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Farming family's anguish as 220 lambs taken by sea eagles
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<blockquote data-quote="Dry Rot" data-source="post: 7769945" data-attributes="member: 4505"><p>Back in the 16th century, falconry was a good way to source game meat (no guns back then). That was before the Enclosure Acts so hunters had free range over a countryside thinly populated by small farms. Having your hawk "royl" away after domestic chickens on free range was a serious problem. They cured that by sprinkling something obnoxious (pepper) over a fresh kill to convince the bird that chickens didn't taste very nice and were not worth killing. I kept my own hawks on a tether system which didn't work so well with my free range poultry. I tried the pepper cure. It worked and my hens survived in harmony with the hawks! But I'm not sure it would work with sheep and eagles.</p><p></p><p>A similar trick was tried in Canada to discourage coyotes from predating sheep. They distributed pieces of mutton laced with lithium chloride (the antabuse drug). Initially it worked. The coyotes stopped killing sheep because eating mutton made them sick. Then the penny dropped and the coyotes discovered that it was safe to eat fresh mutton and it was only the cold dead baits that caused sickness. Then the killing really started!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dry Rot, post: 7769945, member: 4505"] Back in the 16th century, falconry was a good way to source game meat (no guns back then). That was before the Enclosure Acts so hunters had free range over a countryside thinly populated by small farms. Having your hawk "royl" away after domestic chickens on free range was a serious problem. They cured that by sprinkling something obnoxious (pepper) over a fresh kill to convince the bird that chickens didn't taste very nice and were not worth killing. I kept my own hawks on a tether system which didn't work so well with my free range poultry. I tried the pepper cure. It worked and my hens survived in harmony with the hawks! But I'm not sure it would work with sheep and eagles. A similar trick was tried in Canada to discourage coyotes from predating sheep. They distributed pieces of mutton laced with lithium chloride (the antabuse drug). Initially it worked. The coyotes stopped killing sheep because eating mutton made them sick. Then the penny dropped and the coyotes discovered that it was safe to eat fresh mutton and it was only the cold dead baits that caused sickness. Then the killing really started! [/QUOTE]
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