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That's great news, congratulations!!

Love the picture. It is bitter sweet whenever we finally kill a rooster the has given us so much fun.

Well said huntsem. Without a total landscape plan, hunting, fishing and all wildlife will just keep declining. The farming practice used today is not sustainable and bad for us all in providing poor water quality and no places left for any thing left to live. Feel bad for my grand kids.:(

If we did not make wild animals into pets we would not have the dogs we have today. Just something to think about.

Done. But something needs to be done to get acceptance rates up on the applications.

Look great! I bet the birds love it.

I skin my birds and then take game shears and cut up the back bone and open them up and clean them out. Works very well and can save all the bird. I feel not using all you can is wasteful and would be like picking up only every other bird you kill.

Nice videos, even if they are a little old the information is still sound. This is what I was saying in a thread awhile back about leaving weeds grow in wheat stubble, but they say it better. A easy way to help wildlife without cost and work! A win win in my book.:10sign:

Need someone to help you eat them

I think some kinds of bird hunting is over for the most part in my part of the country. Quail have been gone since 1978 and know hope of a return, at least in my lifetime. Pheasants are all but gone. They could make a return if farming changed but I will not hold my breath. Cover being destroyed...

M R BIRD, just would like to say I appreciate all your hard work and investments in trying to give this great bird a chance to increase its numbers. Wish more who have the resources would do the same before its to late. It must be very rewarding when you see your efforts paying off.

Good post Prairie Drifter. I guess I may a little greedy and want it all:) The whole pie not just part of it. I was thinking if I was doing habitat work on one or two hundred acres I would have room for a food plot too. All things need food to survive that is big reason why many birds and...

Oldandnew, I agree with most of what you say. The CRP midrange management is what many do not do and the cover grows too old and unproductive. I do feel however that food plots close to cover is beneficial to the birds. It will lesson the stress on the hens if they can get food easily in bad...

I would be interested in knowing how many quail you have now and how many in a year or two after your habitat changes. I personally would have a hard time taking out the thick areas scattered across the fields. Seems to me this is a good way to move around the field and still have escape cover...

Just would like to know why you want to remove them? The picture of the dogs on point says to me that the quail must like them. I would think they would provide good shade on hot days and good winter cover when it snows. Also good cover from hawks. They look spaced out about right to hunt and...