My Land Tour...The Big Woods
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H20fwler
5 year old buck +
It was very recently broken.
H20fwler
5 year old buck +
Found this pic interesting, I stock some roosters in late September and give them plenty of time to go feral.
Stocked a few roosters and hens spring of 22 and 23.
So either the cover is good enough for birds to survive or they pulled off a hatch?
I guess a neighbor could have put some birds out this fall but they don’t have any of that kind of cover or CRP within a couple miles? And why release hens in fall, illegal to shoot.
I have had roosters winter over and seen one or two in spring.
Stocked a few roosters and hens spring of 22 and 23.
So either the cover is good enough for birds to survive or they pulled off a hatch?
I guess a neighbor could have put some birds out this fall but they don’t have any of that kind of cover or CRP within a couple miles? And why release hens in fall, illegal to shoot.
I have had roosters winter over and seen one or two in spring.
Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
^ ^ ^ ^ Might be you have natural breeding, H20. You have lots of good cover growing there - at least at your place. Watch for poults this spring??
H20fwler
5 year old buck +
Right along the Big Woods tonight, has been like this every morning and evening for over a week. Neighbors winter wheat, they are bedding in pasture and back side of woods.
Makes me think we are doing something right.
Pic is bad I was on the way into work tonight when I went by.
Makes me think we are doing something right.
Pic is bad I was on the way into work tonight when I went by.
H20fwler
5 year old buck +
The wife and I stopped out at the farm a couple hours ago. A pair of geese and a few bluewings on the pond.
Heard a rooster pheasant crow in the pasture, I really like that our cover is good enough that pheasants can survive on our place and make it through the winter. Less than twelve years ago it was tilled farm ground with rotated crops. Today it looks like a nature preserve.
The shrub strips are filling in nicely
The front pond with the woods in back
And I’ll try to show how the orchard looks now, it’s a little over ten years since we started it and sixty-70 fruit trees later.
The pears are done blooming, it got cold and frosted don’t think I got a decent fruit set.
Apples and crabs are starting to bloom well hopefully they won’t get too cold.
Heard a rooster pheasant crow in the pasture, I really like that our cover is good enough that pheasants can survive on our place and make it through the winter. Less than twelve years ago it was tilled farm ground with rotated crops. Today it looks like a nature preserve.
The shrub strips are filling in nicely
The front pond with the woods in back
And I’ll try to show how the orchard looks now, it’s a little over ten years since we started it and sixty-70 fruit trees later.
The pears are done blooming, it got cold and frosted don’t think I got a decent fruit set.
Apples and crabs are starting to bloom well hopefully they won’t get too cold.
