Retiring Guy's Digest

Sunday, April 6, 2025

Now that you have backyard chickens to beat the price of eggs, are you protecting them from coyote attacks?

Photo and headline: Nite Guard

How do coyotes kill their prey? The most common kill style is a bite to the throat. Other signs you may be dealing with a coyote (assuming you actually find the body or remains) are wounds on the shoulders, flank, or hindquarters.
The truth is, you may not find much evidence with a coyote kill. A coyote uses a quick bite, shake, and release kill method which rattles the internal organs and forces the animal to collapse (even if the neck hasn’t been broken). Coyotes then tend to carry their kill to a safe place before consuming it. Evidence has been found as far as a mile away from a suspected coyote kill site.
Coyotes also leave little evidence because they tend to eat as much as they can fit in their mouths. They’ve even been known to consume pet collars in their feasting fury.

More backyard chickens and geese fall victim to bird flu in Ohio. (3/12)

Bird flu infects backyard flock of chickens and ducks in Dallas County Iowa. (3/9)

Martha's Vineyard backyard chicken flock depopulated as a result of bird flu. (3/8)

Downside to backyard chickens: salmonella. (3/8)

Backyard chickens are not the answer to the high price of eggs. (3/7)

Heads up, folks! It's not as though backyard chickens are immune from bird flu. (3/5)

February 2025

Backyard poultry doesn't mean your chickens are immune from bird flu. (2/25)

Backyard poultry owners need to learn more than the basics in the age of bird flu. (2/9)

Anti-vaxxer Robert Kennedy Jr. is visiting Texas. Will he apologize for being hazardous to Texans' health?

Headline: The Texas Tribune, 4/6/2025

Pooja Salhotra reports:

The West Texas outbreak has sickened 481 people, most of whom are unvaccinated children, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.

The outbreak began in Gaines County, located about 90 minutes southwest of Lubbock on the New Mexico border. Since then, cases have been reported in 18 other Texas counties. And the Center for Disease Control has linked measles cases in Oklahoma with the Texas outbreak.

Measles is a highly contagious virus that spreads through respiratory droplets passed through the air by breathing, coughing and sneezing. Vaccination is the safest way to build immunity to the virus. [emphasis added]

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March 2025

RFKjr wants to Make America Healthy Again by disemboweling food safety programs. (3/20)

Hazardous to your health RFKjr @HHS has a cure for the accelerating measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico. (3/10)

Antivaxxer RFKjr @HHSGov: Hazardous to your health and taste buds (cod liver oil edition). (3/6)

Antivaxxer RFKjr @HHSGov: Hazardous to your health (measles outbreak edition). (3/5)

RFKjr @HHSGov: Hazardous to your health (bird flu vaccine edition. (3/3)

Make America Spotty Again (MASA). (3/2)

February 2025

RFKjr @HHSGov: Clear and present danger to Americans (the continuing story). (2/23)

RFKjr looks as though he was just rescued after being stranded for months on a desert island. Freaky!. (2/16/2025)

Robert F. Kennedy and a shocking detachment from reality @SenateGOP. (2/13/2025)