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  • From: Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Squirrels & deer
  • Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:46:09 -0500

At 10:30 AM 9/25/2006, Barry wrote:
For those of you who cull them, but don't eat them, don't overlook local
wildlife rehab facilities that rehab hawks, eagles, owls, etc. A friend
once spent 3 months culling them from his orchard and freezing them. A
local rehabber was happy to get the feed.

Good point.
We ran a raptor rehab center here at the lab for years, and I was always on the lookout for roadkill squirrels, rabbits, and even small opossums, to be fed to the birds. Stopping to pick up roadkill critters mortified my kids even more than my leaf-hauling forays throughout the fall.

Lucky




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