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Post by Toby Benoit on Dec 18, 2005 16:56:10 GMT 12.75
Do any of you guys put in food plots of fruit trees for deer and other critters?
On my Dad's place we put in a few dozen persimmon, crabapple, and pear trees. we also planted a heck of a bunch of whiteoak and sawtooth oak trees. He cut out a lot of pine and scrub and we planted several years ago and are just now seing the trees really start producing. The deer are eating it up too.
One thing I've done for years on a lot of the public land I hunt is to carry about fifty pounds of birdseed and blackeyed peas out to where they cut in new fire breaks.
I get back in a ways from the road and scatter until I run out of seed. All them different seed plants come in and pea plants pop up and the deer and turkeys go nuts over it. It's a very inexpensive way to feed them up. I've planted corn in with it too. I carry a small yard rake with me to use as a walking stick and on the way back, I loosely cover it up.
Anything special ya'll have planted?
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Post by bloodlust on Dec 18, 2005 18:18:36 GMT 12.75
Last year, I started working on a food plot. My huntin' buddy and I cleared out a bunch of locust trees from a high traffic area, but only got a small patch of clover planted. I still have a lot of logs, and several standing trees to clear out. Then I want to plant the whole area in clover. They grazed the one little spot heavily. Obviously, they like the clover quite a bit. I thought about planting the brassicas that deer go crazy over in the fall, but I want something that will come back on its own year after year.
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Post by Paws on Sept 3, 2006 4:36:20 GMT 12.75
Look really really close about the center of the package. I wonder if this is included on the list of nutrients.
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Post by Brikatw on Sept 3, 2006 6:10:36 GMT 12.75
That ain't fiber is it? I usually throww some 10/10/10 fertilizer or some miricle grow on the wild plants around the areas I hunt in the public areas. In a couple weeks or less them browse plants are lush and tasty. The deer and other critters know it too. I even had blackberries start producing fruit a few years back. Bets part is, it ain't baiting and it does help the critters out year round.
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Post by Mars on Sept 3, 2006 8:02:25 GMT 12.75
Food plots and such are illegal here on WMA's.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Sept 3, 2006 10:50:23 GMT 12.75
This season I scattered forty pounds of birdseed around the slope. south of where we transplanted all of the persimmon trees and there's all kinds of stuff coming up. I've seen some deer in it, but the turkeys are tearing it up!
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Post by brittonfaith on Sept 3, 2006 12:07:32 GMT 12.75
Incluso los sapos mexicanos estn encontrando maneras de saltar la frontera! (Even the Mexican toads are finding ways to hop the border!) Turkeys here are not as thick as in Ohio but still in plenty. We have five Jakes and that come to eat with the heifers every morning. This morning I took some breakfast to Mike up to the old county farm. There were four does and their young'ns on the opposite end of the meadow nibbling alfalfa. On the way home, I spied a half dozen hen pheasants along a ditch where some oats were spilled. Seems like they critters aren't having any trouble finding vittles around here.
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Post by Brikatw on Sept 4, 2006 6:33:49 GMT 12.75
If they eat good Miss Faith then you should too I hope. Mars, food plots are illegal on the WMAs here too. But fertilizing is not. I asked the ranger and fish and critters about this before I tried it. It DOES work and again the critters benifit. One would be real surprised what a hand full of fertilizer will do. ;D
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Post by Mars on Sept 4, 2006 9:08:29 GMT 12.75
I thought of doing the fertilizer thing before but I'd have to do an entire area and even then I don't think it would help. Having 10 fertilized trees out of 10,000 in the area I don't think would be anything to the animals. Here, with so much land(public), you have to find an area that has something that the animals can't find an abundance of everywhere else and you can't put it there. I actualy prefer it that way. Put's the hunt back into hunting.
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