So I'm visiting a customer SW Missouri to do a farm inspection. Corn crop a failure, chopped for silage, ( even poor at that), checking out the property, and where the corn failed is a real nice growth of croton, crab grass, gamma grass, and sprouts of bluestem among the stalks. A few steps latter a juvenile quail goes buzzing off, almost immediately followed by several more. down the farm lane had to stop to let a pair of adult quail cross the dirt track. Prior management had this place in permanent fescue pasture, hadn't been a quail around in years. This is a 1000+ acre piece. Shows what nature can do with a little help intentional or not, the landowner had never given it a thought but giddy like a school girl over seeing those quail after having none for so long. Made me giddy as well! Cracks you could loose your dog in from the heat, lots of bare ground, easy to run in, with some clumps of the aforementioned grasses and weeds, ( God forbid!) in the mix, 80's or 160 blocks with hedgerows still there, seems to be a recipe that works in this case. .
Can't beat Mother Nature
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M. R. Byrd
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Happy quail, now that makes me happy!
1pheas4
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"can't beat mother nature". Oldandnew, that's how I felt after watching those videos in my pheasants in Detroit thread.
It amazes me how tough those birds are. Quail too. Give them the bare minimum of food, shelter, and water and they can thrive.
It's Sad how we can't even let them have that (food, shelter, water) in so many places these days.
Great story by the way
It amazes me how tough those birds are. Quail too. Give them the bare minimum of food, shelter, and water and they can thrive.
It's Sad how we can't even let them have that (food, shelter, water) in so many places these days.
Great story by the way