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Post by trapperdave on Oct 15, 2016 21:46:41 GMT -5
I sure hope the bunnies appreciate all the time and sweat I'm putting into making them some good cover out back lol Started with several pieces of plastic and ceramic tile, covered in brush. Several ears of corn and piles of whole soybean plants. Now cutting willow trees ( some 16" plus diameter) and dragging with tractor into place whole. More to cut and drag tomorrow. Gonna one big cozy brush pile for them....they better use it.  Pics tomorrow |
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Post by trapperdave on Oct 16, 2016 13:41:28 GMT -5
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Post by trapperdave on Oct 16, 2016 13:50:09 GMT -5
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Post by whitetaildave24 on Oct 16, 2016 18:20:11 GMT -5
Lotta work but good for you. Hope they like their newly built home.
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Post by trapperdave on Oct 16, 2016 18:40:11 GMT -5
The banks were so over grown you couldn't get to the water. Hope to rent an excavator next year and get it dug back out. Its silted in a lot the last forty years. Wish I would have taken a before pic.
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Post by span870 on Oct 19, 2016 7:33:05 GMT -5
Salt and suffer blocks
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Post by trapperdave on Oct 19, 2016 13:26:02 GMT -5
On the list |
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Post by span870 on Oct 19, 2016 13:55:01 GMT -5
Get rid of the cats too.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2016 14:55:54 GMT -5
Deer don't like rabbits ever!
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Post by throbak on Oct 19, 2016 16:27:17 GMT -5
I Have WSG every where and my mission is Kill Fescue I've planted clover around all the Different WSG fields Every where I've drug trees like you have I killed the Fescue first , Don't forget Fescue is the enemy whatever your managing for !!
I've planted several plots of pollinator Habitate Again no Fescue
I'm not managing for Rabbits per sey , but guess what I have Rabbits out the Wazoo there everywhere to the point of being a nuisance so I must be doing something right LOL BTW Deer like Rabbit Habitate waynes
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Post by span870 on Oct 19, 2016 16:31:10 GMT -5
I Have WSG every where and my mission is Kill Fescue I've planted clover around all the Different WSG fields Every where I've drug trees like you have I killed the Fescue first , Don't forget Fescue is the enemy whatever your managing for !! I've planted several plots of pollinator Habitate Again no Fescue I'm not managing for Rabbits per sey , but guess what I have Rabbits out the Wazoo there everywhere to the point of being a nuisance so I must be doing something right LOL BTW Deer like Rabbit Habitate waynes A nuisance you say? 😁 |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2016 18:21:30 GMT -5
Yes, Fescue is bad for rabbits, grouse, and quail. I grow nothing but grass, not fescue for me. Bluegrass/rye grass mix. Wild tall timothy grass for the fields.
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Post by span870 on Oct 19, 2016 19:05:02 GMT -5
Make sure you watch the crows. They do a huge number on nest and baby bunnies.
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Post by throbak on Oct 19, 2016 19:25:12 GMT -5
The Rabbits one year chewed all my blackberry canes and I lost a years berries Now As soon as I can I set live traps between the rows an Catch all I can and shoot all I can in that area last year trapped 8 and shot 5 just around the black berries The Warm Season Grass is such good cover Preditors of any kind are not an issue the secret on WSG is I can walk through the Entire 35 acres and not get my bare feet out of dirt
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Post by firstwd on Oct 20, 2016 21:50:38 GMT -5
The saddest part about all the money people spend on "improving" their land for deer it that it could be cut by 3/4 and used to create small game habitat and these people would end up with some of the best deer ground possible.
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Post by span870 on Oct 24, 2016 17:28:28 GMT -5
The saddest part about all the money people spend on "improving" their land for deer it that it could be cut by 3/4 and used to create small game habitat and these people would end up with some of the best deer ground possible. Funny you say that. I have several buddies in Kentucky I run dogs with. All have large running pens full of switchgrass and native grasses, all for rabbits. 3 of them have killed 150"-170" bucks this year, all out of their running pens. Pretty much everyone I know that has running pens have to chase the deer out of the pen on a regular basis. Very few have any good sources for the deer but they love the cover. |
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Post by firstwd on Oct 24, 2016 18:10:59 GMT -5
The saddest part about all the money people spend on "improving" their land for deer it that it could be cut by 3/4 and used to create small game habitat and these people would end up with some of the best deer ground possible. Funny you say that. I have several buddies in Kentucky I run dogs with. All have large running pens full of switchgrass and native grasses, all for rabbits. 3 of them have killed 150"-170" bucks this year, all out of their running pens. Pretty much everyone I know that has running pens have to chase the deer out of the pen on a regular basis. Very few have any good sources for the deer but they love the cover. It's not rocket science. I grew up behind a pack of tri-coloreds and we always came across large and large numbers of deer. People these days see all this crap on television telling them the "secrets" of how to grow, see, and kill big deer, but all they are doing is making some marketing guru rich. |
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Post by poc on Oct 24, 2016 22:01:08 GMT -5
So what would you do to create good rabbit cover?
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Post by span870 on Oct 25, 2016 5:08:26 GMT -5
So what would you do to create good rabbit cover? Hinge cut. Let light in to create natural growth and put food down from remaining growth on tree. Spend money planting warm season grasses. Get rid of fescue which serves no purpose to anything. |
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Post by trapperdave on Jan 7, 2017 17:50:31 GMT -5
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