NICE... bird flu in Lincoln county

[megalomaniac]

Found in Giles county now

looks like that is totally different strain, one that is much less virulent. Birds can certainly die from it, but not at the same rate as the high path strains.

 

[FTG-05]

Giles county now has the bird flu

Link to news report?

 

[deerchaser007]

Found in Giles county now

looks like that is totally different strain, one that is much less virulent. Birds can certainly die from it, but not at the same rate as the high path strains.

Local news didn't specify Thurs afternoon when I seen on 5 o'clock report, they just said another case of of bird flu found in Giles county. According to Dept of Agriculture, it is a differ strain. Sorry about that

 

[FARMTOFIELD]

Wonder if this is the cause of the turkey population decline in the past few years down there and it just made its way back to the chicken houses?

As far as the study goes, as of last week, 5 turkeys have died already and all from coyotes. I think predators are going to be one of the biggest contributing factors

From my limited experience, the coyote population seemed to have exploded when they were fertilizing with chicken litter. I hunt my FIL's farm in Southern Lawrence County when we are there over the holidays and odd weekends. He was one of the farmer's who fertilized with chicken litter. Coyotes used to run around his fields like little vacuums eating old chicken parts in the litter. The litter was full of dead chicken parts and was a smorgasbord for predators. I don't remember ever not seeing coyotes while on in a stand when he was fertilizing with chicken litter. It wasnt uncommon to kill 3-5 a day. One year, I killed 17 coyotes between Christmas and New Years without calling a single one in.

Since he quit using chicken litter, the coyote population has dropped dramatically. We have also started seeing a couple turkeys every now and again.

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[Buzzard Breath]

Rockhound, PM sent. I think.

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[callemquacktn]

Wonder if this is the cause of the turkey population decline in the past few years down there and it just made its way back to the chicken houses?

As far as the study goes, as of last week, 5 turkeys have died already and all from coyotes. I think predators are going to be one of the biggest contributing factors

WOW, that flies in the face of conventional wisdom from the 80's and 90's which supposed that predation of adult birds was negligible. 5 birds out of one site? Or 5 birds out of the 220 total birds they wanted to tag?

It looks like predators may end up being the primary reason TN's turkey population cannot expand further, and may be the reason it is in decline....

Out of all sites. I haven't heard a update on if there is anymore turkey deaths in the last week.

 

[Andy S.]

^^^^Keep us updated on what you find out, I really enjoy reading them. I wonder if the fact that they (turkeys) have been coming to a bait site (i.e. CORN) repeatedly for weeks, has anything to do with making them more prone to predation. I know if I were a coyote or bobcat, I would hunker down in the immediate area and pick the low hanging fruit that can't stay away from the bait. Just a thought.....

 

[callemquacktn]

^^^^Keep us updated on what you find out, I really enjoy reading them. I wonder if the fact that they (turkeys) have been coming to a bait site (i.e. CORN) repeatedly for weeks, has anything to do with making them more prone to predation. I know if I were a coyote or bobcat, I would hunker down in the immediate area and pick the low hanging fruit that can't stay away from the bait. Just a thought.....

I'm not sure of the location of all the turkeys but the first one to die was a quarter of a mile away from the bait site.