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Post by deputydon on Apr 24, 2008 10:52:04 GMT -5
This spring for the first time in at least 3 years I have spotted pheasants on my place !!! I'm in my third year of organic (No chemicals) farming and have to wonder if this is a side effect of the lack of chemicals ? There always was pheasants around until I started using chemicals and they gradually disappeared. I'm hopeing to be able to shoot a few each winter while trying to build the population back up.
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Post by Jack on Apr 24, 2008 11:20:11 GMT -5
Most interesting !
Pheasants have disappeared around here, too, and there are a lot of theories as to why...
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Post by klsm54 on Apr 24, 2008 17:42:35 GMT -5
Well Don, hopefully your organic farming is paying off. A nice self sustaining population of Ringnecks would be nice to have around.
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Post by bounce on Apr 24, 2008 18:13:26 GMT -5
I think DD has a good chance, When you stop farming the way we do now and do it more like the way we did, You leave a lot more cover and feed, and no herbisides & ect. sure can't hurt a thing for birds, His bigest threat willbe preditors, Like him self & his kids....smiles.
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Post by dovehunter on Apr 29, 2008 14:16:00 GMT -5
I can't help but wonder sometimes if what you described (coupled with so-called "clean farming") is the reason that rabbits have all but become extinct around here. They're all over the place in subdivisions but you just can't find them anywhere out in the wild.
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Post by jmarriott on Apr 29, 2008 16:32:25 GMT -5
I think the lack of fencerows has weakened the ringnecks in Indiana. Been many a year since i have seen a wild ringneck.
I saw 2 in the last 2 years and wondered why i was seeing them now. What i did not know was that the new neighbor of my dad's has two high price GSP's and releases the birds all the time and does not alway all of harvest them.
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Post by Jack on Apr 30, 2008 9:14:27 GMT -5
"I think the lack of fencerows has weakened the ringnecks...."
That's one of the leading theories as to why pheasants have decined so badly in NY state, too.
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Post by dovehunter on Apr 30, 2008 14:21:17 GMT -5
We don't have wild pheasants around here anyway (much to my dismay) but, where rabbits are concerned, the lack of fence rows is probably a big factor. Come to think of it, bobwhite quail are all but extinct around here too. Probably for the same reasons.
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Post by deputydon on Apr 30, 2008 20:42:05 GMT -5
If chemicals can make a grown man sick and it happens all the time.... Imagine what they do to young chicks and/or young rabbits or any thing else thats small!!!! Thats most likely the #1 reason why small wildlife of all kinds are on the decline. Along w/ the loss of habitat....
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Post by Jack on Apr 30, 2008 22:53:11 GMT -5
D-D, that makes sense
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