First 10 poults for 2024

[horntagger]

First 10 poults for 2024 – May 22. On Camera in Bollinger County, Missouri with 9.77 inches of rain since April 11th on my 84 acres of managed Oak and Hickory habitat.











It’s simple You must participate in methods (Habitat and Trapping). To save more hens to nest, lay eggs, and raise broods, to help more eggs survive and hatch and for more poults survive. Than the predators, nest predators land and air, snakes, birds of prey and weather kills.


Now thru the next two weeks we are in the heart of the initial wild turkey nest success in Missouri based off weather ONLY and poults on the ground trying to regulate body temperature. After poults can fly the survival rates go up dramatically.


2023 - Rain Fall from April 11 thru May 22 – 12.04 inches of rain with estimated hatch around May 25 and had 13 hens with 44 poults by the end of June.


Trap, Trap and Trap more!!!!


Triple your impact on wildlife population.

YOU can't control Weather.

YOU can't control Acorn production.

YOU can't control Game and Fish Regulations.

YOU can't control poor habitat management on public lands.

YOU can’t control Forest Service burns during nesting season.

YOU can't control the greed of conservation groups.

YOU can't control other hunters.

YOU can't control birds of prey.

YOU can't control snakes.

Got to let all that go.

You can only control -

1. Pulling the trigger or not,

2. Increase and maintain your habitat on your property,

3. Trap, trap then trap some more.

YOU can make a difference and only YOU can decide. Increasing the Flock and Herd one season at a time.

 

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Great to see

 

[KSQ2]

First 10 poults for 2024 – May 22. On Camera in Bollinger County, Missouri with 9.77 inches of rain since April 11th on my 84 acres of managed Oak and Hickory habitat.

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It’s simple You must participate in methods (Habitat and Trapping). To save more hens to nest, lay eggs, and raise broods, to help more eggs survive and hatch and for more poults survive. Than the predators, nest predators land and air, snakes, birds of prey and weather kills.


Now thru the next two weeks we are in the heart of the initial wild turkey nest success in Missouri based off weather ONLY and poults on the ground trying to regulate body temperature. After poults can fly the survival rates go up dramatically.


2023 - Rain Fall from April 11 thru May 22 – 12.04 inches of rain with estimated hatch around May 25 and had 13 hens with 44 poults by the end of June.


Trap, Trap and Trap more!!!!


Triple your impact on wildlife population.

YOU can't control Weather.

YOU can't control Acorn production.

YOU can't control Game and Fish Regulations.

YOU can't control poor habitat management on public lands.

YOU can’t control Forest Service burns during nesting season.

YOU can't control the greed of conservation groups.

YOU can't control other hunters.

YOU can't control birds of prey.

YOU can't control snakes.

Got to let all that go.

You can only control -

1. Pulling the trigger or not,

2. Increase and maintain your habitat on your property,

3. Trap, trap then trap some more.

YOU can make a difference and only YOU can decide. Increasing the Flock and Herd one season at a time.

Not to open a huge can of worms, but you can add stop feeding corn to the list of what you can do. Quite a few southern university studies attest to this with interesting outcomes. The most basic reason though, is the profound impact high quantities of corn have had on making the coon population explode.

 

[KSQ2]

Is Your Deer Bait Killing Turkeys?

As turkey numbers decline, some are wondering if all those corn piles could be part of the problem

realtree.com

 

[George]

In my first 5 years here in Kentucky, 19-23, I saw zero turkeys poults. I have now, almost, finished TSI on 164 acres. My burning has gone from 1 acre burn units to 26 acre burn units. This year me and the dogs have bumped up turkey clutches 6 times and I also have them on camera. Not clutches of one poult but lots of poults. We bumped a clutch yesterday morning off of a food plot down in the ditch.

G