Time to take action

rrlund · May 18, 2011

I just sent a $100 check and an application to the Fish and Wildlife Service to take out some of those miserable sandhill cranes. I called and asked the guy about a refund if I'm denied,but he said it's never come up before,they have never denied anybody.
Time to get back at nature!

Bigdaddy4430 · May 18, 2011

Whats wrong with the cranes?

Nebraska Cowman · May 18, 2011

The old tymers used to eat them. In the dirty 30s meat was meat.

KIP in MX · May 18, 2011

You should see what they can do to a freshly planted oat or barley field.

MSJfromMN · May 18, 2011

MN has a season on them in the northwest part of the state. Just started last year I believe.

RayP(MI) · May 18, 2011

Never used to have them around here. Now they"re fairly common. There"s a bunch that nest on the place west of me. Sure make a racket at times. Seeded my oats a little over a week ago, and few days later, broadcast fertilizer on the field. There were large bird footprints all over the field... Don"t think they were turkey - too big. Cranes? Probably.

We have several critters that weren"t common here when I was a kid: Porcupines, sandhill cranes, turkeys, coyotes, cougars, come to mind. Each one brings it"s own changes to the ecology of the area.

rrlund · May 18, 2011

They'll RAVAGE a corn field. They'll get their beaks right down horizontal in the seed furrow and take the seed right out of the ground. If not that they'll pull the small plants (up to 6 inches) out and eat what's left of the seed. At least with geese and turkeys,they leave the seed so there's the CHANCE that it'll keep growing.

showcrop · May 18, 2011

(quoted from post at 09:54:03 05/18/11) They'll RAVAGE a corn field. They'll get their beaks right down horizontal in the seed furrow and take the seed right out of the ground. If not that they'll pull the small plants (up to 6 inches) out and eat what's left of the seed. At least with geese and turkeys,they leave the seed so there's the CHANCE that it'll keep growing.

y cousin treats a little of his seed with fuel. It still comes up just fine, but it takes a way some of the birds' appetite. He does a little when he has just some corners or middle left to do.

Jahaze · May 18, 2011

They taste great rrlund, I would love to come help you shoot them, but I don't think the fwd will let you keep them. I'm less than an hour away.

tjdub · May 18, 2011

We have breeding pairs of sandhill cranes here in SE MN. They spend a lot of time in the freshly planted corn and oats fields, but never do any damage (because it's only 2-4 birds over a wide range). I suppose during their migrations they do some damage in a large flock, but they're certainly not considered pests up here though.

KIP in MX · May 18, 2011

We lived several miles from Bitterlakes Wildlife Refuge where thousands would stay during migration. We'd get hundreds at a time and they would ravage a freshly seeded oat or barley field. Feds would come out and install acetylene cannons around fields, but the birds got used to that. What they didn't get used to was getting shot. Funny thing is, during crane season, if you could find one, it was nearly always out of shotgun range.
My brother cooked one once and stunk up the whole house. The dog wouldn't even eat that vile bird!

rrlund · May 18, 2011

Put in for your own permit if you want to blast a few. There's a $100 processing fee for the first year,but when my wife called to see if it was refundable if we were denied,the guy said it had never been an issue,they had never turned anybody down.

GeneMO · May 18, 2011

In Mo. the Dept. of Conservation will issue landowners a free destroy permit if something is causing you damage. No season or rules, just kill em any way possible.

Gene

rrlund · May 18, 2011

Those cranes are federally protected though. I had to go through US Fish and Wildlife Service.

big fred · May 18, 2011

Seems like that law'd be awful tough on politicians...

Plumcrazy · May 19, 2011

They go right down the corn rows, and dig up the seed. The treatment on the seed dosen't seem to bother them. I use the SSS system. Shoot, shovel, shut up.

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