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Attracting Turkey - Seed vs bushes #7547583
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Bushes vs Seed

What works?

We cannot bait ...but can plant attract .


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Re: Attracting Turkey - Seed vs bushes [Re: 330-Trapper] #7547596
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Chufa, if you can keep coons and hogs out of it.
Clovers and field peas are good as well.

But most importantly good nesting cover.


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Re: Attracting Turkey - Seed vs bushes [Re: 330-Trapper] #7547754
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I have not planted specifically for turkeys but they really hammer my clover plots in the spring. Almost every spring gobbler killed on my property is chuck full of clover when I cut them open after harvest to see what they have been eating. I plant all my clover in the late summer/early fall with a wheat nurse crop. The next spring the wheat gets seed heads just before I mow it off and it seems like the turkeys key on it then but it is at the end of our season and a short window. Our season runs mid April to mid May now.

I do plant some sorghum, milo, etc for the game birds in the early summer but most of it is gone by the time our fall turkey season roles around in October.

I have been wanting to try chufa but haven’t gotten around to trying it

Re: Attracting Turkey - Seed vs bushes [Re: 330-Trapper] #7547775
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You're gonna need some sandy soil or at least loamy soils for chufas. They will grow in clay but turkeys cannot scratch them up.


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Re: Attracting Turkey - Seed vs bushes [Re: 330-Trapper] #7547875
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What sort of bushes do you mean?

Re: Attracting Turkey - Seed vs bushes [Re: Swamp Wolf] #7547984
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Originally Posted by Swamp Wolf
You're gonna need some sandy soil or at least loamy soils for chufas. They will grow in clay but turkeys cannot scratch them up.


I forgot about that. I've only planted them in lower alabama which only has two soil types rock hard red hill clay or sandy loam. You don't even try planting on the hard stuff.


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Re: Attracting Turkey - Seed vs bushes [Re: M.Magis] #7548129
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Originally Posted by M.Magis
What sort of bushes do you mean?

Berry bushes


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Re: Attracting Turkey - Seed vs bushes [Re: 330-Trapper] #7548310
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I can't think of any berry bush that's worth planting for turkey food. Not that they won't eat the berries, but they don't produce anywhere near the amount of food that an annual crop will. And berries aren't nearly as preferred as grains and seeds.

Re: Attracting Turkey - Seed vs bushes [Re: 330-Trapper] #7548314
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I was just wondering .
Farm yard SW. Of me had 8 Turkeys eating out of a Crab tree


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Re: Attracting Turkey - Seed vs bushes [Re: 330-Trapper] #7548338
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Any seed that generates a heavy insect population, millet, clover, prairie grasses- etc.

Re: Attracting Turkey - Seed vs bushes [Re: 330-Trapper] #7548366
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Originally Posted by 330-Trapper
I was just wondering .
Farm yard SW. Of me had 8 Turkeys eating out of a Crab tree



I have 100's of apple trees on my place of different varieties but most are "wild apples" and the fruit is small, like dime sized. I have a heck of a time with the turkeys getting into them and busting them up. Having turkeys here is a new thing, in the last 4-5 years. I planted the apples for the deer and the grouse and most now have the tops broken out of them.


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Re: Attracting Turkey - Seed vs bushes [Re: 160user] #7548369
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Originally Posted by 160user
Originally Posted by 330-Trapper
I was just wondering .
Farm yard SW. Of me had 8 Turkeys eating out of a Crab tree



I have 100's of apple trees on my place of different varieties but most are "wild apples" and the fruit is small, like dime sized. I have a heck of a time with the turkeys getting into them and busting them up. Having turkeys here is a new thing, in the last 4-5 years. I planted the apples for the deer and the grouse and most now have the tops broken out of them.


Your grouse are going to suffer as the turkeys take over. I hate turkeys and now we have the stupid things all over N.WI.

Re: Attracting Turkey - Seed vs bushes [Re: 330-Trapper] #7548429
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They're only expanding and Grouse are still cycling up and down

I hated them at first ...they kept deer away from my bow stands. Now they feed with the deer


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Re: Attracting Turkey - Seed vs bushes [Re: 330-Trapper] #7548903
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Not sure if hazelnut would work for turkey but it works for ducks.

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Originally Posted by Bob_Iowa
Not sure if hazelnut would work for turkey but it works for ducks.

I bought some from Gurneys couple years ago. They were tiny and died. I got replacement s they died


I will look for some hazelnut trees locally

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Re: Attracting Turkey - Seed vs bushes [Re: 330-Trapper] #7548965
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Sawtooth oak, the gobbler variety with smaller acorns.


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I don't have time for an oak grin


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Re: Attracting Turkey - Seed vs bushes [Re: 330-Trapper] #7549045
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Sawtooth are fast. Almost as quick as fruit trees. Definitely less than pecans, which are another good turkey food in the smaller varieties.


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Re: Attracting Turkey - Seed vs bushes [Re: 330-Trapper] #7549130
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Warrior, I have two bur oaks up here and the turkeys like them enough to spend time breaking them down and fighting the white-tails for the acorns...Yup perhaps too long out for 330, but the next generation of hunters will like them...


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Re: Attracting Turkey - Seed vs bushes [Re: Redknot] #7549145
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Originally Posted by Redknot
Warrior, I have two bur oaks up here and the turkeys like them enough to spend time breaking them down and fighting the white-tails for the acorns...Yup perhaps too long out for 330, but the next generation of hunters will like them...

Yep, I've put in 5 years enhancing this area.. it's coming around though for Deer and Turkey.


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