In the planning phase of some quail habitat restoration for this coming spring. I have app a 2 acre field adjacent to planted pines and another 30+ acre overgrown field full of grasses and brier patches.
I intend to plant sorghum and dove proso millet in the 2 acre field bordered and stripped with rows of alamo switchgrass and weeping lovegrass. Thinking I can continue to plant the sorghum/millet mixture every spring and leave the grasses for year round cover and additional feed. If all goes well, I will branch out from there.
Anyone have any more suggestions? Any does or don'ts? Better planting options?
I am currently releasing birds on a weekly basis for training purposes and have seen a steady number surviving in this years browntop millet stands. They also have a johnny house to return to, which I plan on building another over the winter/spring of this year.
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