Scent Block Pheasants

soap

don't laugh too hard. I believe both the univ. of ga. and ark. did studies on repelling deer. the only thing that worked more than a day or so was dial soap and for some reason said it had to be yellow, don't get the color part. anyway a friend of mine has a turkey feeder which sometimes it seems to work and other's not so, anyway got him to try the soap. it was hung by a string next to the feeder, a couple of soaps on a rope. for two years he had no deer tracks at his feeder and his corn was safe except what the birds and squirrels stole. this past year with the advent of a trail camera, he got a few shots of rabbits, coons liked their pic. taken and very seldom, there was a deer smiling. mostly he solved the problem, therefore this wisdom says that before you release your birds tie a bar of soap too it or at least give it a bath, hey, just trying to be of help. the study and example are true however.

cheers
 
Sorry to revive and old thread but I usually only get back to this forum just before pheasant opener in SD.

The farmers I hunt with had raised birds for decades on their farm. Their maximum survival rate for released birds was to hatch in the pen, get them eating and turn them out in an active nest with a wild hen. They knew where nearly every covey was from working the farm and driving by fields everyday. They had to time their hatch just right to coincide with the wild hatch. They might scare off the hen but she would come back and take to the planted brood like they were her own. They got awareness and evasion training like any wild bird and they could effectively double the success rate of wild hatches and end up with wild birds that made it the 1-2 years into adulthood that pheasants live. They were also super agressive about predator elimination. They would talk about 10, 20, 30 miles going after a coyote- that could be pickup or snowmobile. #1 reason after CRP that they consistently had the birds.
 
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