Guesser Prairie Chicken

M. R. Byrd

M. R. Byrd

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Interesting read. I have hunted PC all over Kansas and never ran into a cross. Thanks for sharing OKIE NEEDING SOME RAIN BAD.
 
I have hunted all over KS, and never ran into a PC cross. Thanks for sharing...Lets all pray for some needed rain, OK is burning up this year.
 
My bust, updated my profile and lost veiw of the first post.
 
I have heard for 45 years that there is a natural cross breeding of Greater and Lesser Prairie Chickens where they overlap. I have heard the same about Sharptails and Greater Prairie Chickens, this may be legend, and in either case I believe they would have predominant characteristics of one or the other, the sole determining factor being DNA, though size might lend a clue. As far as crossbreeding resulting in a "super chicken", able to adapt to a changing landscape, I am not hopeful at all. The Greater chicken has very specific requirements, and you are crossing it on the all time champ of non- adaptation in the personification of the Lesser. Any research which gains knowledge of these marvelous birds and publicizes their situation, might help in the struggle to save them.
 
Prairie Chickens seem to be non-existent down in sek. Cherokee county had a few good flocks left back in the early 80's. We used monitor their flight patterns and then hunt them where we thought they would fly. They are gone now, at least from that county.

We are seeing quite a few out here now. In Decatur county, we avoided most of the drought, so hopefully there will be nice hatch this year. No grasshoppers yet, and I really like to see them for the young pheasant chicks.
 
Still a few hanging on around Hepler, Brazilton, and North and West of Farlington, in those big rocky native pastures. I remember literally thousands as a kid in the 60's in that area. It was a regular pastime on Sunday afternoon for the farmers to get together and pass shoot the evening flight. At the same time you could hardly walk down a county road 200 yards without kicking up quail. If what we have now is progress somebody goofed!
 
JMc said:
WOW...the Byrdman throwing out the OU references to an Okie! Pretty darn quick witted from an old dirt farmer from KS...:D.
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For your information, I happen to be an honorly Okie, so declared by the Honorable Dewey Bartlett. Also, my mother was born in 1915 in the Red Rock Canyon, but left Oklahoma at the age of four in a covered wagon and moved to Medicine Lodge, Kansas.

Now, if I understand correctly, Okie is an official ethnic group and is listed as such on the census forms.

Anyway, that is about all I have to say on the subject.

:):):)
 
The wifey is an OU grad and taught at OU for a few years...and we are season ticket holders...I hold a teaching certificate in OK, and played FB at OPSU so I guess I too am an honorary Okie. So back at ya...:)
 
JMc said:
The wifey is an OU grad and taught at OU for a few years...and we are season ticket holders...I hold a teaching certificate in OK, and played FB at OPSU so I guess I too am an honorary Okie. So back at ya...:)
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Where is OU. IM FROM OUT SIDE BOISE IDAHO IT MUST BE CLOSE THEY PLAY BOISE STATE IN FOOTBALL :cheers:
 
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