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A5 Sweet 16

A5 Sweet 16

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Almost forgot about this. So these came from the crop of a rooster (I believe a 2nd year bird) I shot Nov. 8. All others I shot that weekend had been eating corn. I'm pretty sure the larger items are Russian olives.

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In the picture below, on the left is the seed/pit from one of the Russian olives (or what I'm calling Russian olives). I'm thinking the seed on the right is an OLD olive pit, like from last year maybe, with the flesh worn away. I bet he found them under the same tree. Does anyone have any different ideas?

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Have you found any interesting food that your pheasants had been eating?
 
JPH said:
These are tubers from a swamp rooster shot in SD in early November. He was 2-3 miles from row crops.
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I've seen those roots in their crops before! But only a couple times. I even took a picture of the plant I think they're from, which grow in mud in the middle of dry-ish sloughs. I'll try to find it. Here we go. I believe it's these roots.

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Last year I got a rooster with identical tubers, I found the spot he was clawing them up, it was a patch the size of a medium pizza box and a few inches deep.

This year a got a young rooster along a flooded pasture that had some green grass and black 3/8" larva and a bunch of water in the crop. I assume he was feeding in the waters edge.
 
JPH said:
These are tubers from a swamp rooster shot in SD in early November. He was 2-3 miles from row crops.
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I believe that’s yellow nutsedge - you can see a partial “nut” on the left side by your thumb.

A5 - I think you’re right with Russian olive in the second pic. Looks like those darker ones have the distinctive lines like the lighter ones even though it’s harder to see. Hard to ID the plant pic but may be curly dock?
 
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