rachels.haven's Journal

[High Desert Cowboy]

I will forever appreciate the fact that not only can we shoot coyotes year round here in Utah but they pay us $50 a coyote to do it. You’re very smart in wanting help to better prepare yourself for a firearm, many don’t and that’s how accidents happen. I hope your husband can have some sort of change, it’s normal to have a little stress at work but when it starts to have a negative impact on your heath I don’t care how much it pays it can’t be worth it.

 

[rachels.haven]

Wow, I didn't know Utah did that. I'm impressed.

 

[thistlebloom]

Maybe you need to move west.

So sorry for the stress your husband is going through .

 

[rachels.haven]

Where we're at in the country, I think the only option we've got is to go west...unless we want to head up to Maine, or live in the ocean, both of which I'd really rather not.

So something kind of funny, and more light hearted has been going on lately. So for the past week or so I've been being woken up at about 5:30-6 am by what I assumed were very large crows sitting in the trees and babbling their heads off. This morning I actually put my glasses on and realized that they are sitting on the deck railing, and not the trees and are vocalizing loudly into the house windows for some reason. Also, that they are about 2 feet tall and are not crows, but are ravens (according to audubon). This didn't make sense for a few hours, but when I went out to go put some rejected scrambled eggs in the dog's dish and came face to face with a large black bird about to swoop off the gate and fill up on Iams I figured it out.

Yeah, they're waking me up so I can hurry up and fill Bailey's dish for them. It empties overnight and filling it is the first thing I do in the morning. Last year they stole kills from the hawk (he had plenty, there were chickens strung up by him in trees everywhere, plenty of my chickens dead for everyone). This year they are opting for a less dangerous, more domestic route and waking me up to feed them. Looks like I need a new strategy for feeding my slow eating dog if I don't want two pet ravens. They're not afraid of people, btw, just like everything else here. I wouldn't mind if they started beating up raptors for me, I guess. But at the same time, I happen to know that big black birds make big, goopy, slow drying puddles of birdie poo so I'll need to decide what to do.

 

[rachels.haven]

Also they are standing Bailey's marrow bones up on end and picking the marrow out. Bailey doesn't seem to be thrilled about that, but I'm still not sure if her following them around stopping them from getting her food and bones scattered around is a game or work. She seems to be enjoying it.

 

[B&B Happy goats]

Bailey has pet ravens ...

 

[Baymule]

Everybody needs a pet. Sentry has a pet chicken. She lays him an egg in his dog house!

 

[rachels.haven]

His pet lays him breakfast. Lucky dog!

 

[rachels.haven]

I was wrong on the location of the father strangling a coyote that tried to drag off his 2 year old. It made Nashville's news, but it occurred in NH, of course. My mother corrected me. She says the coyotes in her area would not act like that or they would be shot on sight so I double checked and she was right.

 

[Duckfarmerpa1]

In Hicksville, the coyotes would be shot, or at least they would be here.

That’s what do!! Shoot that dang things!!