Anyone do any food plots in south Texas? I’m feeding 30-35 bucks all summer, then when they break out of the bachelor groups in October-November they move to other pastures. Thinking of doing another feed station about 1200 yards from my blind to try and keep 1-2 more mature bucks in my area.
Good cover
Good food
.... and if deer don’t like it, great dove hunting
Awesome looking field...is this just the pearl millet you noted above and sunflowers? Any sort of variety on the sunflowers? Do you mix in the I&C peas with this?
I have a ± 4.5 acre hay field that army worms and the drought decimated a few years ago. Now its a goatweed/croton field that I plant my winter plot in (only about 2 acres of it).
Our cows dont have access to this particular pasture but I like the idea of giving plenty of cover/food for the deer and worst case keeping the doves around (they like the goatweed/croton).
Awesome looking field...is this just the pearl millet you noted above and sunflowers? Any sort of variety on the sunflowers? Do you mix in the I&C peas with this?
I have a ± 4.5 acre hay field that army worms and the drought decimated a few years ago. Now its a goatweed/croton field that I plant my winter plot in (only about 2 acres of it).
Our cows dont have access to this particular pasture but I like the idea of giving plenty of cover/food for the deer and worst case keeping the doves around (they like the goatweed/croton).
That was just a field I drilled with black oil sunflowers (bird seed) and pearl head millet. I alternated every 40-50 feet. You could easily add peas to the mix though and they would do well.
Usually 60 after planting the flowers will be full bloom. 90 days dried pretty good. At 110-120 they will crumble! Pearl head needs longer probably 120-150 days. So I have dove food ready by sept 1 then another bumper crop of millet mid season that will carry through
Goat weed is useless until it “pops”... which in my area is around mid October. Dove love it IF you can get grass down extremely low. Too many people hunt goat weed opening day, and see zero..... and the ones that do well... had help ( I’d bet a new nickel milo is in the mix, cause they can’t eat a green seed inside a cotton ball )
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