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So, I've been spot spraying pastures from my tractor. Getting rid of unwanted woodies and briars. Anyway a week or so I ago I pulled up to a multifora rose bush and started spraying it with my hand gun. As the herbicides stream hit the bush a skunk ran out from under it, than another skunk ran out... and another, and another...... until 7 SKUNKS RAN OUT FROM THAT BUSH. They were all the same size and looked grown, but they are surely from early this spring and still with their mamma, just slow to disperse for who knows what reason... so fast forward to this morning and I walk out to the edge of my round bale rows where I have an electric fence gate that I needed to hook up to make the hot wire around a big windbreak of cedars and pines I have at the side of a field. I wanted the fence hot cause I was going to move the cows in that pasture this morning. So out at the end of the stack something catches my eye in the grass... pretty close to me. It's a skunk tail sticking straight up. Usually that means they are stired up and thinking about spraying. Then the stupid thing sort of ran toward me in a few stiff legged hops. He was showing me, here I am, get lost punk or I will unload on you! So, of course, I got out of there. I am not against live and let live but I don't take kindly to being run about by varmits in my own territory. So I thought, " ok tough guy, two can play at that game." So I stepped it off to my car where I keep my stubby 223 handi rifle for dealing with varmits and nuisance animals.... I hiked back up to where the pushy skunk was and gave him a dose of lead. It took all the wind out of his sails.
Later in the morning while spot spraying out in the field it became clear there is little danger I'm making skunks endangered on the farm. I started to spray a patch of greenbriar and 5 skunks ran out of it. I have no idea if they were some of the seven I saw the week before or not. If they were they were about a half a mile from where I saw the first batch. Looks like it would be tough to be a ground nesting bird on my farm.....

Stinky business

I was sprayed once when I was ten. Never again.

Most of the farmers around here keep something handy, some even keep an accurate 22 handgun on their belt. Always handy whether they are on the tractor, driving a four wheeler or utv across the pasture, or sitting on a tailgate eating lunch eating a sammich. A well placed 22 hollowpoint will cure most ills.

In my way younger days I worked on a ranch tending cattle. I carried a S&W 38 Special to rid the
pastures and fields of gophers. The owner hated them and paid for all my ammo. Any other critter
that came along was fair game as well. Well, not the good critters like deer or pheasants.
Great fun.

I'm sure its from Global Warming