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Feral ducks plague South Florida town
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| May 9, 2012
Posted on 05/09/2012 3:00:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: SaraJohnson
The decrease in the duck population is directly inverse to the number of Chinese restaurants serving Peking Duck.
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posted on
05/09/2012 3:52:05 PM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Would you rather eat dog food or cat food? Guess it's Romney 2012.)
To: CH3CN
Make that “can’t drive them away, can’t eat them, can’t make a pet.” My n’ts are off tonight.
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posted on
05/09/2012 3:52:13 PM PDT
by
CH3CN
(A stitch in time is worth two in the bush.)
To: libstripper
“... just get a dick dinner”.
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To: nickcarraway
1 800 ali gatr
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posted on
05/09/2012 4:11:46 PM PDT
by
VRWC For Truth
(Throw the bums out who vote yes on the bailout)
To: VRWC For Truth
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posted on
05/09/2012 4:12:25 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
To: nickcarraway
“A federal rule that went into effect in 2010 placed the Muscovy ducks on a list of federally protected birds.”
Well, that’s great for the ducks that are living on federal lands, where the feds’ jurisdiction on matters like this ends. For the Muscovy ducks who have strayed into the sovereign State of Florida, it should be “game on”.
To: nickcarraway
you think ducks are bad... we have HUNDREDS of Canadian geese crapping all over the place year round and you can't touch them
but i found a cool way to pizz them off and get them to leave the park if only for a little while
circle them closing the circle a few feet with every revolution till you get them in a tight group then run at them with the wind at your back... it's all flapping and honking and falling over each other trying to take off with the wind!
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posted on
05/09/2012 4:22:32 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Aggressive? I guess so. So are geese and chickens. Muscovy ducks are a common domestic breed. Good God, what have we come to? Calculating cocker spaniels? Preying Pekingese? Slavering samoyeds? Raving Rhode Island Reds? Muscovies are decidedly NOT endangered any more than are duroc pigs. #@$%^@&!!
C’mon, folks. We have actual lives to live. sd
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posted on
05/09/2012 4:34:39 PM PDT
by
shotdog
(I love my country. It's our government I'm afraid of.)
To: nickcarraway
UPI brags “Over 100 years of journalistic excellence” illustrates this story with a photograph of a Mallard hen.
Face Palm, Now!
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posted on
05/09/2012 4:35:09 PM PDT
by
lastchance
("Nisi credideritis, non intelligetis" St. Augustine)
To: Iowa Granny; Ladysmith; Diana in Wisconsin; JLO; sergeantdave; damncat; phantomworker; joesnuffy; ..
If youd like to be on or off this Outdoors/Rural/wildlife/hunting/hiking/backpacking/National Parks/animals list please FR mail me. And ping me is you see articles of interest.
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posted on
05/09/2012 4:38:20 PM PDT
by
SJackson
(As a black man, you know, Barack could get shot going to the gas station, M Obama)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
they are rather homely, but they are a farm yard duck...idiots put it on an endangered list is stupid beyond belief...My dad once got ticked off at all the sparrows pooping on his car (when we lived in the city). Every morning for a couple of weeks he would pop a large bown of popcorn and throw it on the front lawn....In two weeks the sparrows were gone....it appears that sparrows being a small bird get pop corn stuck in their throats and die...the neighbors told my mother how sweet it was that he fed the birds popcorn everyday...
Now some might now believe popcorn can kill a sparrow, but they died....the larger birds don't have a problem with popcorn.....
When he was a kid (born 1901) and a farm boy, there was a bounty on crows of 5 cents each. But a shot gun shell cost 5 cents so he soaked some grain in whiskey and put it out for the crows....they got drunk and couldn't fly, he then would use one shot gun shell and get about 4 birds...made a profit...those old boys used to know how to get things done.....
To: nickcarraway
To: nickcarraway
"Unfortunately there's not a lot we can do,"
There's a lot the citizens can do as well as for the invasive snakes.........just let them do it.
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posted on
05/09/2012 4:49:50 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(My 6 pack abs are now a full keg......)
To: nickcarraway
My quick read...."Feral drunks plague South Florida town"
Be careful folks...its dangerous out there.
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posted on
05/09/2012 5:50:56 PM PDT
by
Tainan
(Cogito, ergo conservatus sum)
To: Iowa Granny; Ladysmith; Diana in Wisconsin; JLO; sergeantdave; damncat; phantomworker; joesnuffy; ..
If youd like to be on or off this Outdoors/Rural/wildlife/hunting/hiking/backpacking/National Parks/animals list please FR mail me. And ping me is you see articles of interest.
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posted on
05/09/2012 5:54:58 PM PDT
by
SJackson
(As a black man, you know, Barack could get shot going to the gas station, M Obama)
To: nickcarraway
The ducks are considered non-natives to Florida and invasive, so moving them somewhere else is prohibited. A federal rule that went into effect in 2010 placed the Muscovy ducks on a list of federally protected birds.I suddenly have a mental image of Dumb and Dumber, and they got jobs in government......
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posted on
05/09/2012 7:14:08 PM PDT
by
Sarajevo
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To: Chode
Once a year for two weeks they can not fly. That is when you round them up.
To: dfwgator
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posted on
05/09/2012 10:41:44 PM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(If you like lying Socialist dirtbags, you'll love Slick Willard)
To: Domangart
i wish we could but we can't touch them let alone kill them and even if we could round them up, short of taking them back to northern canada they'd be back in no time...
a guy at marina got fined big time for poisoning a bunch of them cause they crap all over the boats in the marina
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posted on
05/10/2012 4:52:40 AM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: nickcarraway
Take and hammer a decent steel stake in the ground, something sturdy, tie off about a hundred feet of Spectra fishing line, the stuff with about a 120lb breaking strain and very tough to cut.
Tie on the end very securely a ball of pork rind.
its an old story I heard that a duck cannot digest pork, it passes right through their system very quickly, and then another duck swallows the pork, and again, and again.
Set up these duck ropes and soon you will have the whole flock tied up...literally from beak to tail.
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posted on
05/10/2012 4:58:32 AM PDT
by
Eye of Unk
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