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Whitetail Habitat Solutions for the south

Might look at permaculture solutions for your place. You can do much more and cheaper, though it takes years to build it up.
 
As an example...look at growing short availability fruit trees. If you're just wanting to grow food for attraction just during season, look for varieties of fruit trees that only drop fruit during the times you'll be hunting. There's pears that are rock hard until December.

You can grow trees with minimal equipment.
 
SNIPERBBB said:
As an example...look at growing short availability fruit trees. If you're just wanting to grow food for attraction just during season, look for varieties of fruit trees that only drop fruit during the times you'll be hunting. There's pears that are rock hard until December.

You can grow trees with minimal equipment.
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I bet those hogs will gobble up the fruit before the deer. It’s hard to give the deer anything without the hogs gobbling it up unless it’s a lot of it like foodplots provide. I’d just plant wheat, oats and rye to give the most for the buck. I don’t know where you are located but that works just about everywhere and the hogs won’t wipe it out. Summer plots will bring in the numbers. I keep clover all year here in alabama. They live it. It doesn’t grow very well in the heart of the winter. It can’t keep up with the deer brows so I add oats. This year will be my 1st year spraying my clover to kill out the grass this spring and let the clover take off. I’ll over seed with oat and maybe wheat this fall so as my clover stunts on the colder days, the oats will fill in. Then spray a grass killer again in the spring to kill out the oats. I’ll see how that works. But clover is my base crop.
 
Im over in north east texas. Where the pigs out populate the humans. Haha. What clover/ clover mix do you use?

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swampsnyper said:
Good. Now encourage your neighbors to feed. All the hogs will go there. Lol
Isn’t much you can do except trap them. If you do that, you got to feed so you are just attracting more.
Some how I quoted you but was meant for [mention]therooster240g [/mention]
Anyway, from what I’ve seen and what friends that has had hunting leases for decades before hogs, now see less deer since the hogs have moved in.
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Thankfully i dont have hogs yet but they are not to far away.
 
CooterBrown said:
I dont have anything at this point I'm just getting started as a land owner and trying to do it right.
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I just have one feeder and 2 foodplots on 45 ac of hardwoods. The one feeder is in my yard and I don’t want to compete with it with another feeder because I like seeing the deer everyday. I use whitetail institute clover. I know people say it’s no different than other white clover but I disagree. It’s full of 4 leaf clovers and my kids have found a 5 leaf clovers occasionally. It’s really a forage clover and the deer love it all year in Alabama. It just struggles to regenerate in the heart of winter. Last year I mixed Plot Spike’s forage feast with it when I planted the clover in the fall. The clover is really taking off this spring. I’m hoping I won’t have to plant the clover again this year and keep it for a few years as long as I can manage the weeds. I set my cameras on video and I’ll have 10 deer in the plots munching down. Makes me feel good to see a long stems of clover hanging from their mouth. Got to get your ph and fertilizer right.
One thing that WHS stated that I never thought of was to plant all your foodplots with the same stuff in them. Deer prefer different plants at certain times of the year. If plot #1 has oats and plot #2 has wheat, they will go to the plot that’s ripe at that time. And you don’t want that. You want a consistent pattern. Does bedded right off the food plot and coming to it on schedule every day. The same group of does. You don’t want them traveling further to a sweeter plot changing their patterns and mixing with other doe groups. Mixing doe groups cause stress and may change their patterns. And if you are set up on a plot knowing where the doe group beds, you can set up undetected. If a different group comes in, it may come in from another direction and once they bust you, they will be scent checking your stand before they come in.
It’s pretty cool to plan and set up like this but it’s just guide lines and a goal. We all know things change and we have no control over it. And different deer handle pressure differently. It’s just something you can do to put the odds in your favor.
I’ve been enjoying working plans and seeing the outcomes. Somethings work and other things surprise me.
 
swampsnyper said:
I just have one feeder and 2 foodplots on 45 ac of hardwoods. The one feeder is in my yard and I don’t want to compete with it with another feeder because I like seeing the deer everyday. I use whitetail institute clover. I know people say it’s no different than other white clover but I disagree. It’s full of 4 leaf clovers and my kids have found a 5 leaf clovers occasionally. It’s really a forage clover and the deer love it all year in Alabama. It just struggles to regenerate in the heart of winter. Last year I mixed Plot Spike’s forage feast with it when I planted the clover in the fall. The clover is really taking off this spring. I’m hoping I won’t have to plant the clover again this year and keep it for a few years as long as I can manage the weeds. I set my cameras on video and I’ll have 10 deer in the plots munching down. Makes me feel good to see a long stems of clover hanging from their mouth. Got to get your ph and fertilizer right.
One thing that WHS stated that I never thought of was to plant all your foodplots with the same stuff in them. Deer prefer different plants at certain times of the year. If plot #1 has oats and plot #2 has wheat, they will go to the plot that’s ripe at that time. And you don’t want that. You want a consistent pattern. Does bedded right off the food plot and coming to it on schedule every day. The same group of does. You don’t want them traveling further to a sweeter plot changing their patterns and mixing with other doe groups. Mixing doe groups cause stress and may change their patterns. And if you are set up on a plot knowing where the doe group beds, you can set up undetected. If a different group comes in, it may come in from another direction and once they bust you, they will be scent checking your stand before they come in.
It’s pretty cool to plan and set up like this but it’s just guide lines and a goal. We all know things change and we have no control over it. And different deer handle pressure differently. It’s just something you can do to put the odds in your favor.
I’ve been enjoying working plans and seeing the outcomes. Somethings work and other things surprise me.
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What size plots do you have?
 
CooterBrown said:
What size plots do you have?
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The backyard plot is 1/2 ac and the back plot is 1/4ac but I’m slowly expanding it. Takes a lot of time to clear the woods for a plot. Deer use them every night, evening and morning. I’ve never killed a deer on my place. It would be easy though. I rarely hunt it. It’s mostly for the kids. I rather shoot a doe elsewhere but I’ll try for one of the older bucks.
 
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