My Slough

- I'm going to pull limbs off again - no sense in covering up all those Beaver Limbs.
- Sawmill cuts boards, leaves tails - bark 1 side, board on the other. I'm getting a truck load of those - they are Cedar
- I'll cover the entire blind with tails, board side facing inward.
- Put 3' wide camo rubber tarp, over tails, above seating area's to shield off rain.
- Paint chicken wire gray - then lock everything down with it.
- Put all Beaver Limbs, on - through - attached, to chicken wire.
 
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Wonder if anyone has ever released Pheasant down here. We have lots of rice, soybean, wheat, corn...
 
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Water is starting to creep back in. Blind doesn't look that good yet, but in the next few days i'm going to bring the right side down the way a Beaver Hut should look. We have to find & pick up a lot more Beaver Sticks! :rolleyes:

My buddy, the one checking blind out, saw a Pheasant Rooster on one of his 100 acre fields. Must be from someone's flock. But he's excited, we're thinking of trying to build a quail population on some of his properties. He say's that Chiggers kill pheasant chicks - ever heard of that?
 
Posted two of these in another thread, sorry for getting off course. The blind is ready to hunt, but these pics are only about 75% finished. The completed blind is so realistic, I'll get pics in about 10 days. Hopefully with ducks :)
 
Finally got over to the Beaver Hut. Not much water, but we kept hearing some mallards squawking. Finally we went upstream 1/4 mile and found a bunch of Gadwalls sitting in a wide body of water. A Beaver Dam has water raised 3 feet above the downstream side, which my blind is on.. About Monday I'm going to be busting me a beaver dam.
 
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Thanks UGUIDE, those are two of my jokester buddies who limited about 1/4 mile away, then swung by my blind to take pics and act like they were hunting from it. I'm at work in Alaska until tues... No hunts out of it yet. Looking forward to y'all sending rain & ducks this weekend. Should hit Arkansas Monday.

Do ducks like Soybean? I'm thinking they do - every year the harvest trucks will spill some beans when they pull out on the road. I just can't stand to see piles of beans go to waste on the road. So last week, I stopped and shoveled up 6 tote loads. Not talking about baiting :). Was thinking of putting it out after season. Might pour it, out of the plane, on our turkey field now & then. We have sooo many turkeys on one our places.

Haven't turned turned our pumps on the rice or millet holes yet... Waiting for Mallards and winter.
 
Ducks definitely like soybeans so do deer, pheasant, turkey. I think corn is king but soybeans are up there as far as a food source for wildlife.
 
My hunting partner told me deer ate the soybean leaf but not the actual bean. Well that changes things then - corn in my feeders cost a lot, so I've been letting sit empty. Won't take me long to verify this - I'll tell my son to put some in the feeder today. Thanks. I'd think wildlife would get more protein from soybeans than corn.
 
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A few years back I watched deer hit a patch of beans left behind. A week later I walked up to the beans to see what was left. All the beans were gone. Some how they managed to leave the bean husks in tacked to the plant itself. They didn't eat the leaves though.

Maybe he's talking about the leaves when the plant is green?
 
So I took my sons friend (son had basketball yesterday), my daughters boyfriend, well daughter wanted to go watch. She stayed with us from Sunrise to Sunset, and she was pretty cold. She's 21 and lives on campus. Guess she liked it - this morning she showed up same time, same place with a license, stamps, and a 20 guage. :10sign::
 
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