Touring a BEAUTIFUL Sunflower Field for Doves
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Join us for July 7th tour of our managed dove field. Sunflowers are starting to bloom! Something is tearing up our corn, grrrrr.
We talk management techniques as we tour the dove field.
They look great.
Love the update and it looks really good. The sunflowers turned out great. My dove proso is doing well and the sunflowers that I do have are doing well too. My brown top millet likely will not make it by opening day. I'll plan on burning it off around the 3rd week of the season to have a good shoot later within the first season. The drought really got me this year on the brown top millet. I put it out on the 9th of June and it did not germinate until the 5th of July. What luck I have.
Good job looks good👍👍
I won't try and dispute what you say about tiny seed in the video but one of the best Dove shoots I've ever been on was in a Bermuda grass hay field. You want to talk about tiny seed they are extremely tiny. The hay field had just been cut and bailed but the ground was not clear either. The Bermuda was a cut at a couple inches above the ground but the Doves loved it!
Oh I am not saying they wont eat small seed, they absolutely will. They love a dried clover field as well. I was just saying the sunflowers themselves end up not producing much seed
I really enjoy and appreciate the knowledge I have picked up from you this growing season. Planted my first plot of clear fields and brown top this year on Knotts Island . Got my dates wrong and everything is about 2 weeks to a month behind. This drought has been rough planted my millet not knowing at the beginning of the 10 day drought which again set it behind.
Hopefully you get caught up with the recent rainfall. 2 weeks behind might still be ok!
Love the update last year I thought the same thing. Had a beautiful stand and the deer started nocking my fence down and it got away from me. They had already bloomed and I wasn’t worried about it however the deer started and ended up eating all my heads on my plants.
I guess the hope is, they have learned by now that fence is hot so even with the top wires off, they know the bottom means business and its not worth it. I will be out there Saturday (will have been a week), if I see head predation I might do something. That top runner goes up quick. We wanted it prettier for family pictures
The deer smoke the fully formed heads around our neck of the woods. Even when they’re drying out. Interested to see how it works taking the fence down. Looks good!
We left all the bottom runners hot, I think they are conditioned enough at this point of the growing season not to mess with it. We are leaving it hot. Lot of family coming for pictures so we didnt want it quite so tacky looking
Looks good ..Great job!
Looks good bud. Mine are just starting to hang down. Should have some good seeds to drop even though we have been extremely dry.
Great! Should be a nother good year. You head size looked awesome
First year planting clearfields have watched a lot of your stuff and found it very helpful. We planted a little later but it’s starting to come along well. Field is clear for the most part but wondering if I could spot spray with grass out max to try to get ahead of grasses. Broadleafs are taken care of. Didn’t know if you had any experience with the grass out max?
Looks really nice, gonna have a great season 👍
Hope so! Headed down today for some pictures we are in full bloom!
Have you thought about irrigation? I just purchased an irrigation gun, 2” water hose and trash pump from harbor freight. Going to test it out tomorrow, I was told I can get 100-150ft with this vs buying a pto driven pump and using irrigation pipe. This way it’s a fraction of the cost.
We expanded our little pond and have irrigation pipes in the ground, but due to time limitations we have not messed with it. Thankfully got rain right when we needed it, in full bloom 7/14
My feild is in full bloom, something really weird, there are a few plants that the heads have been cut off. Like literally clean sliced off or just barely hanging on. Not sure if a bird is doing it or bugs. There are only a few so I'm hoping it don't affect to much of the feild. Not sure what if anything to do about it
Sunflower head clipping weavil, Google it! Had the same last year, we rotated fields and it helped
I just found your channel and it’s awesome! Great content! So you mow the millet before burning though or just let it all mature out and then burn? Thank You for your time!
Welcome, glad you found us!
If you unplugged the fence would the doves perch on them like power lines?
I think they will sit on it hot, they are not grounded. I have seen them balancing on the wires in years past. We have a fake 3 pole power line about the millet they load up on
That hurricane that hit knocked almost all of my sunflowers down about 2 acres u think they will survive even though they got laid over I know the ones that snapped won’t but mostly all laid down or anything I could do or just wait and see what happens ?
Ah man! Hate to hear that.. not sure man, depends on how bad it is and if the roots took too much of a hit. Thats a bummer after all that work!