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Knobby
Joined: 13 Apr 2005
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Location: North Warwickshire
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| I dont leave them where they fall... !!! They go into the farmers "tip" ! & besides,no fox can get to my chooks !! |
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mojo
Joined: 13 Apr 2005
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Location: GLENAY north deux sevre FRANCE
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| Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 2:52 pm Post subject: |
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| dont wish bad wishes on yourself young knobby...........thanks about tip |
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fenwoman
Joined: 25 Nov 2005
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Location: Tydd St Giles, Cambridgeshire.
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| Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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| but what about the does with kits in the nest? I worry about little babies starving to death. |
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Knobby
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Location: North Warwickshire
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| Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | I worry about little babies starving to death. |
I worry about
a) Me starving to death when they eat all my vegetables !!
b) Seeing them suffer mith mixi |
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fenwoman
Joined: 25 Nov 2005
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Location: Tydd St Giles, Cambridgeshire.
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| Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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hmmmmmm!
You could protect the veggies with rabbit wire or electric tape, and mothballs scattered about.
Rabbits suffer myxi whether you shoot them or not. An adult doe with myxi wouldn't have babies in the nest I suppose.
There are some lengths I would not go to to protect my veggies and allowing a nest full of kits to die slowly from starvation is one of them. A few veggies is simply not worth that sort of suffering. I would protect them by other means which I already have to do since I have free range rabbits here, or I would buy veggies in. Killing milky does with kits in the nest is not something I could ever justify.
I do understand that we are not all the same and animals suffering affects some of us more than others. |
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mojo
Joined: 13 Apr 2005
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Location: GLENAY north deux sevre FRANCE
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| Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 10:28 pm Post subject: |
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| also some folks have differant feelings for differant animals.....i love chickens but hate rats.....i love raptors but hate flys........all are some gods creatures i know but i am odd or am i? |
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Knobby
Joined: 13 Apr 2005
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Location: North Warwickshire
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| Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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I agree.......But, I was bought up to believe....rats, squirels, mice, rabbits, magpies, foxes etc were all vermin, therefore I go out and shoot them....they dont suffer, it always done quickly & cleanly........i cant go thru life thinking about those that have been left behind ??
Anyway, lets not go down this route....it always leads to "off topic" arguments ! |
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mojo
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Location: GLENAY north deux sevre FRANCE
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| Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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| true and there is enough problems elsewhere...............p.s. love rabbit pie..........heheheheh..trouble maker aint i |
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traditionalbritishfowlco
Joined: 25 Jan 2006
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Location: lancashire
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Bah - can't find any breeding age rex's.
Anyone got any english? |
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milkmaid
Joined: 19 Apr 2005
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Location: isle of lewis
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| Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 8:50 am Post subject: |
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that was what my aunt used to keep to eat
haven't got any though sorry 
suz |
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fenwoman
Joined: 25 Nov 2005
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Location: Tydd St Giles, Cambridgeshire.
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| mojo wrote: | | also some folks have differant feelings for differant animals.....i love chickens but hate rats.....i love raptors but hate flys........all are some gods creatures i know but i am odd or am i? |
I don't think I hate any living thing. I have a terror of wasps and spiders, but don't hate them, I dislike wild rats but admire enormously thier survival skills and keep a pet rat which I like a lot. Flies are a bloody nuisance as are mozzies which eat me alive but I don't hate them.
Even though I am terrified of spiders I won't kill one. I do set wasp traps in my plum trees on bad wasp years because I'm allergic to their stings. On normal years like last year, I didn't bother.
Hate is a very strong word for a strong destructive emotion. I don't thing I hate anyone or anything and I will avoid killing anything if I can, but if I do have to kill I try hard to ensure that there is no unecessary suffering caused.
Hence I would not kill anything knowing it had helpless babies in the nest which would starve to death, I will not use slug pellets because of the very real danger they pose to other creatures higher up the food chain etc. There are usually humane ways of dealing with any pest problem. |
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