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They had to Try and bring in the fucking turkeys.....
Ever since the pheasant population has tanked.
Turkeys will kill anything they feel is a threat.
Call bullshit if you will,I have hunted all my life and never saw the population
go down like it did till "wild turkeys" made a huge comeback.
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I'll call bullshit on this. The decline in Pheasant population has very little to do with Turkeys, at least the feathered kind. The Pheasant population fell when the Government propped up the bullshit Ethanol production. The cover ground, habitat for Pheasant, was put into production for Subsidized corn growing and destroyed the population. Ethanol is as big a scam as Global Warming. It only served to push corn prices to inflated values and destroyed the environment rather than helped it.
As for Turkeys killing anything that is a threat, I doubt that too. I've seen flocks of Turkeys, Pheasants, and Hungarian Partridge feeding together in the same fields of picked corn. Research out of Wisconsin has proven that wild Turkeys can survive on very little and therefore do not become aggressive toward upland birds. The Wild Turkey population has been very high far longer than the Pheasant population has been declining.
It's loss of habitat, nothing else. Blame your neighbor Farmers greed, and the Governments stupidity for promoting a Energy source that is far more damaging than it is helpful.There are Ethanol plants built on areas that were Sloughs full of Pheasant and Huns 20 years ago. There are no fence rows left.The marginal corn ground has been put to the plow and ruined the habitat for Pheasant.Turkeys will roost in damn near anything, Pheasant are more selective and need water more often.
If I were as heavily subsidized as most farmers are, I would be pretty well off, like they are. But, the Government pays them to say they have a job and work hard, I have a job and work hard, wheres my subsidy? The Government should pay for my fuel to go to work, give me low/no interest loans and support me too. Sorry, I hate "Agricultural Welfare".