Buzzard Breath
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SentHere is a link to send a letter to your legislators opposing this bill:
Mine has been sent. If you oppose this foolishness, I hope you will respond as well.
Thanks for the link
SentHere is a link to send a letter to your legislators opposing this bill:
Mine has been sent. If you oppose this foolishness, I hope you will respond as well.
Agreed. Feeding backyard animals has created a generational decline in acceptance of hunting.Wild animals should never be pets.
According to well designed studies by MS State, only 30% of corn gets consumed by deer. The other 70% is eaten by other critters (mostly raccoons)In many corn-baiting situations, raccoons & crows eat more of the corn than do deer.
I know many deer hunters could care less about turkeys (and other birds), but crows may in fact break up more turkey nests in many areas than do raccoons.
Crows are very quick to notice a nest-sitting hen turkey periodically leave her nest for feed & water. When she leaves, those perched crows (some of them also nesting high in a tree above the nesting turkeys on the ground) note the dozen eggs now visible. Crows eat turkey eggs, as does about everything else.
I would assume corn aflatoxin would kill a crow as fast as a turkey, but it may be that crows are so much smarter than turkeys, they know better than to eat it?
Im not worried about the corn the deer eat. Its the turkeys, birds, and other wildlife.According to well designed studies by MS State, only 30% of corn gets consumed by deer. The other 70% is eaten by other critters (mostly raccoons)
You may not worry, but feeders (even if not corn) increase predation by dogs & coyotes, and the deer preyed most on become male fawns.Im not worried about the corn the deer eat.
While I agree to your fairness statement. Legal Baiting on public land would be a site to see. You'd have acres upon acres with piles of everything known to man. I don't see why they would legalize baiting at this point in the game. Are they trying to explode the cwd rate or what. Cause the info the TWRA puts out about CWD and how it's transmitted would be awfully misleading and very counterproductive. If we are to believe what they put out.I don't disagree. And you won't catch me saying baiting is a good thing regardless of time of year or for what reason. If it's bad for wildlife then it's bad for wildlife.
As I understand it baiting is illegal for hunting not because of it's detriment to wildlife but because it gives unfair advantage to one hunter over another by altering the deer movement. Simply put the guy with the biggest pile of bait has the deer and his neighbors do not. Public land hunters get completely left out. Yet we all pay the same price for a license so we should all have equal opportunity. If fairness is the objective then the proposal should be legal baiting ANYWHERE, not just private land. But the proposal has nothing to do with fairness. It's all about a rich politician allowing his rich buddies to legally hoard the lion's share of deer. Call a spade a spade. It is what it is.
What i mean is the other wildlife is at a much higher risk than deer. Baiting is irresponsible.You may not worry, but feeders (even if not corn) increase predation by dogs & coyotes, and the deer preyed most on become male fawns.
"Feeding" or "Baiting" locations become great ambush sites for predators, due to the deer/turkey going to & from an exact "spot", as opposed to being all over a "field" of food.
I agree with thatWild animals should never be pets.
While I agree to your fairness statement. Legal Baiting on public land would be a site to see. You'd have acres upon acres with piles of everything known to man. I don't see why they would legalize baiting at this point in the game. Are they trying to explode the cwd rate or what. Cause the info the TWRA puts out about CWD and how it's transmitted would be awfully misleading and very counterproductive. If we are to believe what they put out.
I couldn't imagine what it would look like if baiting was allowed on public!
That, too.And yes if baiting is legalized it will look awful hypocritical for the efforts of combating CWD.
It is not the same thing. Please read the entire thread and educate yourself. Opinions should always be based on facts. I don't mean that in an abrasive way.I think it should be...people who hunt food plots are already doing the same thing...so why not?
That is absolutely not true. I know plenty of guys that do not bait but would if it were legal.It won't make a difference if it becomes legal or not. Everyone who would bait if it were legal already does and those who don't now wouldn't anyway. Just a bunch of hot air.
That may be the dumbest statement in the whole thread.I think it should be...people who hunt food plots are already doing the same thing...so why not?