How to Improve Turkey Populations! Expanding Turkey Populations for Future Generations (811)
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- čas přidán 1. 07. 2024
- Trapping can be a tool for wildlife managers and conservationists to maintain healthy turkey populations especially when paired with quality habitat. We are expanding turkey populations for future generations!
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Excellent video Grant, thanks. You're convencing me to begin trapping
I found in my area the biggest threat to turkey and quail population are poachers 18--50 year olds.
Gregory - is there good quail habitat there?
I have great surroundings for an assortment of wildlife. I do not allow hunt groups , clubs, nor orgnizations on the land. My background is a cattle farmer and yes I do believe in hunting. Do not care for lease hunting for several reasons. Stewardship of the Land is priority and Ethics. I careless about the money profits, because that breeds greed. Hunters are allowed on a selective bases and are restricted what they are allowed to harvest. Which hunters do not like to hear when leasing to hunt. I do not allow nor deal with hunting leases for that reason. I prefer pheseant hunting . @@GrowingDeerTV
Awesome pults and work your are doing.
Good stuff Grant!
I took up trapping again this year now that I’m retired and enjoyed every minute of it back the way was when I was a teenager. I’m tanning all the raccoon pelts and going to make trapper hats for the Grandkids. What I kept thinking while trapping was benefiting the Turkeys I intend to do again this year after the deer season is over I truly enjoyed every morning running the line.
Good info 👍
I got 115 skunks, racoons, and opossums off 76 acres last year. So far this year I am 7 ahead of last year at the same time. The main problem are all the ticks that are left in the area where my traps are. I use 220's so just getting the animals out of the traps I get ticks on me. Hopefully I will get a poult on camera this year. Four years and not a single poult on film.
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At least you know what you’re doing wrong.
Are you burning too? Fire took care of our ticks
Wow! Great job! Where are you located?
Dr Woods, what bait do you find most successful in your Havahart traps?
Excellent work as always!
I use the smelliest cat food I can find, table scrapes, dog food, candy orange slices (I eat one, and use one for bait, all day long - ha!).
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That wasn't a lot in 30 days on 55 acres I cought 61 coin 13 opossums 3 bobcats and 7 coyotes. And all with 8 footholds and 2 bobcat cages. Wonder why no more turkey around but have seen 3 this year after 8 with no sightings. Thinned the oaks marketed the cedar. A lot of burning and they are back
Nice work!!
61 coin huh
In the last couple of weeks Wild Turkey biologist Brett Collier made the claim on the Mossy Oak Gamekeeper podcast that Racoons don't predate Wild Turkey hen nests they only scavenge a nest due to another predation event caused by abandonment or predation by another animal. The hosts pressed him a little bit but I don't think he ever "produced" the relevant study/studies on his assertion. I never saw or heard any other prominent Turkey biologist confirm or deny his assertion. You would think this news would be all over the Wild Turkey hunting world but no one else has addressed it. I would think his assertion would be big news. He is a Biologist working for LSU I believe and possibly the NWTF.
I don't know Mr. Collier, I do know several researchers have shown that raccoons consume lots of sea turtle eggs on beaches, duck eggs, etc. I know many landowners that have seen significant - tangible increases in turkey populations after removing nest predators just before and during nesting season.
Everyone makes a mistake now and then. Dr Collier is simply wrong on this one, and all evidence disputes his claim.
Oh yeah!!!
Hi early
Hare's foot clover. I bought a small property and I am having a hard time finding info on this clover. I know it's invasive but will deer/turkey eat it? Is it high in protein?.....
I have never heard of Hare's foot clover. I'd be very careful planting anything that's invasie.
@GrowingDeerTV thanks. It is already on the property mixed in a food/weed plot and and along trails. AKA hare's paw and hare's tail.
@@GrowingDeerTV... I sure would never plant an invasive.
I will say it’s definitive if you want me to. 😂
I took over 60 off of 86 acres. 18 coyotes.
Wow!
Trapping Predators like Racoons Coyotes has helped the Turkey Population Stay Safe in Missouri,
I’ve heard opossums eat ticks and are “good for the ecosystem”. Is there any negative to taking out a large amount of these predators or follow up work you’ll need to do to fill in for whatever benefits they may have? Honestly curious
Corey - There was a poorly designed project years ago in NY that claimed opossums consume a lot of ticks. Most wildlife species that groom themselves (almost all of them do) consume the ticks on them as part of their grooming. Later, a much better designed research project in Illinois showed opossums don't consume more ticks than other critters and I'd certainly rather see and eat a turkey than an opossum.
What do you do with the trapped predators? Throw them away?
We've made blankets - you can see them on this channel, make jerky, etc.
@@GrowingDeerTV awesome, was just curious
@thisguy2720 did u watch the video
@@longbeardmcstruttin5876 was in the process, did you?