Ok……I’ve listened to it and I get the point Dr Lashley made about the predator potentially eating a sick turkey and removing that predator doesn’t stop the hen from dying and we need to know for sure that the hen didn’t die from something other than the yote etc etc…….However, everything they’ve told me up until now says that the majority of hen mortality occurs during nesting……and I’ve even pointed out the Jones Study that showed 82% survival in hens that incubated a nest…….All I’m saying is, it sounds like we have it pretty narrowed down as to when hens are dying and that its associated with nesting…….

In all fairness I will say that there IS the possibility that something crazy could be happening to the hens while nesting like baiting has caused egg circumference to increase causing them to hang up in the turkey’s butt and they’re actually dying of dysentery and predators are eating them later and we could be blaming the wrong variable…….But if I had to guess its not that and its simply predators killing hens off of the nest grin

Let me say this though, I totally get nuance and I definitely look at things from lots of angles……The reason I simplify down to setting some footholds is because at the end of the day when all of the talking is done, if anything is going to change then SOMETHING has to be done to be the catalyst of that change……When all is said and done that list of potential options isnt very long……A lot of folks setting footholds in the spring is about the best thing you got…..Creating another burn unit ^^^^^^ that sits hens out on the edge waiting for yotes to come by doesn’t change anything

Last edited by CNC; 03/17/26 04:02 PM.
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