[TheForge] Fox news OT:

[williamsiron at comcast.net]

I understand that geese will not eat strawberry plants but will eat the weeds that grow around them. And, yes, we have many geese that people find cute. Hunters and others are monsters for tryingg to control the goose population. 



Mark Williams 

Snow Hill, Maryland 
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From: "Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer" <artgawk at thegrid.net> 
To: "Bob Ehrenberger" <eforge at centurytel.net>, "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net> 
Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2010 1:55:20 AM 
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Fox news OT: 

Must have learned that from the raccoons. 
How many chickens does it take to make a fox fur coat? 

Bob Ehrenberger wrote: 
> Jan woke me up early this morning to tell me that all our chickens were dead 
> and there was a Fox walking off with one of them.  By the time I got my gun 
> and got out there the fox was long gone.  I saw it twice more, and each time 
> by the time I got out there it was gone.  The final time the fox took the 
> time to chase off a cat that thought it would have chicken for breakfast. 
> That was a fatal mistake, because by the time it got back to the dead 
> chickens I was ready for it and put it down. 
> 
> We are keeping an eye out to see if it's mate shows up, so far no sign of 
> one. It makes me sick, 24 dead chickens.  I had always thought that fox 
> would sneek in and take them one at a time, not kill the while batch at 
> once. 
> 
> Robert Ehrenberger 
> Shelbyville, Mo. 
> eforge at centurytel.net 
> 
> 
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