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Just saw a quail in back acreage...,..
Posted on 6/17/20 at 3:30 pm
Posted on 6/17/20 at 3:30 pm
Think that is so cool, haven’t seen one in years! Last year I didn’t mow about a half acre.... letting it go wild. So it’s been about 17 months since it’s been mowed. Big ole bobwhite hiding beneath my muscadines. Walked back to house and heard him call. Plan on killing off as many fire ants as I can now, already got about 80 percent of them.
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Posted on 6/17/20 at 3:45 pm to dtett
At first I thought it was a half grown baby duck. Then I looked at it more carefully. If it stays around I'm gonna expand my no mowing zone. Somehow that little thing made me feel really good and brought back some good memories.
Posted on 6/17/20 at 3:47 pm to jeffsdad
Thats awesome. Where are you located?
Need to kill varmints as well because they will eat the eggs.
Need to kill varmints as well because they will eat the eggs.
Posted on 6/17/20 at 4:12 pm to jeffsdad
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Think that is so cool, haven’t seen one in years! Last year I didn’t mow about a half acre.... letting it go wild. So it’s been about 17 months since it’s been mowed. Big ole bobwhite hiding beneath my muscadines. Walked back to house and heard him call. Plan on killing off as many fire ants as I can now, already got about 80 percent of them.
At the end of next winter, do a controlled burn of the area. If you have a way to disk up the soil after the burn, do that also.
Posted on 6/17/20 at 4:23 pm to jeffsdad
Don't know how much acreage you have, but in South Texas where I quail hunt, we disc about 20 foot wide strips, leaving maybe 50-75 foot wide strips untouched for cover. Discing or a controlled burn encourages the development of native grasses and forbs, which quail prefer and the untouched strips provide cover.
P.S., obviously, best not to disc during nesting season.
P.S., obviously, best not to disc during nesting season.
This post was edited on 6/17/20 at 4:24 pm
Posted on 6/17/20 at 4:28 pm to anewguy
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Need to kill varmints as well because they will eat the eggs.
add wild house cats, raccoons, armadillos, and 'possum to the list
Posted on 6/17/20 at 4:41 pm to jeffsdad
Get rid of pools of water
Anything that eats quail needs water quail don’t need standing water. Walk your property at sunrise tell me how wet your feet are!
Anything that eats quail needs water quail don’t need standing water. Walk your property at sunrise tell me how wet your feet are!
Posted on 6/17/20 at 5:27 pm to Got Blaze
Well, that’s a Little discouraging. We have 2 half feral cats and lots of other varmints. And it’s within 100 feet of a pond.
Posted on 6/17/20 at 6:51 pm to jeffsdad
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Last year I didn’t mow about a half acre
This is one of the easiest things to do for quail and turkeys put the Bushhog back in the shed
Especially this time of year when they are nesting
Posted on 6/17/20 at 6:52 pm to jeffsdad
You could also mow strips through the unmowed sections preferably not in straight lines to increase the “edge” habitat.
This post was edited on 6/18/20 at 9:57 am
Posted on 6/17/20 at 7:20 pm to jeffsdad
How many acres are we talking about?
I’m in the MS delta and have a bunch of quail. We have roughly 1,000 acres of native grass crp and tree Crp’s. It’s best to leave just as much cover as you burn or they won’t have a place to hide. Fire ants are a huge problem and used to fly poison on the crp’s.
It seems like if you have a good rabbit population you can/will have a good quail population. I see quail everyday, but it still makes me excited.
I’m in the MS delta and have a bunch of quail. We have roughly 1,000 acres of native grass crp and tree Crp’s. It’s best to leave just as much cover as you burn or they won’t have a place to hide. Fire ants are a huge problem and used to fly poison on the crp’s.
It seems like if you have a good rabbit population you can/will have a good quail population. I see quail everyday, but it still makes me excited.
Posted on 6/17/20 at 7:29 pm to Outdoorreb
Did you stock any or they just naturally there?
Posted on 6/17/20 at 7:35 pm to deeprig9
Natural as far as I know. If they were stocked it was 40+ years ago.
P.s. it’s not my property. Some people on here may know the property I’m talking about though. I know at least member has been on it
P.s. it’s not my property. Some people on here may know the property I’m talking about though. I know at least member has been on it
Posted on 6/17/20 at 9:49 pm to anewguy
Swartz
Posted on 6/17/20 at 10:08 pm to deeprig9
We are starting to see more quail on our farms. Last year cutting soybeans I jumped at least 2 coveys on every one of our farms. One has probably 20 birds in it. There is a covey beside my house of about 7 birds I see about every 2 weeks. Do not know why I am seeing more in the last few years. The turkey numbers are down quite a bit from about 5 years ago. 10 years ago there were farms in Tennessee where I would see 150 turkeys in one field. Now you might see 15. That was about the time that chicken litter got to be popular to spread on fields. Not sure if this is a major source of blackhead disease in the wild turkey population or not.
Posted on 6/17/20 at 10:08 pm to Outdoorreb
Fire ants aren’t that big of a problem. Habitat is 90%
Think about it. Killdeer nest on the ground and their eggs hatch just fine
Think about it. Killdeer nest on the ground and their eggs hatch just fine
Posted on 6/18/20 at 6:11 am to BigHoss
Killdeere nest in totally different locations. Open ag fields, turn rows, parking lots, gravel rds.
You might be right about that though. But that’s what we did and it seemed to help
You might be right about that though. But that’s what we did and it seemed to help
Posted on 6/18/20 at 8:29 am to Outdoorreb
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We have roughly 1,000 acres of native grass crp and tree Crp’s. It’s best to leave just as much cover as you burn or they won’t have a place to hide. Fire ants are a huge problem and used to fly poison on the crp’s.
The reason why you have quail is that you have habitat. Changes in farming practices and land uses are the reason why the quail are not like they used to be. Preditors add to the problem. When quail were at their max numbers in the south, farms were smaller, before roundup and bug killers, there were fence rows and before precision leveling of fields there was draws that held weeds. Kids came home from school and instead of playing video games, they picked up a bb gun, perhaps a .22 or a shotgun and they worked and played outside. They killed snakes, and armadillos and raccoons and possums, all nest preditors. The same raptors that ate quail also attacked the farm chickens, they were "pressured" to no returned.
Quail used to be everywhere because the habitat was perfect for them and the preditor numbers were artifically suppressed...
Posted on 6/18/20 at 9:14 am to jeffsdad
Flushing a covey while walking in the fields as a kid was always exciting. Little bastards sound like a machine gun when they all take off at once.
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