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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: shetlandpaul on July 06, 2010, 08:10:05 pm

Title: turkey chick attacked
Post by: shetlandpaul on July 06, 2010, 08:10:05 pm

we lost a turkey chick to a seagull today. are we allowed to shoot herring and blackback gulls if they are a threat.

Title: Re: turkey chick attacked
Post by: whitby_sam on July 06, 2010, 08:55:17 pm

As far as I know you can only not shoot seagulls in a built up area. If theyre in open fields and within the laws of where you can fire your gun then you can. Certainly where I am they're classed as vermin...

Title: Re: turkey chick attacked
Post by: bamford6 on July 08, 2010, 01:53:06 pm

make a catching pen and shoot them