I heard a theory today from a game warden that made me think some research my be need to put into the matter.
Has the over abundance of year round or even 4-6 months of corn being fed to deer in much of GA caused an over population of Coons? Thus has that contributed to the decline in the turkey population?
Have we a created artificial food sources that created an over population of Raccoons? That is a definite yes. Over the last several yrs I’ve definitely seen an increase in the coon population on game cameras. It used to be 1-2 a night now it’s 10-15.
With that being said, what are these animals going to eat when we quit feeding them at the end of deer season? The GW has a very compelling argument. This will also factor into declining populations into local wood duck,song birds, quail (not many left anyway) and rabbit density.
Most folks will blame it on yotes, which was my response to the GW. He responded by asking me when the last time I saw turkey feathers in yote scat? Me personally, I’ve never seen turkey feathers in yote scat. I am not against baiting deer. I put corn out through out deer season. However, as sportsmen we may need to look into this. We may be seriously damaging one species in pursuit of another.
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Has the over abundance of year round or even 4-6 months of corn being fed to deer in much of GA caused an over population of Coons? Thus has that contributed to the decline in the turkey population?
Have we a created artificial food sources that created an over population of Raccoons? That is a definite yes. Over the last several yrs I’ve definitely seen an increase in the coon population on game cameras. It used to be 1-2 a night now it’s 10-15.
With that being said, what are these animals going to eat when we quit feeding them at the end of deer season? The GW has a very compelling argument. This will also factor into declining populations into local wood duck,song birds, quail (not many left anyway) and rabbit density.
Most folks will blame it on yotes, which was my response to the GW. He responded by asking me when the last time I saw turkey feathers in yote scat? Me personally, I’ve never seen turkey feathers in yote scat. I am not against baiting deer. I put corn out through out deer season. However, as sportsmen we may need to look into this. We may be seriously damaging one species in pursuit of another.
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