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re: Late Season Training - English Pointers
Posted on 10/21/13 at 3:13 pm to wickowick
Posted on 10/21/13 at 3:13 pm to wickowick
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He has been experimenting for the past 4-5 years and has decided the best way to get and keep birds is habitat and mass releases of birds. He is making progress...
Well that's outstanding! Let me ask you this..
How wild are these quail he is raising? Does he feed them? Does he have shelter for them to stay in? ie. call back cage
Tell me more.
My logic is this, their aren't a lot of quail hunters in the cenla area anymore, thus little to no hunting pressure.. I don't see why they can't flourish with the right habitat management and I'm not sure what else needs to be done other than yearly control burning. My father was a forester for 45 years... he's got a little experience in that department.
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Posted on 10/21/13 at 3:29 pm to eyepooted
Hunters are not the problem, it is the habitat and the habitat fragmentation. Quail are the shrimp of the land, EVERYTHING eats them. Snakes, armadillos, coons, possums, ants, yotes, bobcats, etc all get the eggs and babies. Birds of prey take the adults. Hunters are far from the quail's problem.
These quail are as wild as anything you will find. LDWF considers a released quail to be wild if they produced 2 generations of offspring. A bird in the wild 1 month will act very wild.
The habitat management cost lots of money. Grasses turn to woody plants too quick in Louisiana. I saw a study where the land required to sustain a wild population is 2k acres. Quail need farmers to leave a 30' wide border of natural grasses around fields. It is really an uphill battle only for those with land and money to burn (literally)...
These quail are as wild as anything you will find. LDWF considers a released quail to be wild if they produced 2 generations of offspring. A bird in the wild 1 month will act very wild.
The habitat management cost lots of money. Grasses turn to woody plants too quick in Louisiana. I saw a study where the land required to sustain a wild population is 2k acres. Quail need farmers to leave a 30' wide border of natural grasses around fields. It is really an uphill battle only for those with land and money to burn (literally)...
Posted on 10/21/13 at 3:49 pm to eyepooted
The problem with low #s is redtails, crows, skunks and fricking coons.. and pigs according to my dad's best friend, he was a Va DWL game biologist legend supposedly
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