maybe you could put an eagle screamer on a drone and have fun swooping the chickens ,turkey to train them to beware and run for cover and next time they hear or see flying above they will always be on guard
There aren’t any pheasants crossed into chickens unless you are talking about Junglefowl (Grey, Ceylon and Green). All other hybrids are sterile. Blue eggs won’t pop up. Chickens can only have one or two (or zero) copies of the blue egg gene and they’ll lay blue eggs with only one copy. Only roosters can “hide” their blue egg genes because they don’t lay eggs. Technically it could arise as a new mutation but since that’s only happened once in the history of domestic chickens it would be a one in many billions chance fluke to spontaneously arise in your birds.
Try to get crows to stick around. They fight off hawks and will prob do the same to eagles. Put some corn out in a crow feeder and possible leave out hardboil egg if they show up.
I already have a flock of crows that hangs around and steals eggs out of the free range next boxes. They only mob certain hawks and ignore others, and those hawks they do mob will often ignore them.
One time I heard my chickens make a noise and I went over to see what is was turned out it was a hawk. Luckily I was there and the hawk was flying into the fence trying to escape. I didn't have my gun with me so the hawk escaped.
Once the state legislature gets a law passed , It's next to impossible to get it repealed . Thats why citizens need to pressure their government to slow down all this law making. There are more laws than we need on the FL. West's law books 20 yrs. ago.
At many levels government is not here to help us. It's plainly obvious to anyone who is aware of the current plandemic psychological operation. This is one of many other psy-ops by govt agencies (like operation mockingbird, mk ultra, mk Naomi) that are admitted through freedom of information disclosures.
A whole group of them have been for the past year. Its just that its usually on disposable stag roosters that if the eagle don't get them the brood cock will. But Jon Jon was specifically for a breeding project.
I will do whatever I need to do to protect my flocks. I have even seen eagles eating roadkill, surprise. There are too many of them around, plain and simple.
When I take my Chihuahua out to a field by the water over in west Dunnellon that is my fear. That an eagle will kill her. So after this vid and what you said Bullfrog , Thats it, No more field trips for her.
Don't fear the field trip, just be proactive and alert. There's two extremes, one is living in a la la land where we think think wild predators are our friends, and the other extreme is being afraid to enjoy nature because of the dangers. A happy middle ground is being aware that the dangers are real but being vigilant against them so as to not get caught off guard. That's my 2 cents. I let my dogs free range around my ponds where it is not unrealistic for a gator to get them. I try to look out for gators moving in. But my dogs have to live life.
I do apologize I’ve had hawks kill birds I’ve raise but bald eagles are not the enemy of all livestock videos like this are the reason they’re aren’t many of them you’ve got to remember bald eagles are native to that area and bald eagles rarely pray on livestock
My point of this video is to challenge the assertion that bald eagles rarely prey on livestock. I think that’s a myth born of farmers not having much contact with them in the mid 1900s and then further glossing over by the environmental movement that doesn’t want eagles to have bad press. What research I’ve done indicates that in reality bald eagles are very much documented being serious predators of all livestock up to the size of small sheep and calves. That knowledge just isn’t out there like it used to be. You say that videos like this are the reason there aren’t many eagles out there, but that’s a faulty assertion for two reasons. First, eagles are no longer rare. They are very common now. Second, they became rare not because of persecution by farmers but because of the pesticide DDT. After DDT was banned, eagles rebounded.
I do apologize your one of my favorite youtubers sorry for the argument I guess it could depend on where you live I live in North Carolina and there ain’t to many here so that could be where my opinion stems from
No need to apologize at all. I enjoy both challenging others and being challenged. That’s often how we learn. We should test other people’s ideas and then our own. That’s why I didn’t delete your comments. I welcome disagreement so long as it is sincere and respectful, as your points are.
Not true, historical documentation and published studies indicate the prey on livestock with regularity. There was a phase in the mid 1900s where they rarely preyed on livestock due to their numbers falling far back with DDT poisoning. The surviving eagles were the fish eating populations in coastal areas while the inland, bird and mammal eating populations, died off. Now that eagles have rebounded we’re seeing them return to their general predator ways.
