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Comments (6)I would recommend you take that gun class before you buy the BB gun. You will get lots of information and you may change your mind about what to get. In my opinion, I would never shoot a dog with a BB gun. It's not enough to kill it quickly and humanly, but it is enough to wound it and make it dangerous and it may suffer a long time and finally die. BB guns are fun for plinking, but I would not shoot at anything living with one. I would consider that cruel. If you want to scare them perhapses a pain ball gun. Then if you hit the culprit, you can catch him "red handed" or red painted in this case. The owner would be liable for damages in our state. Not sure what your laws are. A pain ball at close range can leave bruises, so it can hurt them but not permanent injury. I'm sure someone will have an anecdotal story about someone who suffered a permanent injury from a paint ball, but not normally, it's very rare and especially at a range of more than 5 feet. If the dog is closer than 5 feet, you are probably being attacked yourself and you have a bigger problem. The other option is a shot gun. This has been the home protection choice of country folk for more than a century. You can choose a shell that is appropriate to the problem including less than lethal or lethal ammunition. and the shot will not travel far. Even a bb will travel quite a ways and could hit something past your target you didn't mean to hit. You still have to think about what is past your target, but shot will not travel far and does a job at close range. Anni Oakley get your gun. Yeehaaaa Be sure it is LEGAL to use lethal force on dogs to protect your livestock. In the city limits where I live, it is NOT legal to discharge a firearm of any sort, except in self defense....See MoreFruit Tree Critters - Possible Solution
Comments (9)I've been facing terrible squirrel pressure on my fruit trees this year and have lost all my peaches and most of my apples. I rather doubt that running electric wire through the tree will help, and think that you will have problems if the wire is touching the tree. I have found that squirrels (I don't yet have racoon problems) will tear apart both plastic sandwich bags and the more durable cloth fruit bags to get at the fruit. Netting does seem to help, however. I'm using the bird netting you get at Home Depot. I suspect the squirrels are worried about getting tangled in it. This works ok on smallish, slow growing trees, but with a peach tree you are going to have a lot of branches growing through the netting, and possibly a large tree to net to start with. If I had an enclosed yard (I don't), I'd look into a dog. If I lived in the country, I'd look into a rifle. Scott has mentioned Kania traps for squirrels; I don't know if they work for racoons, and there are of course issues of legality here. I await a brilliant solution to these problems for the backyard fruit grower....See MoreTwo Gardens are now electrified
Comments (12)Even though we have had moderately good rainfall here, the deer are far too thin. I try to feed the does and fawns a little something every now and then. We have had a bumper crop of watermelons and cantaloupes, so I slice those and put them out by the compost pile and they love those. They ate green corn stalk leaves when I put those out after the corn was done producing. Usually I put out a little deer corn and sometimes some hen scratch in the evening. I started doing that in July when the fawns showed up. Within 5 minutes of me putting that out, the does and fawns are there eating it. I do not put it out at the same time every day with the time generally being between 6:30 and 7:30 p.m., so that tells me they are standing in the woods watching and waiting for me to put out food and come inside. The larger herds of deer led by a buck come later, and that's good because if the buck-led herds came before the does and fawns, the fawns likely wouldn't get anything. My clover sprouted well in the deer feeding area, but not much rain has fallen since it sprouted so it isn't growing much yet. Last year I put out a deer forage-type mix, but think I had it too close to the dog yard and the deer wouldn't come to it, although the rabbits sure did. This year I want to plant forage for them further away from the house so they will be able to eat there freely without listening to the dogs barking at them. We had the skunks last year really bad, but not too many this year, and if they came into the yard proper, we shot them.....especially the ones out in broad daylight. We have had one persistent little armadillo visiting the yard after every rainfall, one coyote (though not lately) and one possum that has been coming around the last week. It is really small and scrawny. Scott, We were very brown like that last year when our KBDI had reached about 770 by mid-August, and then it rained once or twice in August, then rained a lot more in September and I was amazed at how quickly it greened up. Still, it was too late in the season for the wildlife to put on good weight from it all before it froze. We had lots of green undergrowth for them to browse in spring, but it seems like they are so underweight they just cannot recover well from last year. I wonder if they ever will. Dawn...See MoreLamp question.... any thoughts
Comments (1)Might have to compromise? There are LED flickering flame bulbs on Amazon - would have to wire the lamp but you could have a oil lamp flame effect....See MoreJennifer
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