Post by jims on Mar 12, 2007 18:55:13 GMT -5
I was at the family farm over the weekend. I saw a rooster pheasant. I let some go in November 2006 so at least one made it through the heavy snow and cold. Still a nice sight.
It could have been a wild bird, I was bushhogging last year (or the year before) and I mowed right over a hen on the nest. She never got up. I never expected to see that and the grass was too high to really see and very close to the road. It was unfortunate.
I also burn off my tall prairie grass yearly. It really makes for a better stand and helps the wildlife. One year a hen turkey had a nest in the same, she made it but the more than dozen eggs were later eaten by something. She never returned to the nest but of course it was exposed after the burn and I did not have an incubator or banty hen to place the eggs.
It could have been a wild bird, I was bushhogging last year (or the year before) and I mowed right over a hen on the nest. She never got up. I never expected to see that and the grass was too high to really see and very close to the road. It was unfortunate.
I also burn off my tall prairie grass yearly. It really makes for a better stand and helps the wildlife. One year a hen turkey had a nest in the same, she made it but the more than dozen eggs were later eaten by something. She never returned to the nest but of course it was exposed after the burn and I did not have an incubator or banty hen to place the eggs.
