Help needed!!

[G-man]

[mowin]

I'm in.  

[Bucksnbows]

I'd be happy to help for any birds we take outside Cooperstown this May on the two farms.  Anyone know what they are studying with them?  Just curious.   

[dbHunterNY]

i shared this on facebook when i saw it but wonder if you need to be in the syracuse area fairly close to SUNY ESF?

[mowin]

1 hour ago, Bucksnbows said:

I'd be happy to help for any birds we take outside Cooperstown this May on the two farms.  Anyone know what they are studying with them?  Just curious.   

How come you haven't signed up for the turkey contest? 

[Bucksnbows]

1 hour ago, mowin said:

How come you haven't signed up for the turkey contest? 

I’ve never signed up for any of the contests. I often donate towards them, but I never know if I’ll even hunt most seasons. We have more work on paper than we can do this year, but most hangs out there awaiting permits from multiple states. 

[reeltime]

Below is a text I received from the dec earlier in the week. The wild turkeys have been in decline for the last 8 to 10 years, across a lot of states and across multiple species meaning easterns, rios, merriams, and Osceola. There have been many ideas talked about as far as cause.
Certainly bird flu is a factor, predation is a factor, habitat is factor, changes in pesticide in farming seeds. What is being discusses now is that inbreeding could be causing a weekend genetic line in the turkeys thus causing them to be more susceptible to disease. As is well known when we did alot of trap and transfer back in the 70s and 80s the numbers exploded and it was a huge success. But turkeys don't migrate 100s of miles to disperse so the belief is that the blood lines over a 20,30 year period are too close.
They want the upper leg section, so cut the spur off like normal where tou cut the leg off just above the spur and then send in that part which would be between the knee joint and just above the spur. They want the bone marrow to do the DNA analysis.
As far as trying to farm raise birds like the ringnecks,, that was tried in the past and was a complete failure both survival and financially.


Here is the text message



I just got off the phone with Dr. Mike Schummer and it sounds like this research may aid in sorting out the wild turkey population decline.

He indicated that he doesn't need the spur, just a section of scaly leg above or below the spur (the foot, for example). Put it in a ziplock bag, write the county and town of harvest on the bag with a sharpie and store it in your freezer.

You can coordinate with him directly for more details and where to send samples.

Anything you guys can do to get the word out would be greatly appreciated!

[Belo]

the anti's will be out there saying it's cruel to cut off the leg of a turkey and then let it go back into the wild with only 1 leg 

[JohnPlav]

8 minutes ago, Belo said:

the anti's will be out there saying it's cruel to cut off the leg of a turkey and then let it go back into the wild with only 1 leg 

It works with stone crabs... lets try it with turkeys!