Great Jackrabbit Roundup

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

In 1934, farmers in western Kansas were doing bad enough from the drought and excessive dust storms when they decided there was one enemy they could fight against: the jackrabbit. A typical jackrabbit was eating $10 worth of crops per year. Thousands of farmers and volunteers got together and in 13 counties herded and rounded up 2 million jackrabbits.

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[moi621 (imported)]

And the O. Z.'s practice germ warfare on bunnies.

For California it will be the ferret.

Ferret owners had expected Arnold to push for legalizing ferrets in California. Ferrets are not natural here.

Arnold took no action about the outlawed ferret.

Back in the 80's I lived in a low density condo development with rolling green hills and lakes nearby associated with an unfenced golf course and county park. Some owners had annual pairs of ducks nesting in their front entries or back patios. One neighbor had a pair for over 5 years when one day he found the mother duck dead with a "hole burrowed into her chest" and the eggs destroyed. It was the work of his neighbors escaped illegal ferret. I guess Eastern ducks know how to handle ferrets but, not California's mallards.

Back to old time bunny crop damage -

Consider $10 dollars of crop damage was a more expensive $10 back then

or was the figure adjusted for 21st Century Bernanke dollars

Moi

Bunny Rabbit Yum

It tastes like sweet chicken

[george2u2 (imported)]

Moi,

The meat is greasy, kind of like lamb only white meat.

But the fur is soft.

[Riverwind (imported)]

Moi, don't confuse a wild jack rabbit with a domestic like a Rex or New Zealand White for fur or meat.

River

[Sweetpickle (imported)]

I have bunnies living nearby, they sometimes check my patio for snacks.

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

And the O. Z.'s practice germ warfare on bunnies.

For California it will be the ferret.

Ferret owners had expected Arnold to push for legalizing ferrets in California. Ferrets are not natural here.

Arnold took no action about the outlawed ferret.

Back in the 80's I lived in a low density condo development with rolling green hills and lakes nearby associated with an unfenced golf course and county park. Some owners had annual pairs of ducks nesting in their front entries or back patios. One neighbor had a pair for over 5 years when one day he found the mother duck dead with a "hole burrowed into her chest" and the eggs destroyed. It was the work of his neighbors escaped illegal ferret. I guess Eastern ducks know how to handle ferrets but, not California's mallards.

Back to old time bunny crop damage -

Consider $10 dollars of crop damage was a more expensive $10 back then

or was the figure adjusted for 21st Century Bernanke dollars

Moi

Bunny Rabbit Yum

It tastes like sweet chicken

Moi, that was in 1934 dollars. Please adjust to 2013 dollars.

[transward (imported)]

Back in the 80's I lived in a low density condo development with rolling green hills and lakes nearby associated with an unfenced golf course and county park. Some owners had annual pairs of ducks nesting in their front entries or back patios. One neighbor had a pair for over 5 years when one day he found the mother duck dead with a "hole burrowed into her chest" and the eggs destroyed. It was the work of his neighbors escaped illegal ferret. I guess Eastern ducks know how to handle ferrets but, not California's mallards.

I lived for 15 years on a houseboat, which was a house built on a 90 year old log float, not a navigable boat, in Lake Union in the center of Seattle, just across the lake from the Space Needle. Almost every year one or two families of Canadian geese would take up residence in the planters on our back deck, and we had a permanent family of raccoons living on the log float under the houseboat. The raccoons, although they occasionally killed ducks, would not tangle with the geese, who got extremely aggressive when there were eggs in the nest. I have been attacked on my own deck several time by the male goose, who would fly at you, peck at your head and butt you with their breast, while honking and thrashing their wings. We had one guest knocked into the lake when attacked unexpectedly. It feels like the proverbial bat out of hell attacking you. The geese usually kept one of them guarding the nest but occasionally they would both be gone briefly and the raccoons would make an attempt to eat the eggs. I have been awakened several times in the middle of the night by goose-raccoon wars when the geese returned and caught the raccoons in the act.

In 1934, farmers in western Kansas were doing bad enough from the drought and excessive dust storms when they decided there was one enemy they could fight against: the jackrabbit. A typical jackrabbit was eating $10 worth of crops per year. Thousands of farmers and volunteers got together and in 13 counties herded and rounded up 2 million jackrabbits.

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Was born quite close to there across the line in Oklahoma, (leaving there at the age of four was the smartest thing I ever did). I remember relatives talking about the rabbit hunts. There was also a problem with coyotes who multiplied because of the rabbits and also preyed on what livestock they had left. The state paid a bounty for each coyote killed. My great uncle had a pack of foxhounds, and the good old boys would go out build a fire, drink moonshine and turn the packs loose, communicating with them by hunting horns. My uncle claimed to have the worlds largest collection of hunting horns, had deals with slaughterhouses all over the south to save him unusual horns, and had people sending him horns from all over the world to turn into hunting horns. All sort of exotic African horns. When I was a small child we would drive along some country roads and there would be a dead coyote hanging from each fence pole. Horrific memory.

Transward

[Riverwind (imported)]

I remember seeing pictures of the dead coyotes from the fence posts. Those were bad times indeed.

River

[turtle12 (imported)]

When I was in college on the Indiana/Ohio state line there was a bounty on the ears of a fox in one state and the feet of a fox in the other. A road kill fox was a prize find with a double pay out.

I remember seeing pictures of the dead coyotes from the fence posts. Those were bad times indeed.

River

[Dave (imported)]

When I was in college on the Indiana/Ohio state line there was a bounty on the ears of a fox in one state and the feet of a fox in the other. A road kill fox was a prize find with a double pay out.

I've been in a car with a rather crazed friend who liked to run over groundhogs. He like groundhog stew. Personally, the thought of it made me sick but that was his only bad habit as a friend...

One day on one of those sideways swerves attempts to catch a groundhog on the berm of the road, he hit a culvert and broke an axle.

Now my question about the dead fox bounty is -- was the bounty worth trying to kill the beast with a several thousand dollar car?

Just asking' in a friendly sort of way.