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Started by Jim K, June 17, 2016, 05:36:39 PM
Quote from: Farmboy27 on June 17, 2016, 06:17:43 PMI'm in central pa as well. Saw a few batches so far. Saw an old hen with 9 last evening. They were about quail size. Saw one with 11 last week. Also saw one that only had 2! I'm always on the lookout and I'm always a bit worried when I don't see as many as I think I should but there ain't much I can do about it! On a side note, I don't worry or blame the weather too much with poult survival. I worry much more about the increasing predators, namely fishers. Our game commission thought it wise to reintroduce fishers to the state and by doing so introduced a perfect poult killing machine. Add in the bobcats that the game commission try's so hard to get to expand and you have double trouble! I never will understand why certain people feel the need to restore an animal that has been absent from an environment for so many years. So much changes in those years that a once viable animal can easily become a detrimental one in today's world!
Quote from: snapper1982 on June 17, 2016, 06:34:49 PMQuote from: Farmboy27 on June 17, 2016, 06:17:43 PMI'm in central pa as well. Saw a few batches so far. Saw an old hen with 9 last evening. They were about quail size. Saw one with 11 last week. Also saw one that only had 2! I'm always on the lookout and I'm always a bit worried when I don't see as many as I think I should but there ain't much I can do about it! On a side note, I don't worry or blame the weather too much with poult survival. I worry much more about the increasing predators, namely fishers. Our game commission thought it wise to reintroduce fishers to the state and by doing so introduced a perfect poult killing machine. Add in the bobcats that the game commission try's so hard to get to expand and you have double trouble! I never will understand why certain people feel the need to restore an animal that has been absent from an environment for so many years. So much changes in those years that a once viable animal can easily become a detrimental one in today's world! The weather has the opportunity to kill far more poults than any fisher or bobcat. Put bad weather with those two and you have a perfect storm of sorts for low survival rates.