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Buzzards on my neighbors fence:

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If a guy moved about ten feet to the left he could them all with one shot of 3" 00.

Buzzards don't bother me it's the coyotes and bobcats that bother me. And actually the neighbor and his daughter brought out there slingshots and started hitting them.

If a vulture dies, whether by natural causes or otherwise, do other vultures eat the dead one? Or are there some things too repulsive for even a vulture to dine on?

Fresh newborns are the most vulnerable targets. Usually if a calf is born in the early night he will be up and going enough to be out of danger. The black headed smaller vulture is the culprit. The turkey buzzard not so much. In our area if action is not taken a herd will be constantly threatened by vultures. They are vicious and you will find 30 or 40 surrounding a cow with a new calf. The cow ends up trampling the calf while fighting buzzards. They can be convinced to stay away, although that lesson has to be reinforced from time to time. Next biggest problem is the neighborhood dogs wanting to pack up and resume their ancestral behavior. There is only one solution to that.

Know what you call more than 2 dogs together?? TARGET PRACTICE

Or one dog, when calving I don't give a fuuck.


Shoot the sonuvabitch.

Actually I'm a softy and HATE to shoot a dog but sometimes there is no other choice with a repeat offender.

Sam I was out of touch with the internet for a while, so what happened with the white dog? miles

Miles, he was recently adopted.


Hopefully it works out.

We never had black vultures until a few years ago.

Couple of years ago my wife and I found a young bull in the back of our place that had gotten through the fence, but was really sickly looking. A bunch of black buzzards had him surrounded, and seemed to be waiting for him to die - or maybe getting ready to help him die? I mentioned this to the biologist on a Wildlife Management Area not too far from us, and he said he saw several buzzards on a cow that had gotten weak and went down, and they were going for her eyes. Same summer a farmer in the next county - Matagorda - got arrested for shooting buzzards, paper said he claimed they were killing calves.

Mike

He wasn't doing it right.

There are lots of protected predators that will put you out of nearly any agriculture business. The trick is to know how and when. SSS only works if you follow the last "s"...

Had a cow to calve early yesterday morning. I had checked on her and the calf right before we left for church. Got home and had lunch, and I happened to walk outside and heard a cow bawling like crazy. Looked down toward the creek, and she was surrounded by vultures trying to get her afterbirth, which was still hanging out. She was fighting them. and one was also apparently trying to get on the calf. I grabbed a rifle, and by the time I got to gate, she was running away from them. One paid for his crime, the others stayed clear after that.

wow, i thought they don't kill/hunt but feed on dead animals, this is my first times hearing that they are killing turkey and calf.

When we're calving, there's not a vulture within 500 miles of here. March/April.

i wonder why the feds are protecting vultures,

They protect most all birds. Just a very few exceptions. English Sparrow and couple of others. The rest are mostly protected or regulated.