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<blockquote data-quote="Jogeephus" data-source="post: 1200320" data-attributes="member: 4362"><p>CB, you are missing my point. Your blaming the timber companies for what they do on their land is like some crack head blaming you for him not having a pot to pee in. I understand what the ecological deserts are. These big corn field, or cotton fields or pine pulpwood plantations but that has nothing to do with your land and that is all you can control and if you give the birds the habitat they need you will have quail on your property. A covey doesn't need but 40 acres so if you don't have quail on your land its because of what you are doing or neglecting to do and it has little to nothing to do with your neighbors. </p><p></p><p>Take the photo you posted, it shows a pasture I assume you mowed. Looks good for cattle but you really mucked it up for quail. You mowed the whole thing and now there is no cover, no diversity so where is the bird to hide when it goes bugging. Fence row is clean so it can't hide there. Mowing a third of it in three separate mowings would have benefitted the quail. Given them cover they could use while bugging. Its little things like that that make a huge difference. And what do you do when you get locusts or army worms. Spray? 85% of what the quail eats during summer is bugs so you may have just poisoned your birds if you sprayed the wrong stuff. All this stuff intermingles and unfortunately its not readily noticeable. </p><p></p><p>What would help you to see what I'm talking about is to ask Santa to get you the book The Bobwhite Quail: Its Habits, Preservation and Increase by Herbert Stoddard. Its dated but still sound information. It will help you look at the land in a different light and it will definitely make you adjust your everyday work on the property and you will begin to see improvements but it takes a conscious effort on your part.</p><p></p><p>The good thing is quail and turkey benefit from cattle being on the land as long as you have diversity in the pastures and run the cattle in the woods some. I have neighbors who have little to no quail or turkey on their property but I have plenty. I keep saying its these little things you do .... and it is.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jogeephus, post: 1200320, member: 4362"] CB, you are missing my point. Your blaming the timber companies for what they do on their land is like some crack head blaming you for him not having a pot to pee in. I understand what the ecological deserts are. These big corn field, or cotton fields or pine pulpwood plantations but that has nothing to do with your land and that is all you can control and if you give the birds the habitat they need you will have quail on your property. A covey doesn't need but 40 acres so if you don't have quail on your land its because of what you are doing or neglecting to do and it has little to nothing to do with your neighbors. Take the photo you posted, it shows a pasture I assume you mowed. Looks good for cattle but you really mucked it up for quail. You mowed the whole thing and now there is no cover, no diversity so where is the bird to hide when it goes bugging. Fence row is clean so it can't hide there. Mowing a third of it in three separate mowings would have benefitted the quail. Given them cover they could use while bugging. Its little things like that that make a huge difference. And what do you do when you get locusts or army worms. Spray? 85% of what the quail eats during summer is bugs so you may have just poisoned your birds if you sprayed the wrong stuff. All this stuff intermingles and unfortunately its not readily noticeable. What would help you to see what I'm talking about is to ask Santa to get you the book The Bobwhite Quail: Its Habits, Preservation and Increase by Herbert Stoddard. Its dated but still sound information. It will help you look at the land in a different light and it will definitely make you adjust your everyday work on the property and you will begin to see improvements but it takes a conscious effort on your part. The good thing is quail and turkey benefit from cattle being on the land as long as you have diversity in the pastures and run the cattle in the woods some. I have neighbors who have little to no quail or turkey on their property but I have plenty. I keep saying its these little things you do .... and it is. [/QUOTE]
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