Posted on 09/15/2012 4:23:09 AM PDT by mylife
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Hunting has not depreciated quail populations in Texas.
What has wiped them out is fire ants.
Quail nest on the ground and fire ants wipe the chicks out.
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“We will give you a free fire arm with each steel building”
I agree with Billy that trout don’t live in ugly places.
I am more of a fisherman than a hunter.
I swear I have had religious experiences on the Gardner river in Montana and on the Youghioghenny in Pennsylvania
Thats a long standing debate among Texas hunters. I agree the quail get hit hard by fire ants the moment they come out of the shell but we have a couple of other forces working against them with feral hogs being one and change in habitat being another. Here in West TX we don’t have a fire ant problem but we are starting to get a hog problem. another critter that place hell on baby quail is Road Runners, they eat baby quail like popcorn.
Well I have this notion for feral hogs.
Trap em, then clean em out like you kinda would a crawfish.
Put them on corn and peaches for a few weeks, then let the Charcuterie commence.
They are a pest.
Why not make lemonade of dem lemon?
I never would have thought of the road runner as an issue.
I have lived all over the west, in their habitat and the quail populations are strong.
I never really thought about what road runners eat.
I guess I always figured RR’s eat like lizard and such.
But I guess if that was true I would have a ton of them RR’s around here because I have 9 banded geckos out the wazoo.
I know I got no bugs because of them geckos! LOL
I eat a few of them but ya can’t eat them all, their really becoming a problem. 50 to 75 pounders are the best eating the bigger ones end up as coyote and buzzard chow.
Everyone here just makes them into jalapeno/cheddar cheese sausage.
there has to be a better way to prepare them.
Why not feed them for a couple of weeks and then process them?
Make some Hams?
http://www.benwheelertx.com/media-releases/past-media-releases/14-fall-feral-hog-fest.html
Sometimes you just got to drop them and let them rot.
It just seems like a waste, but it beats them laying waste to your property
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