What kind of millet are you planting. I have been planting chiwappa earlier and now golden millet around my pond as it receeds - but the dang black bellied whistling ducks have invaded and eat it as soon as it sprouts - and then dont have the decency to stay until duck season opens.
Managing for quail
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What kind of millet are you planting. I have been planting chiwappa earlier and now golden millet around my pond as it receeds - but the dang black bellied whistling ducks have invaded and eat it as soon as it sprouts - and then dont have the decency to stay until duck season opens.
ksgobbler
5 year old buck +
Catscratch
5 year old buck +
What's your thoughts; Sandhill or American plum?
Also, do they need stratification or anything to grow from seed? I grabbed a handful for attempts at getting them started at other places on the place.
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Also, do they need stratification or anything to grow from seed? I grabbed a handful for attempts at getting them started at other places on the place.
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Native Hunter
5 year old buck +
After work today I drove to my place to look at a couple of small food plots recently planted. As I drove past an old food plot, a covey of quail flushed. Looked like about 18 birds.
In about 50 yards past that I came up on one of the new small plots recently planted. More birds flushed, but I couldn't count them.
I drove another 150 yards to the next new plot, and as I got to the edge of it, another covey flushed. This was the biggest one. They just kept coming up - maybe 25 or more.
All these birds just flew out into the NWSGs.
It was ironic, because I noticed that two of the most important quail foods that you will find anywhere were just beginning to flower.
In about 50 yards past that I came up on one of the new small plots recently planted. More birds flushed, but I couldn't count them.
I drove another 150 yards to the next new plot, and as I got to the edge of it, another covey flushed. This was the biggest one. They just kept coming up - maybe 25 or more.
All these birds just flew out into the NWSGs.
It was ironic, because I noticed that two of the most important quail foods that you will find anywhere were just beginning to flower.
Thats extraordinarily cool! That you have grown a great buck(s) is great and I hope you get him. However to have managed your habitat to have quail like that is far more impressive to me. Bespeaks volumes to your land management . Nicely done.
I have been wanting to do a video titled " If you want big bucks you have to have butterflies" . The meaning is butterflies are an indicator specie of a healthy habitat. Same for quail . Create a habitat where quail thrive and it proposes the entire ecosystem is fully functioning.
I have been wanting to do a video titled " If you want big bucks you have to have butterflies" . The meaning is butterflies are an indicator specie of a healthy habitat. Same for quail . Create a habitat where quail thrive and it proposes the entire ecosystem is fully functioning.
Native Hunter
5 year old buck +
Thanks Rusty. It's a labor of love for me.
If you do that video, I hope to be able to see it. It sounds like it would be very educational and enjoyable.
I own land where I used to bird hunt thirty years ago. I have now owned this place for fifteen years and not seen or heard a quail on it since I have owned it. I remember working with young bird dogs in the 70’s and 80’s and the cotton rats would drive them nuts. I bush hogged four acres of a weedy last year WR/WW food plot and did not see a single cotton rat or rabbit. That was kind of surprising. Our state, along with many states in the south, has initiated a concerted effort to bring back the quail. I am in a bear/turkey hunting lease that is all commercial pine timberland - and I still see birds regularly when on that property.
