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<blockquote data-quote="ZachMarkus" data-source="post: 4583310" data-attributes="member: 10323"><p>They trapped some birds on mine and my neighbors property about this time last year, (Lawrence county)10 hens and 3 jakes. I have been keeping close contact with them and have went with them to track the birds a couple of times. 2 of the hens left the flock, one went 3 miles to the north and was killed by a predator sitting on her nest. Another hen went 4 miles to the east and joined another flock. 1 of the jakes went a couple miles north and is still in that area. Another hen was killed on my neighbors place by a predator. The rest of the hens are still around and doing good and raised a few poults last year. They put trackers on some of the poults, we lost some due to pneumonia and predators but overall we had a good hatch and a pretty good survival rate which we needed. The bird numbers are slowly starting to increase in my area, I think the reason it's taken them so long to bounce back is there was so much working against them. Predators, floods, nest raiders, pneumonia in the poults..etc... with that being said you won't convince me that what happened to our birds initially back around 2010 wasn't something to do with spreading chicken litter. We went from having 200+ birds on my 1200 acres to 10-15 in a couple of years time. I just talked to a guy yesterday that has a lot of properties in Marshall county and he said 2 of his used to be best spots are almost void of turkeys now days and he said the farmer has been spreading chicken litter the last couple of years. I know of way too many instances that things like this has happened for there not to be some kind of correlation, however, I will keep continuing to do everything I can to help them out, I have been hell on the coons, skunks, possums and armadillos the last 4 or 5 years and I've killed a few coyotes as well. I don't see many bobcats but I have a hard time shooting them because I like to watch them. I know the UT guys said that some of the flocks they trapped in Bedford and Giles counties were getting hammered by coyotes and bobcats, said they lost a bunch of birds to them. I'll post an update next time I talk to them.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ZachMarkus, post: 4583310, member: 10323"] They trapped some birds on mine and my neighbors property about this time last year, (Lawrence county)10 hens and 3 jakes. I have been keeping close contact with them and have went with them to track the birds a couple of times. 2 of the hens left the flock, one went 3 miles to the north and was killed by a predator sitting on her nest. Another hen went 4 miles to the east and joined another flock. 1 of the jakes went a couple miles north and is still in that area. Another hen was killed on my neighbors place by a predator. The rest of the hens are still around and doing good and raised a few poults last year. They put trackers on some of the poults, we lost some due to pneumonia and predators but overall we had a good hatch and a pretty good survival rate which we needed. The bird numbers are slowly starting to increase in my area, I think the reason it’s taken them so long to bounce back is there was so much working against them. Predators, floods, nest raiders, pneumonia in the poults..etc... with that being said you won’t convince me that what happened to our birds initially back around 2010 wasn’t something to do with spreading chicken litter. We went from having 200+ birds on my 1200 acres to 10-15 in a couple of years time. I just talked to a guy yesterday that has a lot of properties in Marshall county and he said 2 of his used to be best spots are almost void of turkeys now days and he said the farmer has been spreading chicken litter the last couple of years. I know of way too many instances that things like this has happened for there not to be some kind of correlation, however, I will keep continuing to do everything I can to help them out, I have been hell on the coons, skunks, possums and armadillos the last 4 or 5 years and I’ve killed a few coyotes as well. I don’t see many bobcats but I have a hard time shooting them because I like to watch them. I know the UT guys said that some of the flocks they trapped in Bedford and Giles counties were getting hammered by coyotes and bobcats, said they lost a bunch of birds to them. I’ll post an update next time I talk to them. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro [/QUOTE]
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