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when to plant milo for doves
Posted on 3/26/13 at 5:51 pm
Posted on 3/26/13 at 5:51 pm
Title says it all. Anyone have experience? All info appreciated.
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Posted on 3/26/13 at 5:57 pm to INFIDEL
Mid may I believe. I am debating planting milo in with the sun flowers this year.
Posted on 3/26/13 at 6:00 pm to guesswho
Yeah, the other guys want to plant sunflowers. I was thinking about planting both. Opinions and past experiences are appreciated. This is my first rodeo.
Posted on 3/26/13 at 6:44 pm to INFIDEL
We are doing milo, sunflowers, and corn.
Posted on 3/26/13 at 6:51 pm to weagle99
Have done milo n brown top millet past 5 years, half field of milo half of millet.
The millet is cant miss, very drought tolerant and doves prefer it to milo, especially if field is burned.
We plant 3rd wknd in april every year
The millet is cant miss, very drought tolerant and doves prefer it to milo, especially if field is burned.
We plant 3rd wknd in april every year
Posted on 3/26/13 at 7:08 pm to INFIDEL
Infidel, I would plant sunflowers. I've planted it all. Nothing tops sunflowers for doves imo. Millet is good. Milo is fine and so is corn. A good clean sunflower field will it trump all. IF you go milo I would plant here in a couple weeks. Sunflowers you can wait till first of May.
Posted on 3/26/13 at 7:15 pm to LSUballs
We cant plant sunflowers in st francisville, too many damn deer. They let em get about 8" and mow them down, thats why we stick with milo n millett. Will be planting corn this year, not in dove field but in food plots for deer.
Our dove field is well established though
Our dove field is well established though
Posted on 3/26/13 at 7:19 pm to LSUballs
Balls, guys want to do corn strips and leave it standing for deer. I was going to plant field in millet and come back with strips of corn and sunflower. Your thoughts?
Posted on 3/26/13 at 7:22 pm to jdani11
Yea, deer will frick em up. I can't plant behind my house with a planter because of the deer. They go right down the row and eat every seedling. I have to broadcast and put so many seeds out there they can't eat them all
This post was edited on 3/26/13 at 7:23 pm
Posted on 3/26/13 at 7:25 pm to Capt ST
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Balls, guys want to do corn strips and leave it standing for deer. I was going to plant field in millet and come back with strips of corn and sunflower. Your thoughts?
That should work. The standing corn would give you something to hide in and you can clip the rest.
Posted on 3/26/13 at 7:59 pm to INFIDEL
I'm going drive a tractor for a guy who's planting some tomorrow. It's a crop, not for doves, necessarily.
Posted on 3/26/13 at 9:25 pm to LSUballs
Thanks. Looks like sunflowers is what we'll do. Now I just have to talk them into planting on a little larger scale then they were planning. Have about a 40 acre field, how many acres do we need to really attract birds? I know that is kind of a loaded question.
Posted on 3/27/13 at 6:30 am to INFIDEL
Ours is about 5 acres and we do fine
Posted on 3/27/13 at 9:13 am to INFIDEL
You dont really need a big plot. If you have a 40 acre field then maybe a few 2 or 3 acre plots around it would work well.
I personally havent seen as good of results for sunflowers as I have for others listed suck as milo, millet, and sorghum.
I personally havent seen as good of results for sunflowers as I have for others listed suck as milo, millet, and sorghum.
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