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Re: New Research Findings! Turkeys For Tomorrow!
[Re: Gobble4me757]
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01/29/23 10:01 PM
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Awbarn, AL
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How many turkeys and quail do you think we would have in comparison if we started managing cattle in Alabama in fields that look like what the guy in the video was standing in instead of doing it the way we do it now?? You want to talk about making wholesale changes…..there you go. It wont change though because of the cattle man changing......It'll only happens when the quail plantation paves the way so to speak
Last edited by CNC; 01/29/23 10:02 PM.
We dont rent pigs
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Re: New Research Findings! Turkeys For Tomorrow!
[Re: Gobble4me757]
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01/29/23 10:44 PM
01/29/23 10:44 PM
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Posts: 3,726 Harvest, AL
AU coonhunter
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That habitat does look good, but the average cattle man in Alabama doesn’t have the acreage that the farms in Texas have. I would guess that most cattle farms here are 200-500 acres and usually not in one block, whereas out west 10s of thousands of acres aren’t out of the norm. Other than East Texas, you are looking at 8-100+ acres per cow/calf pair out west, where here you can run a pair per 2 acres. If habitat was your main goal, you could always run less numbers and be able to do your patch burns. But profit margins on cattle are so slim as it is, that the majority of them wouldn’t be able to afford the loss. Not to mention the initial cost of fencing, working facilities, equipment, hay, mineral, vaccines, etc. It sounds like a good idea, but I just don’t think it would work here very easily. If I had the place and money to manage strictly for wildlife, I wouldn’t worry about the hassle of running cattle on it.
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Re: New Research Findings! Turkeys For Tomorrow!
[Re: AU coonhunter]
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01/29/23 11:41 PM
01/29/23 11:41 PM
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Posts: 21,838 Awbarn, AL
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Dances With Weeds
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If I had the place and money to manage strictly for wildlife, I wouldn’t worry about the hassle of running cattle on it. But if you’re running 60-80% grass in the understory instead of 20-30%.......and you’re soil OM levels are 2% instead of 6% and so on…..then you’re not really “maximizing wildlife production”……..How do you accomplish these things?
We dont rent pigs
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