Found a new whitetail fawn stumbling across the road yesterday. Blood running out of each eye socket. Both eyeballs mangled. There are more of these now in KY then native buzzards. How is it possible that these invasive, non-native birds are protected????
Black Vultures
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BAKPAKR
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Some farmers were telling me recently that black vultures do the same thing to calves.
I smacked a few Ravens in my youth that tried it. Marlin model 60 death. mtmuley
Sheltowee
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I've had to run buzzards off a deer I shot before and there is a possibility one got ahold of a doe I killed in Alabama this year:
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They are hell on fawns and calves. KFB has a depredation program if they're hassling your livestock but, unfortunately, you're probably on your own as far as deer fawns:
www.kyfb.com
And before someone comes in with the S-S-S method: don't do Federal crimes and talk about it on the internet.
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Shot a healthy whitetail doe this morning just before 8am. Morning was chilly and, even though she bounced into an overgrown cutover, I knew she wouldn’t go far so I stayed in the stand. Got down and recovered her just after 10. When I got to her, a rectangular slab was missing out of her...
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They are hell on fawns and calves. KFB has a depredation program if they're hassling your livestock but, unfortunately, you're probably on your own as far as deer fawns:
Black Vulture Depredation Permits
Kentucky Farm Bureau has received a statewide depredation permit that allows for a limited number of black vulture “takes” where black vultures are depredating on livestock. Livestock producers who are experiencin
www.kyfb.com
And before someone comes in with the S-S-S method: don't do Federal crimes and talk about it on the internet.
CowboyLeroy
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They're awful. Ive seen flocks of forty or fifty mauling a newborn.
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CowboyLeroy
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A friend of a friend in Alabama got six dep tags, like it would make a difference or something. Went on to shoot as many as he could and ran straight to facebook.
Jail. Straight to jail.
Sheltowee
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These invasive, non-native vultures appeared from nowhere and took over. Absolutely no common sense reason for them to be protected!!! They are affecting native turkey vultures. I've seen 20 in a tree waiting for a calf to drop!! You can kill as many groundhogs and coyotes and rat snakes as you want but you cant kill a black vulture???
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Not that I particularly like these birds but an animal expanding its range without human introduction isn't invasive. Like armadillos in the midwest or moose in the great basin and southern rockies, it's a new thing for the area but not invasive.
Straight Arrow
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Turkey vultures on bank of Gallatin River.
BobT1105
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You can get depredation permits to kill them here. I drew a managed deer hunt tag for a state park last fall and one of the rangers told me they got permits to kill 100 of them but couldn’t come up with a safe way to do it.
I think a lot of them are getting shot in this area but there are plenty of them.
Also in this area, Bald Eagles have made a big comeback and are a very common sight. A couple of weeks ago a friend of mine lost a newborn calf to an eagle, I wonder if they will start handing out permits to shoot them?
I think a lot of them are getting shot in this area but there are plenty of them.
Also in this area, Bald Eagles have made a big comeback and are a very common sight. A couple of weeks ago a friend of mine lost a newborn calf to an eagle, I wonder if they will start handing out permits to shoot them?
Nick87
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Never heard of them until today.
