Coyotes?????

[nontypical2002]

I have a question for you all??? We're hunting a farm in Ohio that is ideal turkey country. It's a cattle farm with about 100+cows on the one side of the road and about 75+sheep on the other. When we walked it yesterday we found lots of scratchings and the farmer says there's turkey's there. We heard ONE gobble this morning. That's ONE gobble on 597 acres!!!! The farmer also said the coyotes are bad..took 2 of his sheep last week. my question is...if the dang coyotes are bad will it keep the turkeys from gobbling??? If that combined with the darn things being so stink'n henned up we don't stand a chance do we??? They should at least gobble on the roost shouldn't they even if they are henned up bad??? Thanks for your input...

[RutNBuck]

there are many factors that effects turkeys gobbling
pressure,weather,henned up, and many more...from what i have noticed and heard the same from others this for some reasons seems to be an out of the norm season...birds are not responding to calls even locater calls like normal..
i feel that since we have so many birds (hens) gobblers just dont have to gobble as much..according to the Xperts thats the reason for the gobble is to attract hens,allow her to know where he is so now they just show up in heavy used areas by hens and they find their mate.. but all ~n~ all we are blessed with wonderful hunting options..
i can recall when seasons first opened you made a few hen calls and gobblers would literally run,race to you to beat others out...these days a gobbler can strut in the distance and if the hen dont appear away he goes...
so as season winds down im gonna once again tip my hat to a great season

[WBBP]

IMO, they will usually run or fly in the opposite direction iof a coyote is spotted. A guy told me yesterday that a gobbler he was working recently spotted a coyote-the gobbler immediately flew back up to his roost tree.

Once the coyote was gone for awhile, the gobbler pitched back down and headed the other direction not making a sound.

A barking dog will also make them shut-up, even if it is several hundred yards away.

[nontypical2002]

Thanks guys...it's frustrating knowing the birds have to be there but the don't respond at all. We hunted in KY. and tagged out there and the turkeys did the same thing there too. You'd call to a bird walking in a field and he'd just look at you and continue walking. A buddy was hunting a farm in KY. this weekend where they've heard plenty of birds..just yesterday he had several birds gobbling around him...none would work but at least he heard them. Today, he didn't hear the first bird on that same farm. We hunted a different farm in Ohio yesterday morning and never heard the first gobble. That's the first time we've ever been to this farm and not heard a bird. We may not have worked them before but we at least heard them gobble. I think Ohio is just a couple weeks behind KY. in the "transition" periods. Hopefully the next couple weekends will be better. They'll stay henned up bad for 7-10 days or so and then maybe get lonely??? Thanks again for the reply's!!! (Only 365 days until next KY. turkey season..I can't wait)

[slickhead slayer]

The NWTF magazine had a really good article a month or two back on what hunting pressure does to gobbling.
They tracked the gobbling on two tracts of land that joined, one allowed hunting, the other didn't.
The gobbling activity was almost exact on the two before season. As the season progressed, the unhunted area stayed the same throughout the season. The hunted area dropped off considerable. A little less each day as the season when on.
Hunting pressure is the reason for lower gobbling activity late in the season.

[Feedman]

have a question for you all??? We're hunting a farm in Ohio that is ideal turkey country. It's a cattle farm with about 100+cows on the one side of the road and about 75+sheep on the other.


What kind of Sheep!!!:D :D :eek:

Are there more birds on the cow side or the sheep side. Coyotes may be staying more on the sheep side of the road and pressuring the turkeys to the cattle side.

[Multidigits]

The day before you posted the question was a poor day for gobbling.

Plus, turkeys don't mind cows. They like the undersides of cow turds for bugging. Don't know nothing about sheep???

[jeff ward]

i agree with rutnbuck 100%.
and if you find livestock you will find turkey !! they do love to flip turds for bugs..

[allaroundhunter]

Plus, turkeys don't mind cows. They like the undersides of cow turds for bugging. Don't know nothing about sheep???


Like we are really to believe this multi. Everyone knows you still carry those hip boots with you.

[Davidlondon4]

Actually what Multi is saying is true.Turkeys will and do turn over dried cowpies looking for something --bugs, corn, who knows but I have seen it myself in over 10 years of turkey hunting.