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Chickens, ducks, and turkeys in planted fields ? #6883142
05/26/20 11:30 PM 05/26/20 11:30 PM
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Farmer got the soybeans in a few weeks ago and the sprouts are about 2" to 3" high. Mainly in the evening the birds like to go out in the field to scratch and peck like birds do. I don't want to cause any crop damage, but it's hard to tell if they are just looking for bugs are scratching up last years split corn, or eating the fresh bean sprouts.. The ducks move around pretty fast and do the least "pecking" ;the turkeys seem to peck at the ground non stop. Not sure what the chickens are doing. Any insight on the topic ? -Thanks
Re: Chickens, ducks, and turkeys in planted fields ? [Re: kyron4] #6883186
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walk out and have a look.

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Re: Chickens, ducks, and turkeys in planted fields ? [Re: kyron4] #6883192
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Should be easy to see if they are damaging the beans.
Re: Chickens, ducks, and turkeys in planted fields ? [Re: kyron4] #6883227
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Crop Eaters! Killllll!!

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Re: Chickens, ducks, and turkeys in planted fields ? [Re: kyron4] #6883231
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Probably reducing pest bug and slug population.

wanna be goat farmer.
Re: Chickens, ducks, and turkeys in planted fields ? [Re: kyron4] #6883260
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My chickens run around my garden all the time.They just eat the bugs and walk around the plants.I like them in there.

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Re: Chickens, ducks, and turkeys in planted fields ? [Re: kyron4] #6883688
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They’ll definitely pull out the young plants. They’ll pull up the plant with the seed still attached and eat the whole thing. Where I grew up, the geese would walk right down the corn rows. Several geese would wipe out multiple rows of 30’+ in no time. There were years when we had to replant a couple acres of corn from the Wild turkeys and Canada geese

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Re: Chickens, ducks, and turkeys in planted fields ? [Re: kyron4] #6883834
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Not seeing any damage . but got them locked in pen 25'x25' till the plants grow a little taller.
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