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Rattlesnakes & Bull snakes I've eaten taste more like Halibut (but have the texture of chicken). The skins also look great on the back of hand-made wooden bows.
I won't kill it if I don't plan on eating it..
It wasn't all that long ago when trophy hunting was widely accepted. Go out, kill a deer or elk, take the head, and leave the rest to rot. Partly public sentiment and party laws has mostly put an end to that.I honor my kills of the past for giving their life for mine.
You're right about that. Fall tillage and land spreading are also starving birds.New machines leave no grain on the ground either but does a farmer need every grain of corn? Birds are also gone now.
I grew up on a farm in rural Ohio and still live just around the corner from the home place.A massive change that affects the entire food chain is the largely unnoticed destruction of the insect population. Birds rely heavily on them. Even twenty years ago, driving your car at night in the summer resulted in a windshield literally covered with dead bugs. Now, just a few. You could look across your yard and fields and the lightning bugs would be out in the millions, now just a few lonely little lights here and there. Mostly due to chemicals, which by the way, we are also ingesting along with the bugs, deer, etc.You're right about that. Fall tillage and land spreading are also starving birds.
I grew up on a farm in rural Ohio and still live just around the corner from the home place.A massive change that affects the entire food chain is the largely unnoticed destruction of the insect population. Birds rely heavily on them. Even twenty years ago, driving your car at night in the summer resulted in a windshield literally covered with dead bugs. Now, just a few. You could look across your yard and fields and the lightning bugs would be out in the millions, now just a few lonely little lights here and there. Mostly due to chemicals, which by the way, we are also ingesting along with the bugs, deer, etc.
I see the chemicals here when the power company sprays under wires. I will not allow it so they have to hand cut. A neighbor had bee hives and lost all, replaced and lost them again so he quit. I almost never see a honey bee. Farmers and others do not understand the destruction they do. Then imported bugs that get here from ships are ruining everything.
Removing fence rows should be a crime, along with defoliants. Fence rows harbor a dizzying and diverse array of flora and fauna. They bulldoze them into oblivion all for an extra bushel of $3 corn.
In Europe, something has to be proven safe before it's approved for use....the US has gone insane...
Up till 2012 I lived in the woods and just had a clearing around my house. I had a wire fenced in area for my little dogs. They would bark and run up and down the fence line looking at deer not ten yards away, the deer ignored them. Every spring and fall turkey would come up andmy dogs jumped and watched and barked.... the turkey looked bored... and continued eating acorns.We dearly love the birds and they are fed all year. Deer come to eat and once in a while turkeys come and I can walk past them. My little dog does not bother anything and ignores deer, squirrels and birds. Deer have come within 10' of her and she just sits there. We had quail long ago but got a deep snow and rain that froze on top. Killed them off so we have none at all. There are no birds to hunt at all. I will not shoot crows or ravines anymore.
We have a deer with 3 legs that came today with a younger one. The 2 dogs in my yard barked at them but are in a huge pen. The deer were not bothered and even when I yelled at the dogs to get in they stood there. Me with my baby. If you don't love animals I have no use for you. She is sleeping under my seat in the basement and loves to go for a ride to see neighbors and dogs. She even loves cats. View attachment 8512
We had quail here in NW ohio also. My favorite bird to hunt and quite tasty. Mom always threw those I brought home from the morning hunt in with the turkey on thanksgiving. Back to back blizzards in 78 and 79 killed them all off here. I've tried to get them started, but they don't make it.We dearly love the birds and they are fed all year. Deer come to eat and once in a while turkeys come and I can walk past them. My little dog does not bother anything and ignores deer, squirrels and birds. Deer have come within 10' of her and she just sits there. We had quail long ago but got a deep snow and rain that froze on top. Killed them off so we have none at all. There are no birds to hunt at all. I will not shoot crows or ravines anymore.
We have a deer with 3 legs that came today with a younger one. The 2 dogs in my yard barked at them but are in a huge pen. The deer were not bothered and even when I yelled at the dogs to get in they stood there. Me with my baby. If you don't love animals I have no use for you. She is sleeping under my seat in the basement and loves to go for a ride to see neighbors and dogs. She even loves cats. View attachment 8512
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