Planting chicory for deer
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Has anyone tried it? What were your results both in ability to draw deer and ease of growing? Where did you get it? I have several plots of latino clover although the deer eat it they dont seem to love it. I had a guy tell me that a deer will walk through a wheat or clover patch to get to chicory. So I am thinking about trying it.
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Re: Planting chicory for deer
[Re: larrywaugh]
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Have you considered planting Turnips, Wheat, or Oats?
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Re: Planting chicory for deer
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I tried turnips last year couldn't get the deer to touch them. If chicory draws in more than deer that would be great especially if its turkeys.
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Re: Planting chicory for deer
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I tried turnips last year couldn't get the deer to touch them. If chicory draws in more than deer that would be great especially if its turkeys. My experience is that turnip must be an acquired taste for deer as they generally leave it alone if other stuff is available but come hard frost when everything but the brassicas are gone they'll hit the turnips good. Even then kale and rape seem to be preferred.
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Re: Planting chicory for deer
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It must be a different variety of chicory. We get a lot of chicory that grows wild around here, grows in yards this time of the year. I have never noticed deer to flock to it. The horses will eat it. Now a soybean field is a guaranteed magnet this time of year. Turnips aren't touched around here until about January. I notice the same things.
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Re: Planting chicory for deer
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When I planted turnips last year they didnt touch the tops. In February I finally pulled a bunch and spread them around still no action. The reason I planted them is several years ago I was trapping on a deer lease that had a turnip patch and it looked like someone had taken a tiller to the ground.
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