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General Discussion => General Forum => Topic started by: BlakeJ on February 26, 2014, 11:23:21 AM

Title: Predator management for turkeys?
Post by: BlakeJ on February 26, 2014, 11:23:21 AM
Bobcats and coyotes are probably the only predators out there that can handle an adult bird, but what about nest raiders and poult eaters? Coons, possums, skunks, what else?
Title: Re: Predator management for turkeys?
Post by: Gooserbat on February 26, 2014, 11:31:28 AM
Basically any furbearer that's a carnivore makes the list.  When you consider how many nest coons break up they probably account for more turkeys than any of the others.
Title: Re: Predator management for turkeys?
Post by: Vabirddog on February 26, 2014, 11:54:50 AM
Hawks, owls etc., snakes, crows, dogs, cats, and one of the greatest impacts..  Haybine.
Title: Re: Predator management for turkeys?
Post by: beagler on February 26, 2014, 06:49:38 PM
+ fishers in my area.
Title: Re: Predator management for turkeys?
Post by: mikejd on February 26, 2014, 08:23:51 PM
Sux for those poor birds.
Title: Re: Predator management for turkeys?
Post by: darn2ten on February 26, 2014, 08:30:59 PM
There's one pretty big area that I use to hunt quite a bit. Back it the early to mid 90's the birds were pretty thick there. There was a group of boys that coon hunted that area pretty hard back then. Today nobody has really coon hunted it in the last 8 to 10 years and there is not 1/3 of the turkeys there use to be.