Grant Woods on turkeys.

[Dtrkyman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzIn0dSgeiU

[Tail Feathers]

Thanks for posting that.  Good info and a solid closing message too.

[Dtrkyman]

His deer management info on that channel is excellent!

[bossgobbler]

Thank you for sharing this with us. That was a lot of great info. I will certainly be passing this along. We all need to take action.

[Jimspur]

I read something interesting in the comments on the video. A guy said he
was observing a hen with poults near his house and a flock of crows came 
in and took every poult.

I guess the crows gotta go too.

Turkeys have a lot of things going against them.

[Dtrkyman]

Everything wants to eat turkey, can't say I blame em!

Quality habitat trumps all in my opinion.  Bush Honeysuckle is becoming a real problem in Illinois and Missouri, there is just no ground cover once it takes over!

The cattle pasture he talks about being cool season grass as well, I mean Missouri is loaded with these beautiful green fields in the spring and not many turkeys are in them in my experience.

[silvestris]

I read something interesting in the comments on the video. A guy said he
was observing a hen with poults near his house and a flock of crows came 
in and took every poult.

I guess the crows gotta go too.

Turkeys have a lot of things going against them.

I call BS.  Eggs yes; poults no.

[Jimspur]

I read something interesting in the comments on the video. A guy said he
was observing a hen with poults near his house and a flock of crows came 
in and took every poult.

I guess the crows gotta go too.

Turkeys have a lot of things going against them.

I call BS.  Eggs yes; poults no.

I've never witnessed it, but I Googled it and there is a lot of info about
crows killing birds. Read about it and then post your thoughts.

I put, "will crows kill young birds" into Google.

[ChesterCopperpot]

I read something interesting in the comments on the video. A guy said he
was observing a hen with poults near his house and a flock of crows came 
in and took every poult.

I guess the crows gotta go too.

Turkeys have a lot of things going against them.

I call BS.  Eggs yes; poults no.

If they'll kill calves and lambs I don't know what in the world would stop them from killing poults.


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[Jimspur]

I read something interesting in the comments on the video. A guy said he
was observing a hen with poults near his house and a flock of crows came 
in and took every poult.

I guess the crows gotta go too.

Turkeys have a lot of things going against them.

I call BS.  Eggs yes; poults no.

If they'll kill calves and lambs I don't know what in the world would stop them from killing poults.


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I didn't know about calves and lambs. They're definitely opportunists.

[Jimspur]

I read something interesting in the comments on the video. A guy said he
was observing a hen with poults near his house and a flock of crows came 
in and took every poult.

I guess the crows gotta go too.

Turkeys have a lot of things going against them.

I call BS.  Eggs yes; poults no.

If they'll kill calves and lambs I don't know what in the world would stop them from killing poults.


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I read about crows and ravens attacking calves and lambs - those birds
are vicious.

Grant Woods had some interesting points in his video.

[GobbleNut]

They're definitely opportunists.

That's a big part of the problem.  There are too many "opportunists" out there nowadays.  In addition, many of them are protected species  based on their historical numbers from decades ago rather than their population status today.  Around these parts, crows and ravens are protected species and they are totally out of control numbers-wise. 

[Greg Massey]

Nothing better than improving the habitat and predator control. Good information in the video...

[Sir-diealot]

I read something interesting in the comments on the video. A guy said he
was observing a hen with poults near his house and a flock of crows came 
in and took every poult.

I guess the crows gotta go too.

Turkeys have a lot of things going against them.

Last year a few members and others in the country did a test were they set up fake nests and put eggs in them and set it up to look like turkey nests and they videoed the nest with motion activated cameras and the top animal to come in and wreck nests/eat eggs were crows. I think one of the members and his daughter did it and they had posted a video I do believe. I do not recall whom it was though.

[Spurs Up]

They're definitely opportunists.

That's a big part of the problem.  There are too many "opportunists" out there nowadays.  In addition, many of them are protected species  based on their historical numbers from decades ago rather than their population status today.  Around these parts, crows and ravens are protected species and they are totally out of control numbers-wise.

We can say in this forum there are too many crows, too many raccoons, too many coyotes, too many you name it that will eat a turkey. And we can say we need to kill more of them. How do you explain that to the masses that don't hunt and might care as much or more about a crow as they do a gobbler?  To them, it must sound like we want to kill crows so they won't kill turkeys, so we can kill the turkeys the crows would have killed. 

I don't think they would see that as balancing nature.