I could use a Little Help...
12-12-2011, 12:28 PM
#3
Fork Horn
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It is a problem when they roost right outside your office window. However, sometimes they join the deer and make for a nice picture. Note the three bucks, a doe and fawns and a small family flock one morning in late Spetember.
12-12-2011, 01:30 PM
#6
Nontypical Buck
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This is a problem for you? I sure wish I had that problem. If you need help in exterminating those pesky creatures this Spring, I'm your man. BTW, they won't be there that thick come springtime, but there should be a few still around. I'll be anxiously waiting for an invite this Spring to help you with your problem.
12-12-2011, 02:45 PM
#7
Fork Horn
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Super- They have been that thick every spring for the last few years. They split up some but it is not uncommon to see six or eight longbeards strutting in a field right in the middle of the season. The three flocks here close to the house number around 200 birds. A year ago we trapped and transplanted 80 and it didn't even make a dint in them.
12-13-2011, 11:22 AM
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Fork Horn
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Sorry, I had to get busy and get my newspaper column done and the pictures pulled.
Now.
The help I need is two-fold. I need to find a way to educate the surrounding neighbors as to the perils of feeding the dang things. and I need a way to reduce the total number by about 75% without hunting. Hunting just won't get rid of enough birds to do any good. You have to keep in mind, I live almost in town. The city limit run through my back yard. However, hunting is permitted in the city limits. But once those birds get across the road and into the yards, you can't shoot them for safety reasons.
I can kill four in the spring-all gobblers and six in the fall if I play it right, either sex. That does nothing. I can't invite anyone because my landowner will not premit it. Sometimes that is a blessing
Here is just how bad it is. The landowner put out 50# of corn in his feed bunkers. In two hours it was gone and none of it went to a cow.
So...I need a legal, effective way to reduce the three flocks to 50-50 birds. As far as I can tell, short of a disease, it is impossible.
Now.
The help I need is two-fold. I need to find a way to educate the surrounding neighbors as to the perils of feeding the dang things. and I need a way to reduce the total number by about 75% without hunting. Hunting just won't get rid of enough birds to do any good. You have to keep in mind, I live almost in town. The city limit run through my back yard. However, hunting is permitted in the city limits. But once those birds get across the road and into the yards, you can't shoot them for safety reasons.
I can kill four in the spring-all gobblers and six in the fall if I play it right, either sex. That does nothing. I can't invite anyone because my landowner will not premit it. Sometimes that is a blessing
Here is just how bad it is. The landowner put out 50# of corn in his feed bunkers. In two hours it was gone and none of it went to a cow.
So...I need a legal, effective way to reduce the three flocks to 50-50 birds. As far as I can tell, short of a disease, it is impossible.