Re: My neighbor wants me to plant some kind of deer attra...

Posted by Billy NY on June 03, 2012 at 09:06:05 from (67.248.100.3):

In Reply to: My neighbor wants me to plant some kind of deer attracting. posted by Nicholaus Sowder on June 03, 2012 at 08:47:48:

Whitetail Institute, has a good selection of forages to plant, expensive seed, but there are others offering similar and so on.

I can say oats is inexpensive, most times a grain drill is used after tillage and seed bed preparation, but you can broadcast them, say after moldboard plowing, 1 pass with the disc, seems to set the seed with enough cover on the next pass, then you can use a cultipacker, though your soils, conditions and weather may be a lot different and oats may or may not do so well in the heat down there. I have planted them in August to get a nice fall stand, and they absolutely love it. All of the fields that were spring planted and summer harvested around here are loaded with deer when or if the oats come back or the combine spills grain that germinates, there is something palatable about young oat grass to whitetail. If you plant now, you may have to mow it, and you need rain, and of course weeds can be tough, if the oats do not shade them, out, weeds can be a problem when the oats start to turn and less shading occurs, I have seen it ruin the straw cause you can't get it clean or separate from the weeds. One year, was kind of wet, oats were harvested early august, then the rain kept up, (they were sprayed with 24D for weeds after planting when they were mature enough). that late summer fall, had the best green stand of young oat grass, I saw more deer, like a herd of 30 and the best bucks I have ever seen since I have been here and in 25 years of hunting, which also included a beautiful piebalds 8 pt as well as a piebald doe. There is an outfit that sells a type of oats for deer, but I have used whole oats from the feed store, also read that either winter wheat or similar works like this too. I can say that all the deer I harvested, each had a belly full of grass, they finish nicely on that and the meat was excellent. Oats seem to take a lot of nitrogen from the soil. Thats one inexpensive alternative, I have grown whitetail institute imperial clover and it works well just expensive to plant, though a stand will last 5 years or more, I can plant more oats and a larger area for a lot less money, and still get an excellent draw, though I would not mind creating a field like they show, if it were in the budget, lime, fertilizer, weed killer and your tillage, soil test etc, it does add up. I am not sure what it is, but the deer go for the young, supple fresh grain oat grass, not the grain or stalky plant, even if the field turns to weeds after a harvest or mowing, they come in and pick at the base or young oat grass, especially in the fall, when they bed nearby and feed to get ready for winter.

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