Feather and Tin Tossers aren't the only ones with a count down ....
Once this short spring goose season passes many of us are counting the days to spring turkey season.
Hopefully the fairly light winter has helped the flocks flourish....
Although the turkey population in Northern NY is doing better than elsewhere in the state, overall the turkey population is down significantly. To remedy this the DEC has done surveys and made some minor reg changes. They altered the fall season beginning 2015 in response to the shortage of birds. They are monitoring the affect of that change over a 4 year period...
http://ift.tt/2mQOQye
They hope to strike a balance between keeping hunters happy and helping to improve the flocks.... but, they cannot control most of the causes of population decline… winter, spring rain, predation…
What if they did the one obvious thing that is guaranteed to improve the flocks? Halting the hen harvest would immediately improve the population. A hen will lay 10 to 12 eggs per year. For each hen that is allowed to survive the fall season an additional 3 to 4 poults, some of them hens, may live to reproduce. Elimination of the hen harvest could improve the statewide population by 2,000 birds in the first year alone! The improvement in the flock increases with each year that we allow the hen population to grow. Why wouldn’t we want to do that?
So here's a question… in the interest of helping the turkey population recover, would you support eliminating the harvest of hens?
Once this short spring goose season passes many of us are counting the days to spring turkey season.
Hopefully the fairly light winter has helped the flocks flourish....
Although the turkey population in Northern NY is doing better than elsewhere in the state, overall the turkey population is down significantly. To remedy this the DEC has done surveys and made some minor reg changes. They altered the fall season beginning 2015 in response to the shortage of birds. They are monitoring the affect of that change over a 4 year period...
http://ift.tt/2mQOQye
They hope to strike a balance between keeping hunters happy and helping to improve the flocks.... but, they cannot control most of the causes of population decline… winter, spring rain, predation…
What if they did the one obvious thing that is guaranteed to improve the flocks? Halting the hen harvest would immediately improve the population. A hen will lay 10 to 12 eggs per year. For each hen that is allowed to survive the fall season an additional 3 to 4 poults, some of them hens, may live to reproduce. Elimination of the hen harvest could improve the statewide population by 2,000 birds in the first year alone! The improvement in the flock increases with each year that we allow the hen population to grow. Why wouldn’t we want to do that?
So here's a question… in the interest of helping the turkey population recover, would you support eliminating the harvest of hens?
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