cww
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- Jan 28, 2010
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Eggs and Plots have lots of potential predators. Great Horned Owls will get a few grown turkeys also but impact is overall low to population
Unusual they dont come to a deer feeder especially if your baiting with corn. Thats pretty intriguing in of itself.The bait thing has always been intriguing to me. I know people do it, but from my own experience, I've never seen them in the feeders. I have a pretty decent (albeit highly transient) population in my area, and run three feeders during deer season. In the 17 years I've been here, I have never seen them in the feeders or on camera at the feeder. Of course, I've never had luck with decoys either, so it might just be me, ha.
What's really interesting about it is I have seen them walk right by it and never stop. We don't have any real corn fields close anymore. Occasionally I see them in the soy beans in late fall. Must really be fans of the local acorns.Unusual they dont come to a deer feeder especially if your baiting with corn. Thats pretty intriguing in of itself.
Alot of these fall seasons, coincide with deer season so its not too awful hard to figure out why the numbers are down.
I bet a rep from some of the big name local turkey conservation factions could speak to the effectiveness of baiting/ feeding turkeys. Or at least get people on board for how to do it, why no to do it or at least buy some tickets for raffled hunts and what not.
The bait thing has always been intriguing to me. I know people do it, but from my own experience, I've never seen them in the feeders. I have a pretty decent (albeit highly transient) population in my area, and run three feeders during deer season. In the 17 years I've been here, I have never seen them in the feeders or on camera at the feeder. Of course, I've never had luck with decoys either, so it might just be me,
That is weird.What's really interesting about it is I have seen them walk right by it and never stop. We don't have any real corn fields close anymore. Occasionally I see them in the soy beans in late fall. Must really be fans of the local acorns.