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[sdm111]

I guess I see it both. My property is about maybe an 1/8 mile from a preserve so I see all kinds of wildlife with an over population of wild hogs and nutria. The hogs root up all the hard land killing the trees and the nutria are eating the marsh grass faster than it can grow back making acres and acres of mudflats and the damage is multiplied by the hurricanes churning up all the mud that used to be held in place by the marsh grass. Corp of engineers says louisiana is loosing a football field of marsh every so many minutes. A side by side aerial view of today vs 100 yrs ago is amazing. On the flip side I work in New Orleans every day and the pigeon population is overwhelming as well. Conservation has gotten the alligator off the endangered species list here and we finally have a hunting season on them. But it's due to alligator farms are required to release 17% of their young each year to the wild. Wildlife and fisheries say that's about the percentage of baby alligators that would make it to adulthood in the wild.

 

[roosterhavoc]

Better get to trapping them nutria. Gonna get tough to kill any ducks with no cover.

 

[sdm111]

There's been an open bounty 5.00 a tail paid by the state for at least 10yrs now. In the city the swat teams go out at night and shine them with ar15 22's. Can't trap in the preserve and the coastal marsh is just too vast to get them in check. And their not even from here. There's an island called Avery island ( where the Tabasco hot sauce plant is ) where years ago so guy got nutria from somewhere had them in pens and a hurricane came through blew over the pens and they all got loose and with all the vegetation ( marsh grass ) multiplied like crazy.

 

[sdm111]

A few yes ago lsu agriculture wanted to show the general public how bad they were. They fenced in an area of marsh and later went back and all that was left was the grass inside the fence. From the pic it looked like about 5 acre fenced in area out of about 30 acres of marsh grass.

 

[roosterhavoc]

Yep I read all about it years ago. The last nutria caught in nj was over 30 yrs ago I believe.
Its amazing how destructive they are. Snow geese do the same thing, eat grass way down to the roots. Eat themselves out of house and home.

 

[sdm111]

They good eating too. The ones inland not so much towards the gulf. Kinda like the difference between a woodduck and a merganser. Ain't much u can't eat round here though.

 

[prariechiken]

Awful lot of genetic talk and phenotype blah blah blah blah. Start another thread for all that mess. It's a hobby or lifestyle whatever you want it to be. Anybody can be an expert on the Internet. Besides I find it rather boring. That's just my 2 cents. Then again I'm no expert. I'm also not trying to reinvent the wheel like some.

My wife "fowlafoot" and I started this thread o so long ago. I think the direction is fine... welcome guest poster..

 

[sdm111]

Luckily it's a public not privately owned thread

 

[roosterhavoc]

My wife "fowlafoot" and I started this thread o so long ago.  I think the direction is fine... welcome guest poster..

. If you would pm me your address I will send you some Christmas cookies to show my gratitude for letting me post in your thread.

 

[prariechiken]

Just pointing out that besides the original poster, everyone is a guest to the thread. If unhappy with the thread move on or create one, that is the cool thing about a forum. But jumping on a thread where many have been investing time into it for years and trying to tell people what to do just makes you look .. well, "not so nice" . And your further posts just adds support of that view. Me I could argue and send tells and whatever, but this is a chicken thread on the internet, how intelligent would that make me look.. well I guess others don't care about that huh. Have a nice day friends...