Sounds like some big research about to begin on corn and turkeys.......

No no, no. We need to study more about how and when and how many Spring gobblers a poor old redneck shoots - how that will eventually decimate the population - and continue to monkey with limits and seasons. Eventually, at some point, eventually - we will all be forced to understand.

i liked feeding mine oats when i had them to feed . lol

Had a game warden in our loop of friends years ago tell us that feeding turkey was a bad thing. His explanation was that having them come to the location and feed/poop would cause other birds to feed/poop and then lead to excessive disease exposure. Then turkeys would die…. I never thought anything about it bc I never fed/feed them.

If that’s his thought process, I Wonder what his opinion on chicken litter as fertilizer would be.

Makes sense. Nothing in the woods poops around a food source, natural or put there by man. Insert sarcasm toward the GW. lol.

If you havent watched the video the research they will be doing is on how corn feeders effect the coon populations

I could save them a lot of time if they just ask

You need to be able to show proof or its just an assumption.....

A population increase is different than seeing more in one area at a food source.

What was deal about the funding in Florida??.....How is that different than the way studies are funded now?....I dont really know how any of that works.

Cnc , studies for the most part proves nothing . You know that. Lol

I thought the same.. we spread a lot of it and have a nice population increase this season… but most of what we spread has been through a heat but I know since antibiotics have been taken out, it has to be worse than years past..

If the question is "What does a corn feeder do to the local racoon population?", all they need to do is go to one of their old publications. If you look on page 130 of their publication "Biology and Management of the Whitetailed Deer in Alabama", from the OA website, you will see a trough-style feeder with 25+ racoons piled in and around it. I have pictures of my last working feeder being torn up from racoons hanging off of the spinner, breaking it off of the hopper.

Their legislature is allotting a certain amount every year to their turkey research. Vs AL begging the department to fund a project.... which they don't

Perfect illustration as to why we need solid research!

Gobbler,,, I doubt after they spend 2 or 3 years of doing this they find out more than "you" already know . We'll see .

I predict when the findings of this study come out it will be met with a lot of scrutiny and criticism......

Of course it will , some will say see , told you so . Others will ifing it to death .


One thing I wanna know will the study be on year round feeding or just during deer season

Said they were testing both