Well with tiling, burning wetlands, mowing ditches, creating fescue monoculture, hedgerows gone. pheasants are passay, quail to much bother. We need a new bird. Able to get along on bare soil, or mature forest, eats only wheat contaminated by ergot, or moldy corn, impervious to weather, able to ingest pesticides and herbicides like vitamins, reproduce rapidly in shallow trenches in a bare field. Bonus points are if they will lay quitely for a point, are white meat, and covey, with the size of a pheasant. If we give a grant, maybe the Land Grant Universities will step up, with the help of Monsanto, who can patent them, and produce this beast. We genetically engineered dolly the sheep! Any ideas?
Wanted....a new and different gamebird
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pointshoot
New member
california quail,supposed to be exceptionally resilient and fast producing,musti says the "tame",qh says they're the greatest,talk amongst your selves :thumbsup:
UGUIDE
Active member
O&N, if we can figure out a way to return value to the shareholders we can get R dun no problem! All kinds of funding available.
mustistuff
Banned
other bird
might try meadow larks, they seem to live about everywhere, flush pretty well, don't fly really far and likely taste pretty good. my dad used to shoot them when he was a kid sometime around 1910 or so. a neighbor used to buy them from him and fry em' up, didn't seem to hurt the population any. one problem with it is you would have to un-train your dog cause after years of catching hell for pointing them you would have to convince them now it was ok. just another thought going nowhere but then can't go hunting and i don't bowl and turkey is a month or so away. have shot a turkey over point years ago, really surprised the dogs when they went to retrieve it.
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might try meadow larks, they seem to live about everywhere, flush pretty well, don't fly really far and likely taste pretty good. my dad used to shoot them when he was a kid sometime around 1910 or so. a neighbor used to buy them from him and fry em' up, didn't seem to hurt the population any. one problem with it is you would have to un-train your dog cause after years of catching hell for pointing them you would have to convince them now it was ok. just another thought going nowhere but then can't go hunting and i don't bowl and turkey is a month or so away. have shot a turkey over point years ago, really surprised the dogs when they went to retrieve it.
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mnmthunting
Banned
Wouldn't it be nice to have a good eating game bird as tough and as plentiful as the common crow. :thumbsup:
We have tons of crows spend the entire Winter up here. Cold doesn't seem to faze them and crows have not trouble finding food and thrive on most anything.:cheers:
We have tons of crows spend the entire Winter up here. Cold doesn't seem to faze them and crows have not trouble finding food and thrive on most anything.:cheers:
I bet I see 10,000 pheasants for every crow I see. I can't remember the last time I saw one. As to the next bird we have the clay pigeon.
quail hound
Moderator
Even california quail need a little habitat. Far less than pheasants or bobs but still need a home base and a good shrub to roost off the ground. I think feral game chickens would fill the bill nicely but the roosters may want to fight instead of flush most times.:cheers:
mnmthunting
Banned
captaincoot
Banned
Seems to be plenty of hawks to shoot
We need to go old school poison livestock so we kill all the raptors and furry things Thats how you raise the pheasant duck and deer elk populations:thumbsup:
We need to go old school poison livestock so we kill all the raptors and furry things Thats how you raise the pheasant duck and deer elk populations:thumbsup:
Toad
Active member
Turkeys, problem solved. Sometimes the answer is so obvious you miss it right under your nose.
Apparently everything we are doing wrong in managing the native prairie is just making it better for turkeys. Put a graph of the turkey population over the last 50 years against the bobwhite quail population over the last 50 years.
They are easier to hunt too. Just sit still on the edge of the woods and make turkey sounds. They come to you, no dog necessary. They benefit Wildlife & Parks too, because they can sell individual tags for each bird instead of a season-long permit.
Well, that was an easy fix. Ya got any other brain busters, O&N?:cheers:
Apparently everything we are doing wrong in managing the native prairie is just making it better for turkeys. Put a graph of the turkey population over the last 50 years against the bobwhite quail population over the last 50 years.
They are easier to hunt too. Just sit still on the edge of the woods and make turkey sounds. They come to you, no dog necessary. They benefit Wildlife & Parks too, because they can sell individual tags for each bird instead of a season-long permit.
Well, that was an easy fix. Ya got any other brain busters, O&N?:cheers:
There right out side my door too! Passed 30 down the block today, and a few more about a mile away.
Has anyone ever tried a turkey and pheasant cross breeding !?
mustistuff
Banned
need game bird
for got to mention in my post on meadow larks, we could call the calif. pasture quail, there ya have it
cheers
for got to mention in my post on meadow larks, we could call the calif. pasture quail, there ya have it
cheers
mnmthunting
Banned
Just a decade or so ago it was such a novelty to hunt turkeys in MT and WY.
Now I have a 100 coming into the cattle feeding area daily. They are wild and take off flying over the trees when I drive into the yard. Kinda fun.
Now I have a 100 coming into the cattle feeding area daily. They are wild and take off flying over the trees when I drive into the yard. Kinda fun.