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What to plant for ducks
Posted on 2/17/25 at 11:23 am
Posted on 2/17/25 at 11:23 am
Last year was our first year on this place. So we have a long list of projects.
One of them is what to plant for the ducks.
Two of our fields are right off the river and flood with the river.
We need something for deeper water. What is something we can plant that would grow a head over 6 to 7ft tall, taller would be even better?
One of them is what to plant for the ducks.
Two of our fields are right off the river and flood with the river.
We need something for deeper water. What is something we can plant that would grow a head over 6 to 7ft tall, taller would be even better?
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Posted on 2/17/25 at 11:35 am to Insurancerebel
rice
Posted on 2/17/25 at 11:56 am to cgrand
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rice
I have never planted rice, but does it need moist soil to plant? In the summer this is going to be dry. And it will be 5-8 ft of water on it come late December.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 12:01 pm to Insurancerebel
What kind of ducks? That’s not an ideal depth for dabblers. Is there any way to manipulate the depth of the water?
Posted on 2/17/25 at 12:04 pm to Insurancerebel
corn and leave it standing. as the river flooding rises and falls they can get to the different levels of ears.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 12:09 pm to hall59tiger
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What kind of ducks? That’s not an ideal depth for dabblers. Is there any way to manipulate the depth of the water?
We are in Quitman county ms.
IN the fields we will have corn and beans flooded, the fields next to the river, we have no control of the water levels, we only can hunt when the river hits a certain flood stage. The fields are the better hunting.
mallards, teal, gadwal for the most part. When it is flooded it seems they want to come to one side of flooded river or the other.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 12:11 pm to One More Shot
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corn and leave it standing. as the river flooding rises and falls they can get to the different levels of ears.
We will have corn left in the ag fields, I don't think we would have much success with Corn in the river fields. Doesn't hurt to ask the farmer what he thinks about planting it. Betting the hogs and grasses will destroy it.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 12:55 pm to Insurancerebel
You could try Egyptian wheat but my guess is any seeds that drop are just going to float away with the river and varying water levels. Willow trees might be your best bet because ducks like the invertebrates that live on them. I’m having a hard time imagining what you are meaning by river fields so maybe elaborating on what that means a bit would help.
This post was edited on 2/17/25 at 12:56 pm
Posted on 2/17/25 at 2:01 pm to Insurancerebel
Your options are extremely limited given that you don’t have a water control system in place. What is naturally growing in those fields right now?
Posted on 2/17/25 at 2:04 pm to Insurancerebel
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River Refuge Seed Company. call these guys. they may be able to help. owners answer the phone or call you back. they plant themselves, so they are very knowledgeable.
River Refuge Seed Company. call these guys. they may be able to help. owners answer the phone or call you back. they plant themselves, so they are very knowledgeable.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 2:15 pm to TheGhostOfBigLee
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Your options are extremely limited given that you don’t have a water control system in place. What is naturally growing in those fields right now?
This. First think I can think of off the top of my head that will grow that tall and the head (grain) remain dry in 8 ft of water is sorghum sudan, but I've got no idea if ducks like that shite.
Speaking as a farmer, if it's not a pain-in-the-arse-to-access gar hole and you pay for the seed, chemicals, fertilizer, I'd throw you a bone on the work to keep you happy as a landlord.
Main thing is I wouldn't be wanting to make a bunch of special trips for it... Like, when I've done corn in duck holes in the past, I'd only do it if it's going to be dried up when I'm planting corn. Not going to be swapping planters back to corn settings and spending a day jumping around to random little holes once I've moved into soybean and cotton planting time.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 3:34 pm to Insurancerebel
Puddlers hitting that deep water aren't doing so to feed in what's growing in it. They may feed in what's floating in it, or just be resting in it.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 4:47 pm to Insurancerebel
Check out Kester’s Wildlife Game Food Nurseries online. Www.Kestersnursery.com I’ve used them and they are reasonable and easy to deal with for alot of different duck weed seeds.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 4:55 pm to Insurancerebel
quote:Holler at me when the water starts in and I’ll show you how to hunt it.
Two of our fields are right off the river and flood with the river.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 7:29 pm to hall59tiger
Lower lying fields right next to the river.
River gets out and they fill up.
There’s no current.
There’s some buck brush in one of the fields.
It had smart weed in it, but didn’t seem like it was attracting birds.
River gets out and they fill up.
There’s no current.
There’s some buck brush in one of the fields.
It had smart weed in it, but didn’t seem like it was attracting birds.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 7:32 pm to TheGhostOfBigLee
Has smart weed this past year.
We did a food plot for deer on the elevated side of it.
Smart weed didn’t seem to hold them.
We could pump, but it probably had water 45 of the 60 days.
We did a food plot for deer on the elevated side of it.
Smart weed didn’t seem to hold them.
We could pump, but it probably had water 45 of the 60 days.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 7:41 pm to prostyleoffensetime
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Speaking as a farmer, if it's not a pain-in-the-arse-to-access gar hole and you pay for the seed, chemicals, fertilizer, I'd throw you a bone on the work to keep you happy as a landlord.
Half the farm will be corn the other have beans.
The low area in the ag fields will have standing corn and beans.
Farmer doesn’t farm these fields. One is probably 10 acres. At one time they planted them. But they are at the mercy of the river in the spring.
Other field is probably 15 acres. It’s low lying, floods first. It has brush buck on the river bank and probably about 10 acres of brush buck behind it.
When it’s dry it holds some big deer!
We probably killed 100 birds out of the gar hole. Mainly all mallards. But we were off the x. And rarely did we jump up birds resting on it.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 8:34 pm to Insurancerebel
You are really limited with that depth. I’m not sure what type of autonomy you have over manipulating the terrain but if If had something like that I’d probably plant willows on the edges and intermittent islands and just use it as a loaf pond. Maybe make some hunts on it at the end of the season. They will eat the smart weed when the seeds drop but 5-8ft is too deep for them to get into the invertebrates.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 8:42 pm to Insurancerebel
I’d let it grow up in cockleburs, stay mobile and hunt as the water dictates. Break it every few years to keep the trees whipped back. That’s small holes but if you’re shooting 100 mallards per year I wouldn’t change shite.
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