139 Predators Trapped: How This is Impacting Turkey Populations! (758)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 พ.ค. 2023
- This video sheds light on the benefits of trapping and how it aids in the sustainable management and preservation of turkey populations.
Trapping can be a tool for wildlife managers and conservationists to maintain healthy turkey populations especially when paired with quality habitat.
In this educational video, we'll discuss rising nest predator numbers and how habitat improvement techniques and trapping can contribute to the overall welfare of turkey populations.
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As a trapper and turkey hunter for the last 43 years I totally agree.
Thanks for making these videos!
Lots to learn from Grants Knowledge Kendall!
The state of Georgia now allows trappings possums and racoons year around in additions to coyotes .I have taken a total of 6 since the regular trapping season ended in Feb on my 70 acres .Turkey season ended this evening and hopefully I am helping more polts to survive .
Nice!
I ran 4 cage traps first 3 months of 2023 and took out 26 racoons and possums on our 523 ac tract. I hope I saved a nest or two!
Great video and right on point. I removed more than 60 raccoons last season on 230 acres. Keep up the great work Dr. Grant.
Nice work!
Grant, this is why I appreciate you so much more than most influencers on here. You invest time in the truth not just pushing products and propaganda of big business. Thanks for your hard work, too many people like pulling the trigger but don’t put in the work off season trapping. Nicely done
I own a small vineyard. I keep four Coon cuff traps and two coniber traps going non stop for about ten weeks each year, raccoons and opossums are extremely hard on grape production. My seasonal tally on these two egg eater species is always above 50 animals. Over the winter I leave my deer carcasses out and by shooting the same I run the annual tally to over 75 per year for the last six years. The increase in the number of turkeys has been steady and dramatic. Six traps and a few bullets can make a big impact
I've been trapping for 7 years now. I see more turkeys and quail every year. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Off 120 acres last year we got 80 coons 60 opossums. This year weve got 36 coons and 35 opossum.
Good job
Excellent video!!!! Great information!
Your right about there being too many raccoons, I see a lot of raccoons on my trail cameras. I need to start trapping raccoons to boost my Turkey numbers.
Great video Grant thanks for the numbers here in EC Missouri no one traps anymore with more homes in our rural areas everyone has their backyard pets, so we trap as much as we can trying to thin out our predators, love your videos
Your spot on, we need to do our part and control the predator populations.
Absolutely on point brother! Ima also a trapper and turky hunter in south ms.
Removin the predators is where its at! The proof is in the pudding 😊
I have 75 acres. I was catching approximately 25 predators per year just by my cabin alone. Four years of not one photo of a poult. Last year I added more traps and caught 53 predators. This year I am already up to 37. I have a couple hens hanging around that are probably on nests. Hoping for my first poult photo. I just don't know where these coon and opossum keep coming from. They seem to call in reinforcements when I kill more. The state DNR's need to open predator trapping season all year long before there is nothing left.
We have taken roughly 75 off 60 acres the last few years and it’s paying off. More Gobbles, songbirds, and whipoorwhills!
Nice work!
Wabbits and squirrels thank
you as well
Awesome information Mr Woods! I love these types of episodes.
Thanks for sharing your videos and keep them coming please.
That's Great I hunted last year in Missouri and one of the local farmers said nobody is trapping anymore and the turkey population is really down where we get one opening day for 20+ years 1:57
Love the videos. Keep up the good work
Great info ,Thank you for your time
Excellent video, thanks Grant! 😊
Thank sir, great video
I could not agree more.
Great information! Definitely need to spend more time and effort trapping. The years I do it we're very successful. The years we don't, well we didn't really make any difference from the good years. Persistence I think is very important with trapping.
Keep the great information coming!
I have flat hammered coons and possums on my Georgia farm. Hard to find a coon these days.
This only makes sense. Back when I was a kid my grandpa and guys of that generation killed coons and possums for money AND food. They killed every hawk that could catch a chicken they depended on. We didn’t have wild hogs, armadillos, and fire ants. But, we had a ton of quail AND turkeys. Now we have no quail and few turkeys. I know the habitat blah blah, but predators are the lowest hole in the bucket!
Integrating common sense protocols goes a long way in wild game management! Great video. Thanks Grant.
Great info
Here in Iowa we can trap "nuisance" species year round starting June 1
Very Good Video!
I have trapped 20 racoons on 40 acres this year. I still have racoons almost every night on my Moultrie cameras. Just over-run with racoons. I am not sure how any nest creatures survive.
I agree - game and nongame critters. It's very tough for ground or low nesting birds.
Racoon target very effectively turtles nests too.
Yes they do!
Predators, Predators and more predators need removed!
Thanks Grant, I’m all about removing coons and cats. We have a small turkey population around my neighborhood but I’m excited to see what happens to the population after removing a lot of furry critters over the next years.
Im a long time fan you guys are amazing in ur craft . Dont worry about the haters the lords the only one you need worry about
Thanks!
Turkey numbers in the State of Missouri are way down, nest predators are way up, not so on the GrowingDeer tv proving grounds, nest predators numbers are down but not about to go extinct , Turkey and poults are way up on the GrowingDeer tv proving grounds "The proof is in the pudding." 👍👏👏 -William Liggett
Stopped coon hunting with a dog right around 2013-14. Pelt prices went way down and we all went off to college. Never went back to it… I want to get traps just to help. I wish the pelt market would go back up
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That tracks close! What’s the R^2 on that correlation for the nerds in the group?
I don't recall the R^2 but it sure looks good!
Can you show techniques how to trap feral cats?
Feral cats can be a big problem for game and non game species. They can be captured by using the cage traps and cat food.
160's and 220's are effective
for feral felines ( so I am told)
Here in Georgia, coons are a problem, but wild hogs are more destructive
One thing for sure is a dead coon wont nomatter how people think or see it he wont eat another egg now if people would go to work on hawks and owls like all the older farmers did you would see change for sure heck there is places its hard to find fox squirrel and rabbits use to be alot of em and everyone hunted em
What exactly would someone do with a raccoon pelt?
I've had two blankets made. They are beautiful!
They're worthless here.
They take up residence along
the back fence
Temptations Cat food drizzled with honey and sardine oil catches 'em all 👍🏼
My Wifes Dog... 😅🤣😂
It's a real shame we can't trap in the spring.we could make a real fast impact this time of year.
I disagree. Most modern managers are well versed online & spend a lot of time on here researching and hearing other points of view. The old timer thats been doing is probably among the generation that thought autumn olive and sericea lespedeza were good quail habitat.
I assume you are calling me an "Old Timer". Thanks! That means I have much experience. If you watch my show at all you, know I do a lot of habitat work and teach how to invasive and exotic species. The data is clear on predators being the primary cause of wild turkey decline. Paper after paper cites this - even by authors that promote habitat quality. By improving the habitat and reducing predators, turkey populations often increase. By the way, I am old enough to have a Ph.D. in wildlife and forestry.
You've been trapping in that area for over a decade and it doesn't appear that You've dropped "predator" numbers at all
Monster - I trapped my other property for many years. This is the first year I trapped the Proving Grounds 2 intensely. The properties do share a boundary. Unlike deer, predators are territorial. When predators are removed, others usually move in. However, they don't move in overnight. Hence, removing nest predators just before and during nesting and brooding season does reduce the predators in that area. I wish Missouri's trapping season lasted through the turkey nesting season.