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Reed68

Reed68

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I see in some of you guys videos and pics , your bucks will be in clover patches or some type of food plot. I'm sure this really helps as a supplement to your antler feed. I know this is not a area you can leave them on all the time, just about every third day is my thinking. My question is, what type of seed do you plant and what would work for southern Oklahoma?
 
I have food plots with yellow clover, red clover, alsike clover and broom grass, crab grass and alfalfa and will leave my deer in there all growing season. We have not had any bloat or deaths from this type of feeding so I think they can be in there all the time if started with the growth season.
 
reed not saying they dont like the clovers,but i got weird deer i guess,they didnt touch the clovers till fall late,the crab grass only when forced.winter mostly. i keep it mowed they didnt like as well. if you want to feed them for antler growth feed soybean , maybe some vetch mixed in clovers,and **** for later. you gotta figure out what they like the best for that time you want to supplment . perfect timing for antler growth,they will simply devour them tops.If you look all big bucks hang around the soybean feilds. i never saw a soybean feild without some big buck hangin out . if you can grow tomatoe down south.you can grow some beans, they love them. everyday! Only my opinon Dc
 
I have every pin in 100% food plot. i use the Techomatie Monster mix. It has like 5 styles of clover and wild chicory. it last for 6 years. They love it but mainly the chicory. I pick the chicory and us that for my bottle fed fawns. In the summer it holds up to the trafic, and i'll have to mowe every week or it will get over my head. The chicory will get to be around 6 foot tall if you don't mowe it. This time of the year how ever it sucks. The pins are almost solid dirt right now. from all the snow and rain from the winter months. But it only takes a couple of weeks in the spring and it comes right back. I figure i will only plant strips this next time. so the pins stay a lot nicer this time of year. And the entire pin being planted in it is a over kill.
 
before it sends up it's stem the leaves it stools out are about 30% protein and it is very good at taking up minerals from the soil
 
The crab grass was on the property when I bought it thirty years ago. I have never been able to kill it all. I do believe the fiber in the grass helps the deer with digestion with the other hotter food like alfalfa and alsike clover as I see them eat a little of this and that. It seems they try to mix the food in their system. If a pen gets too full of old vegetation I just move the deer out and just run fifty elk in it for a few days. After the elk are done you could play golf in the pen. A week later it's ready for deer again.
 
I guess this shows how dumb we can be. My first deer pen is two years old and I killed all the crab grass that grew wild. My knew pen is overran with crab grass and I was looking for something to plant. Guess I will just be liming and fertilizing. Why fight mother nature, she put it there.
 
the crabgrass took over one pen they hardly touched it long as they got other,still got dead crabgrass!! they dont hardly touch! weird deer! i kept it mowed thinking they might eat still no! never heard nothin but good but mine wont eat it.im gettig rid of it planting something too eat!! Dc
 
My pens are predominantly fescue. Each spring around the last frost I go in an spread Ladino (white) clover. I keep most of my pens mowed down to 2 or 3 inches all summer long. This allows the clover to grow new each week and the deer love it. The fescue keeps the pen firm and the deer like its fresh growth also. I have tried to go with all clover in areas, but fresh clover is hard to mow and clogs up the mower deck. Most all summer you can look out at the pens and see a nice green lawn with clover sticking up above the grass. Mowing the pen also helps control insects and parasites. It also makes the wife happy! Well I guess that was covered under Parasites:D.
 
never heard of predominatly, but mine wont touch short or tall fescue,maybe some cowpeas i know they will eat them! and the clovers later.makes no diffrence how much you mow! Dc
 

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