Whats best for upland birds?

What's everyones favorite crop to plant for upland gamebirds?

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Corn, milo, kane, are all really good upland bird plants.

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When you say kane, do you mean Sorgum sedan grass? :) Or is there someting else I don't know about?

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	Birdman wrote:
	When you say kane, do you mean Sorgum sedan grass? :) Or is there someting else I don't know about?

Not really sure, We go to a preserve like 3 times a year and they have it there. They just call it kane. I'll explain how it looks. Its really tall (about 6,7,8 ft) Its really green/yellow, and kind of looks like a huge corn plant w/o the cobs.

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Well for an all around upland crop you can't beat those soybeans, but for a double combo we plant bluetip switchgrass and gamma grass combo. That is a great place to hide and it also gives them food to eat.

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Well, the soybeans are great for deer, but i've heard some pretty startling news about soybeans and gamebirds while I was doing research into grinding and mixing my own gamebird feed. Apparently, theres a chemical in all beans called Trypsin, the problem with Trypsin is that it causes lesions in a birds digestive tract. The cumulative affect is that this inhibits the bird from absorbing nutrients from the food as it moves through. After a while the bird just starves to death or dies from disease from being in a weakened state. I know turkeys eat beans all the time with no apparent effects but I cannot explain this. I highly suspect that the emergence of the soybean as a prominent cash crop and the growing dissapperance of the quail are more than coincidence. Shocked

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My Benelli Montefeltro....

I have been tryin to get switch grass to grow for five yrs now. We do it all by hand so without a plow its kinda hard. sorgum is the best all around cover and feed. I think switch grass holds too many predators. nothing beats 20 acres of standing corn either.

Absolutely, corn is super. Problem is Ive never been able to plant enough to last as a winter food source. By the time winter gets here at it's worst, the deer and turkey have it completely cleaned out. Nothin left for the quail, or my released birds(non-recovered). I'd like to find something that will provide adequate winter food and cover for the quail. I'm going to try some sorghum sedan grass this season, see how that works.

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Birdman wrote:

Absolutely, corn is super. Problem is Ive never been able to plant enough to last as a winter food source. By the time winter gets here at it's worst, the deer and turkey have it completely cleaned out. Nothin left for the quail, or my released birds(non-recovered). I'd like to find something that will provide adequate winter food and cover for the quail. I'm going to try some sorghum sedan grass this season, see how that works.

That sounds like a really good alternative to me if you are having that problem.

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