Posted by Banditfarmer on April 26, 2013 at 07:40:14 from (174.103.154.185):
With all the talk on hear lately about ground hogs and turkeys, deer and others got me to thinking about a farm I rented along time ago. Me and a friend of mine were farming together and he had somehow found out about this farm and wanted to go over a talk to the owner about renting it. Well we did and made to deal and made plans on what we were going to do. Place was 159 acres with 75 acres tillable (15 acre L shaped bottom with a creek down the middle) the rest was hill sides and trees. That should have been the first clue. This farm was over run with game! The last year we farmed it was like this, If the ground hogs don't eat the soybeans and the coons and deer don't eat all the corn and the deer and turkeys don't eat or nock down all the wheat YOU COULD GET A CROP OFF THE PLACE!!!!!! If this wasnt bad enough one fall I had the combine in his barn and had been going over it getting ready to start cutting there the next day. It was getting late and time for dinner anyway so I put things up turned off the lights and was leaving. Owner was sitting on the back deck of his house and I stopped to BS for a bit. As I was leaving he said he was waiting on someone that was coming by, I said see you tomorrow and left. After being home for a bit I found I forgot my wallet and check book on the combine ladder. Back to the farm after dinner. It was dark as I pulled up to the barn and put it in park, Got out eased over to the pole with the light switch on it(owner junk around it) and flipped the light switch on. Loud Screams came from the rafters! I had startled the 22 newly arrived peacocks that were rousting in the barn trusses. Man talk about scaring the crap out of you, After my heart rate came down and I checked my BVD's, I could hear the owner laughing his butt off at me as he walked towords me to tell me about the peacocks he just got. If all the other critters weren't bad enough I lost the 6 acre field by the barns to the peacocks eating all the corn I planted that next spring. No crop could be grown in that field anymore because of the peacocks eating it. We only farmed the place 2 more years because of all the wild life problems. I am sure you guys out there have seen other farms like this. To this day I still don't know how you could get rid of this problem on a farm like that. Oh well, You live and learn. Bandit
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