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<blockquote data-quote="megalomaniac" data-source="post: 4905312" data-attributes="member: 2805"><p>I'm all for simple as long as the population is doing just fine. but I doubt the general hunting public would be fine with simple regulations that would be needed during the years when reproduction is poor.</p><p></p><p>Lets be honest, a 3 bird limit does nothing. Pushing the season back 1 week does nothing but make us feel like we are making a difference. But those good feelings won't put any more poults on the ground.</p><p></p><p>To really make a difference, season needs to be delayed until the end of April in TN. Limits are irrelevant. Anything less than that is just pissing in the wind.</p><p></p><p>On another note, I don't know if it is a statewide issue, but this year we chopped up an unusally high number of nesting hens. Early spring greenup caused the hayfields to get taller sooner, attracting more hens to them to initiate nests. Wet late spring caused us to delay timing of cutting hay. Normally, hens will flush off their nests while cutting hay (because they are early in the incubation process); this year, they were close to hatching by the time we were able to finally cut... so the hens wouldn't flush and got chopped up with their nests. If that is a statewide issue and not just a local issue limited to my areas, we might actually see a negative population impact from late spring hay season.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="megalomaniac, post: 4905312, member: 2805"] I'm all for simple as long as the population is doing just fine. but I doubt the general hunting public would be fine with simple regulations that would be needed during the years when reproduction is poor. Lets be honest, a 3 bird limit does nothing. Pushing the season back 1 week does nothing but make us feel like we are making a difference. But those good feelings won't put any more poults on the ground. To really make a difference, season needs to be delayed until the end of April in TN. Limits are irrelevant. Anything less than that is just pissing in the wind. On another note, I don't know if it is a statewide issue, but this year we chopped up an unusally high number of nesting hens. Early spring greenup caused the hayfields to get taller sooner, attracting more hens to them to initiate nests. Wet late spring caused us to delay timing of cutting hay. Normally, hens will flush off their nests while cutting hay (because they are early in the incubation process); this year, they were close to hatching by the time we were able to finally cut... so the hens wouldn't flush and got chopped up with their nests. If that is a statewide issue and not just a local issue limited to my areas, we might actually see a negative population impact from late spring hay season. [/QUOTE]
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