Pretty interesting.
This is in my area, so I'm paying close attention.
Sometimes we have LOTS of buzzards here. I've seen 250 or more feeding on a single dead hog. Guess they ran out of patience and started killing cattle and calves.
Part of the article...
Johnny Friedel, 73, of Hochheim, had cattle in DeWitt County on more than 700 acres. About five years ago, he lost about 70 cattle to vultures. He went through the permitting process and was allowed to kill 100 vultures that year.
The permit lasted for about a year. Friedel might get another one because he has been having problems with vultures recently.
When he got the permit, federal officials came out to survey his problem and taught him how to build a trap to catch and kill live vultures.
Finding his cows dead was devastating to him.
"It wasn't a pretty sight. We were right next to a buzzard roost. It was a radar tower or some transformer," he said.
