Goose Krystalnacht

tinknal · #21 07/08/10, 08:35 AM

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Originally Posted by jross

The same farming practices also caused the virtual extinction of ringnecks in New Jersey. To plant more, the hedgerows were removed, cover crop was planted, and the beans and corn are doused with pesticide. No cover, no food, and chicks consumed contaminated insects.

Yep, happening across the midwest too.

FyredUp · #22 07/10/10, 03:06 PM

Geese are filthy flying rats. They have no business in residential areas and if people would stop feeding them they wouldn't be there in the first place.

The amount of poop a flock of Canadian geese make is unbelievable. We used to have to hose off the ramp to the firehouse 2 or 3 times a day there was so much goose crap there. I was never so happy at work as the time they decided not to come back there anymore.

Gotta be great walking out in your back yard barefoot and ending up with a green foot from goose crap everywhere. I would toss fireworks at them everyday til they got the message if they started landing on my property.

Majestic in flight...just not in my backyard thank you very much.

tinknal · #23 07/10/10, 03:18 PM

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Originally Posted by FyredUp

Geese are filthy flying rats. They have no business in residential areas and if people would stop feeding them they wouldn't be there in the first place.

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All you have to do to "feed" a goose is mow your lawn. They are not for the most part living on handouts. They spend the summer grazing, and winter residents feed on grain stubble.

sleeping_gecko · #24 07/10/10, 09:02 PM

We lived on a lake for a number of years.

There were many, many Canadian geese.

My dog was frequently green from rolling in their poop.

Result: I'm not a huge fan of Canadian geese, though I wouldn't mind trying them as an entree!

MrCalicoty · #25 07/10/10, 09:27 PM

If I remember correctly Canadian Geese were deemed an endangered species in the 60's. I probably on saw a total of 3 or 4 growing up in my years living in southern Michigan. The next time I ever saw another one was on a business trip to St. Louis, MO in 1995 and they were walking in crosswalks! I was amazed. Then we moved back to Ohio and they were everywhere and everywhere they were they were causing problems soiling parks, walkways, parking lots, and aggressively defending their nests if you got within a few feet of them (not difficult to do when the parking lot of your workplace is home to hundreds of them).

If I'm correct in my assumption about them being a protected species then that protection must be repealed! They are certainly no longer endangered and have become a nuisance and a pest. I love seeing them fly... I think they are neat animals too.

Wouldn't it be best to remove them from endangered and allow hunting? If communities are already using public monies to remove and butcher them for zoos why not allow sportsmen to help control the population and even feed their families?

tinknal · #26 07/10/10, 10:06 PM

The are commonly hunted all over the country. Your info is way old.

MrCalicoty · #27 07/10/10, 10:30 PM

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Originally Posted by tinknal

The are commonly hunted all over the country. Your info is way old.

My sincere apologies... I stand corrected.

So to hunt them you still need a license (taxation). Why not allow hunters to take them without licenses and maybe not have to use public monies to control them. Frankly I don't think the word about allowing hunting them has gotten out to that many people.

Don't get me wrong. I pay for my fishing license and I don't have a problem with that. My state stocks the areas I fish so I don't mind that. But, the state DOESN'T stock geese so I'm not keen on them taxing, er... I mean, LICENSING a hunter to take them.

MELOC · #28 07/10/10, 11:02 PM

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Originally Posted by jross

Every time someone opens a container of Canola Oil, they are the guilty parties. Canadian farmers filled in the prairie potholes and plowed under the grass with big subsidies from the government to grow Rape. They couldn't call it Rape Oil since they figured no woman would buy it, so they contracted Canada and Oil, hence Canola. I read of this in Field and Stream in the 1950's when I was a kid. Ducks Unlimited started paying some of the farmers huge sums not to destroy the nesting areas of geese and ducks, but it was way to little. Geese need water, grass, and a ton of bugs for the babies, and if it ain't up there, they stay down here to nest. Carrying Capacity of the habitat is a term unknown or ignored by the Disney, HSUS, PeTA graduates of wild animal science. The clutching of little chests and wringing of little hands is what they know.

BTW it's Canada Geese, not Canadian Geese, Freezer Camp! I love it!

that's partly correct. here is a qoute from wikianswers...

"The oil called Canola Oil in North America is a cooking oil produced by extraction from specially hybridized rapeseed plants. The name Canola comes from an acronym of "Canadian Oil, Low Acid". This name was partly derived from the location of development and growth of the new plants, now known as Canola plants, that were cross-bred from rapeseed plants with a goal to reduce the amount of erucic acid produced by the plant. Canola oil is also sometimes called LEAR, another acronym formed from "Low Erucic Acid Rapeseed". An effort was made to name the new oil without using rape in the new name, because of the negative connotations of that word to English speaking consumers, although it comes from the latin word rapum, which means turnip. Rapeseed plants, turnips, rutabega, mustard, cabbage, and Brussels sprouts are all related species.
Erucic Acid in large amounts can be toxic to humans. The original rapeseed oil, produced years ago and since ancient times, typically would have 30 to 60% erucic acid content. Laws have been implemented by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to limit the amount of erucic acid in Canola oil to 2%. Most Canola oil produced today is well below that level of acid, with ranges of 0.3 to 1.2%"

tinknal · #29 07/10/10, 11:13 PM

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Originally Posted by MrCalicoty

My sincere apologies... I stand corrected.

So to hunt them you still need a license (taxation). Why not allow hunters to take them without licenses and maybe not have to use public monies to control them. Frankly I don't think the word about allowing hunting them has gotten out to that many people.

Don't get me wrong. I pay for my fishing license and I don't have a problem with that. My state stocks the areas I fish so I don't mind that. But, the state DOESN'T stock geese so I'm not keen on them taxing, er... I mean, LICENSING a hunter to take them.

Generally, the only places geese are a problem are city areas that are closed to hunting. Rochester MN has a resident goose population approaching 100,000 birds. They all know where the city limit ends.

george darby · #30 07/11/10, 10:27 AM

i was in tha feed store a few years back and some woman was crabbing about geese on her lawn i kinda ignored it and later drove by the general area i guessed she lived from her conversation a very nice mcMansion with a large sweeping treed yard ....................and it must have been 75 or more geese grazing right in front of the house at that point i realized mabey i should have been more sympathetic but her idea was total eradication evrywhere not just her lawn. i might have wildlife troubles my self but i stll like to see them about even though i have to build max security cages for my birds and have hotwires and lightshows around the gardens i liketo see the coons deer and posums elsewere