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    things I have learned

    I posted this at the end of last season my apologies if you saw it then and are rereading it now getting ready for a new season and getting excited best of luck to everyone of my pheasant hunting peers!!
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    State released pheasant

    pheasant forever article: 12 week old released birds-- presumed roosters and into decent habitat 60% survival at 1 week 25% at 1 mo 5-10 % at start of winter spring released hens 50 % get a chance to nest 5-40 chicks per 100 related hens wild hens average 4 chicks per hen...
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    Frost interseeding rye/brome? What might work?

    not sure where you are but in South Dakota we deal with this problem often if there were ever warm season grasses there, it can be recovered by spraying Roundup in spring when the ground is less than 50 degrees doesn't really matter how long ago the warm season grass was there-- the root system...
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    Released birds - the numbers

    hen pheasants will parasitize another hens nest to lay eggs thus not all of her chicks are "hers' this makes a case for releasing hot/bred hens in spring -- still a low yield pheasants forever had a recent article that roughly said: released rooster pheasants-- 50% 1 week survival , 25% 1...
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    Grassland Improvement

    i have done all of these; disked, burned ,chemicals, fall spray, spring spray, baled and prayed i have found a burn or haying off in spring then sprayed Roundup before ground is 48 degrees usually before May 1 in SE SD worked the best warm season are dormant and will not be harmed brome will...
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    Things I learned and Questions I have

    pheasant season 2024-2025 "things I learned and question I have!" disclaimer—some of these are true i do own land, so some of these pertain to landownership -You can still farm and leave some for the pheasants -Pheasants don’t need much help but they do need some help -Spray Roundup before...
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    Saying Goodbye

    -i measure my life by the dogs i've had - i am suspicious of people who don't like dogs , but i trust a dog when it doesn't like a person-- bill murray -owing a dog is joyful count down to a heart break -if you need dogs in heaven to be happy, there will be dogs in heaven -you can never have...
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    How often do you hunt pheasants?

    pheasants --approximately 35 days a year, give or take a few, for 35 years
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