Baiting sites not good for turkeys?

[Gaswamp]

saw this on facebook...Food for thought

 

[JustUs4All]

Preditors like to hunt where prey congregates. Move the prey and you will move the preditors.

Similarly but on a side note, rattle snakes like those spots for the mice they attract.

 

[Nicodemus]

Same reason predators hunt water holes.

 

[NCHillbilly]

Bobcats been killing turkeys since time immemorial. It's what they do, and part of why turkeys exist to begin with is to feed bobcats and other predators, not just for humans to hunt.

 

[XIronheadX]

Saw this one yesterday. 1 hen 14 eggs with some poults hatched. Gone in an instant.

 

[Sautee Ridgerunner]

The aflatoxins are likely the bigger issue

 

[turkeykirk]

Hard for a turkey to see a predator with it’s head in the feeder.

 

[six]

I’d rather see that than see one catch a load of lead or TSS at a baiting site.

 

[buckpasser]

Last week...and they’re not in season right now...

 

[KentuckyHeadhunter]

Baiting will always change the equation nature has intended. Like Nicodemus said...there's a reason predators hunt water holes.

 

[antharper]

Saw this one yesterday. 1 hen 14 eggs with some poults hatched. Gone in an instant.

Is that a coyote ?

 

[DRBugman85]

Last week...and they’re not in season right now...

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BOOM dead cat...

 

[NCHillbilly]

Last week...and they’re not in season right now...

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He looks like he wants you to pet him and snuggle with him and play with a yarn ball......

 

[XIronheadX]

Is that a coyote ?

Yep, coyote. Wiped it all out. Saw another capture this morning of a bobcat carrying a fawn across a log crossing on a big creek.

 

[buckpasser]

Saw this one yesterday. 1 hen 14 eggs with some poults hatched. Gone in an instant.

The scientists say they’re not a problem. You must be mistaken. Afterall, they’ve dug around in some coyote crap and there was no sign of turkey meat.