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Nest predator
#4111557
04/04/24 08:11 AM
04/04/24 08:11 AM
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bham
crocker
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bham
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Re: Nest predator
[Re: crocker]
#4111746
04/04/24 04:17 PM
04/04/24 04:17 PM
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Awbarn, AL
CNC
Dances With Weeds
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Dances With Weeds
Joined: Jun 2012
Posts: 21,797
Awbarn, AL
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I don’t know if this is it but the professor from LSU has been talking about how what we attribute to nest raiding by coons may actually be coyotes, bobcats, etc running the hen off their nests and then coons just scavenging the remains. Said he observed a hen or hens defending their nest against coons in one of their studies….. His idea kinda comes across as down playing the impacts of racoons. I would tend to think that a big coon or a group of several coons are going to be very persistent on raiding a nest once they find it even if the hen does initially defend it.
Last edited by CNC; 04/04/24 04:18 PM.
We dont rent pigs
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Re: Nest predator
[Re: CNC]
#4111977
04/04/24 09:29 PM
04/04/24 09:29 PM
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Jasper
PaytonWP
spike
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I don’t know if this is it but the professor from LSU has been talking about how what we attribute to nest raiding by coons may actually be coyotes, bobcats, etc running the hen off their nests and then coons just scavenging the remains. Said he observed a hen or hens defending their nest against coons in one of their studies….. His idea kinda comes across as down playing the impacts of racoons. I would tend to think that a big coon or a group of several coons are going to be very persistent on raiding a nest once they find it even if the hen does initially defend it. I’m with you on that thinking. I would be surprised if they did not check the nest daily. I would think raccoons require more nutrients and have to scavenge more right now than any other time of the year. The Boars have been rutting, the Sows are getting ready to give birth, and to top it all off they have just had their dinner plate “corn from deer hunters” taken away. That would make any animal take more risk to be able to eat.
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Re: Nest predator
[Re: Frankie]
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04/04/24 10:08 PM
04/04/24 10:08 PM
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South Alabama
gobbler
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South Alabama
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Imo , i believe fire ants are way over looked. I never read any thing about the effects of fire ants .
They were hell on our bantam chickens. We used to have all kinds of ground nesting birds babies running around here but not any more . Typically minimal impact (4%) on quail nests, probably less on turkey nests. https://trace.tennessee.edu/nqsp/vol8/iss1/88/
I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine
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Re: Nest predator
[Re: gobbler]
#4112022
04/04/24 11:30 PM
04/04/24 11:30 PM
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Elmore County
Frankie
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
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Imo , i believe fire ants are way over looked. I never read any thing about the effects of fire ants .
They were hell on our bantam chickens. We used to have all kinds of ground nesting birds babies running around here but not any more . Typically minimal impact (4%) on quail nests, probably less on turkey nests. https://trace.tennessee.edu/nqsp/vol8/iss1/88/I don't know . I do know they were rough on the chickens here . If we didn't watch the bantam we had they'd get ever nest . 20 years ago we a good many quail, field larks, Killdeer . None here now . Had to watch the blue bird boxes .
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Re: Nest predator
[Re: crocker]
#4112065
04/05/24 06:34 AM
04/05/24 06:34 AM
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Clanton
Turkey_neck
Booner
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Booner
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Clanton
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Well my old deaf half crippled mountain cur is still doing his part. We’ve killed several coons and possums the last month.
Would walk over a naked woman to get to a gobblin turkey!
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