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Does anyone have Richard's contact info

General Forum / Re: Jakes on accident...

Last post by KYTurkey07 - Today at 09:01:16 AM

I've killed 2 jakes kinda on accident. In KY you can take two bearded birds so I don't feel bad. Neither of them strutted, I couldn't see their spurs or the length of their beards. If I had known and waited, a big boy might have been trailing behind. Then again, they might have been all alone. No regrets.

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General Forum / Re: Turkey Numbers

Last post by eggshell - Today at 08:07:57 AM

That's sadly the common response around the country NativeKS. Thank you for your part and work. I don't know whatthe answer is. Besides money it takes time and equipment and those are both items that are a premium to farmers or absent for forest land owners. I don't know if it would be feasible for wildlife agencies and organizations to develop mobile teams to do work or not. Your talking a huge price tag. I am guilty as well. I have the equipment and the time and I could do more. I do have a plan in place on my small farm, but I need to change a couple fallow fields to better plantings. One by the woods is all fescue and I need to convert it to clover. I have managed my timber to preserve mast producers and enhance understory and travel lanes. I have ponds for water as well. The rub is the family has probably 10 remote fields in forest lands and none of them are managed for turkeys. I would have to trans port my equipment to the farm to do the work, but convincing them to purchase the required seed is unlikely. They are happy with the fescue fields they just mow once a year. If they got paid to do it they might I'd donate the time and my equipment and I know a buddy that would donate his equipment as well. I have brought it up and got "we'll think about it" as an answer. Seed, fertilizer and fuel for just a couple large food plots and clover for a few acres of fields would run in excess of $ 2,000.00. When you tell non hunting landowners it'll mean more wildlife they just answer there's plenty of wildlife now. Why should I spend that money? Farmers will often think, "yeah more deer to eat my crops". It's a tough sell for sure.