I'm guessing not an owl. For a couple of years, we lost 1 hen to a hawk in the Spring and again in the fall. I don't know if it was the same bird chowing down on his way through or just happenstance.
Usually the birds can take cover beneath a large lilac bush, but not this time of year! I may leave the coop closed tomorrow lest this become a habit!
panader0 (1000+ posts) Tue Feb-16-10 07:33 PM
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2. When I had chickens, I put wire over the top of the coop
Owls, and hawks.
hedgehog (1000+ posts) Tue Feb-16-10 07:44 PM
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4. Our birds are free range over about 5 acres right around the house and barn.
We haven't lost very many over about 20 years; a couple to hawks, one or two to foxes and about a dozen or so to dogs at various times. Huskies are the worst- they just can't resist killing chickens. There was a fox den in the thicket on the far side of the barn two summers ago, but the foxes never messed with the chickens. They stayed up in the woods on the other side of the thicket.
wtmusic (1000+ posts) Tue Feb-16-10 07:55 PM
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5. That would be a distinct possibility
Peregrine falcons have moved into my neighborhood and have been eating up the pigeons and squirrels.
Tesha (1000+ posts) Tue Feb-16-10 07:58 PM
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6. Here in my part of New England (Boston's northwest 'burbs), hawks are active all year 'round.
They don't seem to be migratory in our area; we have at least one family of red-tailed hawks that lives on or immediately around our hilltop and we see others all around the area constantly`.
Turkey vultures also live in our area during the summer, but I don't think we see them during the winter.
LWolf (1000+ posts) Sun Feb-21-10 07:17 PM
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7. I have lost chickens to redtails, peregrines, and owls.
Last year I lost 4 young birds to a peregrine and one to an owl, who I caught in the act on my way to the barn one pre-dawn morning.
I have a coop and a small yard with wire over the top, but I let them free-range. It keeps the bugs and the feed costs down.
hedgehog (1000+ posts) Tue Feb-23-10 01:38 PM
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8. The eggs from the free range birds are just plain tastier.
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It's an honor to have your cat eaten by a hawk. Or an eagle. Whatever.
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Time to contact Blackie the ghost chicken. Get to the bottom of this.
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Time to contact Blackie the ghost chicken. Get to the bottom of this.
My thoughts, exactly! Seance anyone? Don't forget to give a shout out to UP!
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If anybody is inclined, the ghost chicken thing was before my time. Could you post a brief summary?
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If anybody is inclined, the ghost chicken thing was before my time. Could you post a brief summary?
undergroundpanther had a pet chicken named blackie. She loved that chicken. Anyway the sucker died. U-P claims the chicken's ghost visits her in dreams and warns her of stuff. Pretty wacky.
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If anybody is inclined, the ghost chicken thing was before my time. Could you post a brief summary?
Courtesy our lovely and gracious and witty and much-esteemed member, bijou, who kindly lodged it in the DUmping Ground, the "reference section" here:
http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,38567.0.html
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My thoughts, exactly! Seance anyone? Don't forget to give a shout out to UP!
Okay, I've kind of been dabbling in the New Age, spiritualist side of things, I'm by no means an expert but I did have a brief seance and managed to make contact with Blackie.
I asked about the missing bird and this is the response I received, verbatim:
Bwak....bwak...bwak....cluck...cluck....cluck....bwaaaak....bwaaaaaaakk.
Cluck...cluck....cluck....cluck......bwaak....BWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKKK!
I don't have a f*cking clue what any of that means.
(I may not have done it right.)
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Okay, I've kind of been dabbling in the New Age, spiritualist side of things, I'm by no means an expert but I did have a brief seance and managed to make contact with Blackie.
I asked about the missing bird and this is the response I received, verbatim:
Bwak....bwak...bwak....cluck...cluck....cluck....bwaaaak....bwaaaaaaakk.
Cluck...cluck....cluck....cluck......bwaak....BWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKKK!
I don't have a f*cking clue what any of that means.
(I may not have done it right.)
"Cluck...cluck....cluck....cluck......bwaak....BWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKKK!"
Blackie the ghost chicken was trying to say "f**k barack."
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It's an honor to have your cat eaten by a hawk. Or an eagle. Whatever.
I remember that shit!
The DUmmy complained bitched at another DUmmy that wanted to protect her cat from attack by the local hawk. The DUmmy praised Mother Gia for doing what is natural: a wild animal killing a domesticated pet that has zero skills or awareness to protect itself from said wild animal.
Another reason they are called DUmmys.
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I thought Frank was just being polite cuz some DUmbass had erectile dysfunction.
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Okay, I've kind of been dabbling in the New Age, spiritualist side of things, I'm by no means an expert but I did have a brief seance and managed to make contact with Blackie.
I asked about the missing bird and this is the response I received, verbatim:
Bwak....bwak...bwak....cluck...cluck....cluck....bwaaaak....bwaaaaaaakk.
Cluck...cluck....cluck....cluck......bwaak....BWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKKK!
I don't have a f*cking clue what any of that means.
(I may not have done it right.)
I knows what it says: "Some fracking DUmmy stole my cage, stacked cinder blocks on top and set it on fire. Now I am homeless and have to share the library computer and dumpster out back with some self-righteous bitch named Bobo-something.
Worst part is, she gets a wad of cash each month from the gummint and spends all of it on booze and weed. All I get is a little chicken feed and she won't share any of her weed.
Be-otch anyway!
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Thanks Frank, for the link to Blackie. I'm as speechless as everybody else.
That thread about the cat and the eagle must have been a doozy!
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Thanks Frank, for the link to Blackie. I'm as speechless as everybody else.
That thread about the cat and the eagle must have been a doozy!
Heh, heh, heh. Oh, it was, trust me!
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I knows what it says: "Some fracking DUmmy stole my cage, stacked cinder blocks on top and set it on fire. Now I am homeless and have to share the library computer and dumpster out back with some self-righteous bitch named Bobo-something.
Worst part is, she gets a wad of cash each month from the gummint and spends all of it on booze and weed. All I get is a little chicken feed and she won't share any of her weed.
Be-otch anyway!
Have you been taking lessons from Flippy Doo or something?
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Sounds like suicide...
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3WerkVMWyf0/ShTGdNIZmaI/AAAAAAAAAD8/KmAfl7zPikg/s320/ChickenSuicide.jpg
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Sounds like suicide...
Well if you lived with a DUmmie..........What did you expect the poor animal to do????
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That thread about the cat and the eagle must have been a doozy!
It took a long while, but I managed to disinter that one.
Chris was responsible; read not the original post, but further on down.
http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,15205.0/
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"Cluck...cluck....cluck....cluck......bwaak....BWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKKK!"
Blackie the ghost chicken was trying to say "f**k barack."
Ghost chicken, cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-05-07 09:02 PM
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43. harming a hawk is a felony, stop throwing stones
keep the cat indoors or feed the cat to the hawk, i really don't care which, but it is a felony to interfere with a North American raptor (bird of prey) without a license
cats are not endangered, they are an overpopulation, it is the right of the hawk to defend its territory and to feed
it is an honor to have your cat eaten by a hawk
people who care about their cats keep them indoors, no excuses, there is no natural habitat for the housecat in north america
Seems to me this DUmbass lives in Hawaii, but maybe I'm wrong. People who live in Hawaii know nothing of the real world.
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people who care about their cats keep them indoors, no excuses, there is no natural habitat for the housecat in north america
That rates right up there with one of the stooooopidest posts I've ever read coming from the DUmp! The hawk that comes after one of my barn cats is going to be dodging shotgun pellets! My cats have a purpose here at the ranch. The damned hawks sure as hell can't keep the mice out of my hay and grain! **** you, ya stinkin' hippie!