So here on the farm the pheasants have gathered in the grove with all the sub zero temps and new snow fall.
I’ve taken to dumping a half pail of corn out there every few days, it gets cleaned up. The deer feed around the grain bins, I don’t know how but they can lick every last kernel out of an auger hopper.
When we had cows the pheasants would be in the feedlot, picking through the droppings for grain. Back when all the grain went to town via wagons the roads this time of year were lined with birds of all sorts picking up lost grain. If anyone has been around a farmer loading wagons he knows that if another half bushel would fit in the right front corner of a wagon the guy would be up,there with a scoop shovel.
No much grain blows off tarped semi trucks.
So, right or wrong I’m giving the pheasants a few dollars worth of corn these days.
I’ve taken to dumping a half pail of corn out there every few days, it gets cleaned up. The deer feed around the grain bins, I don’t know how but they can lick every last kernel out of an auger hopper.
When we had cows the pheasants would be in the feedlot, picking through the droppings for grain. Back when all the grain went to town via wagons the roads this time of year were lined with birds of all sorts picking up lost grain. If anyone has been around a farmer loading wagons he knows that if another half bushel would fit in the right front corner of a wagon the guy would be up,there with a scoop shovel.
No much grain blows off tarped semi trucks.
So, right or wrong I’m giving the pheasants a few dollars worth of corn these days.