The order and timing of forage preferences
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Foggy47
5 year old buck +
Dont make me have to slap some sense into you! Work around those oaks and leave them be. I work hard now to keep some of each of the legumes / grains / and brassica available as long as I can into fall. The oaks provide some vertical cover for a better sense of well being for the deer.....IMO. Not to mention acorns and a licking / rubbing tree.
SD51555
5 year old buck +
Let's start a new thread...
wklman
5 year old buck +
SD51555
5 year old buck +
Jump into the oaks thread. I'm not the only one thinking this.
Oaks: Let's have a hard conversation
Who'da thunk there's an anti-oak theory out there. Maybe there isn't, but I have one. On my place... My dominant oak is bur. In a year like this, I have acorns everywhere. They were still falling as of yesterday, but that will soon be over. The acorns do not last very long. I'd put it...
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sandbur
5 year old buck +
Oaks that are in the open develop a better crown with time and they should then have better acorn crops.
As to your original question, take a look at wild forages. For get me not, frozen daisy fleabane.
Alfalfa can stay green into winter if it gets an early, heavy snowfall. It also works for clover. I think a young planting of either also helps.
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Native Hunter
5 year old buck +
This is my place. I did this quickly and may come back and edit it when I get more time.
January, February:
* Greenbrier
* Japanese Honeysuckle
* Various shrubs (Arrowwood, ROD, other dogwoods, strawberry bush, hazelnut, etc.)
* Late dropping persimmons and other fruit
* Other Preferred browse other than shrubs (especially in the NH Jungle planting)
* Green Forb Rosettes in native grass fields
* Tender grasses coming up in the shooting lanes I mowed in September
* Basal leaves of goldenrod and some other dormant forbs
* Left over food plot items from fall planting
March, April, May:
* Dozens of different Forbs in native grass fields and fence rows
* Shrubs and other browse - but starting to taper off
* Tender young grasses (both cool season and warm season) (10%)
* Wheat heads in food plots
* Other food plot species from fall planting
June, July, August, September:
* Soybean fields from germination until harvest
* Cornfields starting in mid September and continuing until harvest
* Scavenging of beans and corn left on ground after harvest (at night)
* Various forbs in native grass fields
* Early to mid season apples and pears and other planted fruits
* Early Persimmons
* Early chestnuts beginning in September
* Early native acorns in late September
* Various Wild fruits like black cherry, etc.
* Hazelnuts and other nuts
* Food plot species from last fall planting
October, November, December:
* October Chestnuts
* Sawtooth acorns
* My food plots
* Persimmons (and a dang bunch of them)
* Native Acorns
* Late apples and pears
* Green Forb Rosettes in native grass fields
* Preferred browse of all kinds
* Hazelnuts and other nuts
* Tender grasses coming up in the shooting lanes I mowed in September
* Japanese honeysuckle starting in late November
* Greenbrier starting in late November
January, February:
* Greenbrier
* Japanese Honeysuckle
* Various shrubs (Arrowwood, ROD, other dogwoods, strawberry bush, hazelnut, etc.)
* Late dropping persimmons and other fruit
* Other Preferred browse other than shrubs (especially in the NH Jungle planting)
* Green Forb Rosettes in native grass fields
* Tender grasses coming up in the shooting lanes I mowed in September
* Basal leaves of goldenrod and some other dormant forbs
* Left over food plot items from fall planting
March, April, May:
* Dozens of different Forbs in native grass fields and fence rows
* Shrubs and other browse - but starting to taper off
* Tender young grasses (both cool season and warm season) (10%)
* Wheat heads in food plots
* Other food plot species from fall planting
June, July, August, September:
* Soybean fields from germination until harvest
* Cornfields starting in mid September and continuing until harvest
* Scavenging of beans and corn left on ground after harvest (at night)
* Various forbs in native grass fields
* Early to mid season apples and pears and other planted fruits
* Early Persimmons
* Early chestnuts beginning in September
* Early native acorns in late September
* Various Wild fruits like black cherry, etc.
* Hazelnuts and other nuts
* Food plot species from last fall planting
October, November, December:
* October Chestnuts
* Sawtooth acorns
* My food plots
* Persimmons (and a dang bunch of them)
* Native Acorns
* Late apples and pears
* Green Forb Rosettes in native grass fields
* Preferred browse of all kinds
* Hazelnuts and other nuts
* Tender grasses coming up in the shooting lanes I mowed in September
* Japanese honeysuckle starting in late November
* Greenbrier starting in late November
