Hunting and fishing stories

[tortoise]

also how do you kill a baby animal? morally??

They're not babies. Nearly 100# live weight.

 

[Chicks in VA]

Fun story: So, I was helping my dad gut/pluck and clean a turkey and my mom left right after we finished up, so then my mom calls there is a dead deer at the bottom of or driveway, we go down there it's about 85-pound deer, so we take the tenderloin back strap and rump roasts off and it was good dinner

we still don't know cause of death, but we do know she was still warm and when we opened her up she was still steaming warm

 

[tortoise]

oh okay as dumb as this sound if its that big I call it a yearling

I wouldnt be able to tell the difference between a fawn and yearling.

 

[Mini Horses]

I'm in corn, soybean, p-nut and cotton area. Our deer are well fed and overly abundant! Then the winter wheat is great forage 😁. If I harvested 10% of those -- and turkeys!! -- that I see close to home, I could feed the whole neighborhood all year. 20-30 in groups, several fields every night. Animals gabatch!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I'd love to see them make a comeback. Seems we lose more and more of the wild things every year...

 

[R2elk]

Many hatcheries sell them. If you actually raise them, they need kept in tightly fenced and tightly netted pens.

Grandma used to send all her kids out after a hay field was cut to collect any eggs that survived. She'd incubate them and raise them until old enough to release.

Most states require a permit from the Game & Fish or DNR to raise pheasant. I don't know of any state where it is legal to take eggs from the wild.

 

[Chicks in VA]

8 points. Not a monster, but he's handsome.

I prefer to read print books. (I am convinced people retain information better when they read from print. plus reading on a screen changes how we scan a page and it's not good.) I love my local library!

I love print books as well
they are so amazing

 

[CLSranch]

We had a snaping turtle come when we were not looking and take the 2 fish right of our stringer at my grandad's house!!

I've had that more than once. A whole stringer FULL gone going down to the next pond then coming back. I learned a little from that and have had a basketful of fish snake bit while I/we were gone. They didn't make it in the basket yet, or they already got back out, which would be hard. Just a floating basket of dead fish.

 

[Mini Horses]

That's a pretty boy! He'll make more youngins for you....I wouldn't shoot him either 👍

 

[murphysranch]

^^ he's in New Zealand.