Originally Posted by TurkeyJoe
Corn in this part of the world is definitely detrimental to turkeys at certain times of the year. I hunted a place in sw ms yesterday morning, and when I walked by a feeder from deer season there was a couple handfuls of severely mildewed corn under it. I would expect the aflatoxin load in that spot to be through the roof right now. A lot of people will say “Texas has been feeding corn for years and it doesn’t hurt the turkeys”. I would say that corn on the ground in sw ms or lower Alabama at 75-90 percent humidity is vastly different than corn on the ground on the Edwards plateau at 15-20 percent humidity and a deer density so high that the corn doesn’t stay on the ground 4 hours. Just my opinion

I hear you but the idea of baiting and aflatoxins being the cause of turkey decline just don’t add up to me…….Its something that if it were a major issue I would expect it to be extremely detrimental and not something that just has a little bit of an impact……I would also expect it to have a disproportionate effect in the deep south versus other areas…….In other words we should be able to point to south Alabama and show how much worse the decline is there than other places…..I just wonder if we’re taking research from domestic birds and applying to the wild population expecting it to be the same result…

Last edited by CNC; 03/15/26 10:18 AM.
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