How fast conditions change.

remy3424 said:
I certainly could have, on a label I just googled, (similar hericide) for grain sorghum 5-15" high...use drops if over 8". This label said 2 thirds of a pint/acre, I thought mine said 1 pint...I used 1 pint and I am not equipped with drops, so some crop damage would not be a surprise, I didn't have much for options.
I have a food plot on a different farm, waaay fewer pheasants there, I had a great stand of corn and sorghum from the inital planting, the corn must have been close to 30" high, the label I just saw said, for corn under 8" tall....we'll see what happens. Very little corn to worry about in the food plots in the crp.
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Any idea why there are far fewer pheasants at your one farm vs. the other? I assume just not as many acres of habitat?
 
cyclonenation10 said:
Any idea why there are far fewer pheasants at your one farm vs. the other? I assume just not as many acres of habitat?
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Exactly. The farm with all the birds is 154 acres of great habitat and 6 acres of food plots. We have 2 other farms with creeks that have filter strips, those amount to around 5 acres each, if you flushed 20 birds out of one of those, it would be a lot. Between 10 and 20 would be what you might expect. The crp farm, if you didn't limit quick and made a good pass thru it, seeing 100 would be common. They are wild and 90% are likely ahead and out of range....sometimes 100 yards or more out of range. Your's will get there with a few mild winters & warm springs.
 
remy3424 said:
Exactly. The farm with all the birds is 154 acres of great habitat and 6 acres of food plots. We have 2 other farms with creeks that have filter strips, those amount to around 5 acres each, if you flushed 20 birds out of one of those, it would be a lot. Between 10 and 20 would be what you might expect. The crp farm, if you didn't limit quick and made a good pass thru it, seeing 100 would be common. They are wild and 90% are likely ahead and out of range....sometimes 100 yards or more out of range. Your's will get there with a few mild winters & warm springs.
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It would be a sight to see the entirety of each of your farms in CRP!
 
Sgbode said:
Saw a group of 6 young pheasants last week the roosters had full color
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Glad to hear.

I was mowing our clover/alfalfa firebreaks last week and kicked up a hen very close to me - got out and could hear some very small chicks (could not fly yet). Needless to say, I left that area unmowed.
 
I would not be surprised to find in my harvest, some of this year's hatch with webbed feet....another 1.8" in the gauge from last night. I would guess we have had twice the rain as last year and a much this year as the 3 years prior to last year combined. The crops will likely be incredible and my lawn grass still needs mowed every 5 or 6 days.
 
remy3424 said:
I would not be surprised to find in my harvest, some of this year's hatch with webbed feet....another 1.8" in the gauge from last night. I would guess we have had twice the rain as last year and a much this year as the 3 years prior to last year combined. The crops will likely be incredible and my lawn grass still needs mowed every 5 or 6 days.
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Similar with rain here on this side of the State. I am hopeful that the bulk of the broods hatched without issue in June - as the weather was near perfect at that time.
 
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