RoosterTim
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Anybody heard anything about populations around Marysville after the blizzards this winter?
Birds around Marysville
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kansasbrittany
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Don't have much information on the Marysville area yet so I can't help you. The pheasants are pretty hearty though so they should've done ok. I don't have near as much faith in the quail population in the NE quadrant of our fine state.
Don't have much information on the Marysville area yet so I can't help you. The pheasants are pretty hearty though so they should've done ok. I don't have near as much faith in the quail population in the NE quadrant of our fine state.
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I have a farmer friend in the Seneca area, about 30 miles east of Maryville, he's been seeing some small quail in brood groups, about 4-5 weeks old, while out spraying. This area has been flat plastered with rain too! Gives me some hope, that a few broods hatched and made it so far. A little co-operation from the weather, maybe the hens who lost their broods, or nests, might bring off a late hatch. Last year around Pawnee City, Nebraska, I got up two different coveys of what we used to call "peepers", little birds about 8-12 weeks old hatched in September. Northeastern Kansas, western Missouri, southeast Nebraska, all way too wet! Need that traditional dry August, September, to spark a renesting push. P.S. for what it's worth, lots of farmers took part in the program which allows for them to leave fields fallow or in cover crops, ( read weedy, annual growth), due to the fields being to wet to plant, or having been lost to flooding. If the quail do find a way to bring off a hatch, we might get lucky, lots of fallow weedy fields to raise broods in. Not hearing much about NEK pheasants.
I have a farmer friend in the Seneca area, about 30 miles east of Maryville, he's been seeing some small quail in brood groups, about 4-5 weeks old, while out spraying. This area has been flat plastered with rain too! Gives me some hope, that a few broods hatched and made it so far. A little co-operation from the weather, maybe the hens who lost their broods, or nests, might bring off a late hatch. Last year around Pawnee City, Nebraska, I got up two different coveys of what we used to call "peepers", little birds about 8-12 weeks old hatched in September. Northeastern Kansas, western Missouri, southeast Nebraska, all way too wet! Need that traditional dry August, September, to spark a renesting push. P.S. for what it's worth, lots of farmers took part in the program which allows for them to leave fields fallow or in cover crops, ( read weedy, annual growth), due to the fields being to wet to plant, or having been lost to flooding. If the quail do find a way to bring off a hatch, we might get lucky, lots of fallow weedy fields to raise broods in. Not hearing much about NEK pheasants.
kansasbrittany
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oldandnew,
I like the sound of your comments. Thanks for sharing!
I like the sound of your comments. Thanks for sharing!
Smoothbore
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I have two farmer friends that live in that area and both have said the bird numbers are down. One has only seen mature pheasants, and few of those. Two years ago, 26 roosters were killed on one farm, last year 2, and this year no hunting. But the reports I've obtained from around the other parts of state look great. In fact, a farmer friend that I work with has seen more quail in SE Kansas than he seen in several years. I've also have heard a favorable report from the Wakeney area, both pheasants and quail.
Gove County Britts
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Wakeeney into gove county is full of pheasants gove county not so many quail they are there but you still need to look for them Wakeeney has a few numbers of quail and phez should be a good year if mother nature cooparate