here in the uk and driving about taking in the country side as ya do when chillin out. ive noticed that farmers hang like what llok to me rats, or moles by their tales on the fences around the fields............ why ????
2007-07-17 04:34:39 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Agriculture
Rats/rodents are the biggest problems farmers face as a rodent family can clean up the crops in a very short time and also reproduce at an unbelievable rate.
So the farmers best friends are the prey birds like eagles, hawks and the snakes which eat the rodents. Whenever a farmer gets a dead rodent, he hangs them in his fence to entice more prey birds and snakes so that they will come and eat the mice/rat/rodents in his farm/fields and get him the highest yield.
Snakes and Prey birds are the ways farmers tackle the rodenr problems :)
2007-07-17 08:19:09 · answer #1 · answered by Aski 3 · 6⤊ 2⤋
They are hung there by the mole catcher. The mole catcher is paid by the farmer and leaves the dead animals in plain sight as evidence that they are doing their job and to give the farmer an indication of the size of a field s mole population.
2016-05-27 00:35:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anthony 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dave,
I think that if you ask them they will tell you that they have already filled their pockets with them - they hang the rodents on the fence so that they will remember where they placed them. At home they empty their pockets and go back to retrieve the overage. This sounds silly, I know. But the soup made from them is delicious and stays quite nicely without refrigeration. The greater the number of rats the greater the flavor and protein. The Scots call this meal "Haggis consomee". A delight, really.
Mystery solved!
2007-07-17 04:45:36 · answer #3 · answered by Pete W 5 · 4⤊ 2⤋
When I was a boy the neighbor would pay me a dollar for each Groundhog I killed. I would hang the carcass on the fence post and he would count them, remove them and write me a check. Maybe this is what they do there also.
2007-07-20 05:54:46 · answer #4 · answered by fortyninertu 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Farmers usually inject them with poision, explosives, or other harmful substances to get rid of other larger rodents that may be uprooting the crops.
2007-07-17 14:46:07 · answer #5 · answered by 54321 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they are bats and they keep bad luck (vermin etc) away. supposedly.
I expect if I was a rodent and I saw one hanging on fence I would want to stay away from that property too.
Actually, if a rodent smells a dead rodent they stay away from that area, why I don't know.
that can be another yahoo question.
2007-07-19 06:26:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a warning to you that if you come into his fields he'll tie a knot in your tail and hang you over his fence as well.
2007-07-18 04:11:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its to warn the others off. When my dad had some goslings he shot a rook and hung it up on a big pole to keep the other rooks from pinching the goslings.
2007-07-17 05:31:00 · answer #8 · answered by willow 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's simple the odor of the decaying rodents repels anything animal that might want to steal there crop.
2007-07-17 17:31:13 · answer #9 · answered by Belgariad 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is a warning to the next guy who stops to sample the farmer's wife's hospitality?
2016-04-01 08:37:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋