Is there anything that can be planted in with a hilltop deer food plot that might draw a few doves in January? Hopefully something that can be mixed in with chicory, wheat, rape? Would millet or sorgham do?
Is there anything that can be planted in with a hilltop deer food plot that might draw a few doves in January? Hopefully something that can be mixed in with chicory, wheat, rape? Would millet or sorgham do?
Standing corn
Wild bird seed, heavy on the black oil sunflowers, planted with a white bucket and 5 finger hand spreader over fresh disced dirt.
Replant as needed.
Plant cracked corn or chicken feed
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Some of you have been paying attention in class...
I've got a limb shredder I use for corn and it rots on the ground.
They have just vanished. I haven't seen a single dove for more than a month....until yesterday evening. I was sitting at the pond just relaxing after I put the tractor up and saw probably 75 doves in 3 or 4 flocks fly over the pond. Not sure where they are feeding or roosting but they're somewhere near by. I put out several bags of wheat last weekend and have corn and sunflowers still on the ground but the doves aren't in it.
Coincidentally or not, there are about ten million crows swarming the place to eat the left-over peanuts. I'm wondering if the crows run off the doves. The crows are not in my dove field but in an adjacent field. I may have a crow thinning next weekend. A few years ago, a friend and I shot 110 crows in one morning.
This was a different day. We only got 75.
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Last edited by Palmetto Bug; 12-07-2020 at 07:08 PM.
I shot a couple crows and threw their carcasses in the peanut field that they have been swarming. The next day, none were landing in the field. Crows understand a threat.
I also saw maybe 50 doves in the peanut field that is adjacent to my dove field that has corn and wheat rotting on the ground. Not a single dove in the dove field. They even roosted in a big tree between the two fields. The peanut field is so barren of cover, there's no way to effectively hunt it.
We were spreading lime in Rowesville this morning and there were a couple hundred working Ccleroys neighbors field.
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