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Post by sd51555 on Jan 1, 2021 8:39:00 GMT -6
Anyone ever put out such a thing? I've become a big fan of the Martin's old log cabin channel on the tube. He's got some episodes where he documents himself hauling in wheeler barrows of sand from the area and keeping a good pile near his cabin.
He's got video of nearly a dozen grouse coming in and working on that grit. I've thought about running down to the gravel pit with a couple totes and bringing back a couple hundred pounds to put one out by each plot and one within viewing distance of the cabin.
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Post by caveman on Jan 1, 2021 8:42:41 GMT -6
Used to put out grit for pheasants. I figured the less time they were searching for it the better.
Also a big fan of Martin. Living the dream.
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Post by Catscratch on Jan 1, 2021 9:23:58 GMT -6
Done it doves.
A little off topic; you guys notice other critters using you mineral? I see squirrels, birds, yotes, coons, etc. Seems everything likes mineral not just deer.
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Post by Satchmo on Jan 1, 2021 10:15:21 GMT -6
Done it doves. A little off topic; you guys notice other critters using you mineral? I see squirrels, birds, yotes, coons, etc. Seems everything likes mineral not just deer. The rabbits seem to hit my mineral sites regularly. |
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Post by smsmith on Jan 1, 2021 10:18:20 GMT -6
Done it doves. A little off topic; you guys notice other critters using you mineral? I see squirrels, birds, yotes, coons, etc. Seems everything likes mineral not just deer. Yep, just about every critter in the woods used to hit my mineral/salt sites when it was legal to do such things here |
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Post by Bob on Jan 1, 2021 10:40:23 GMT -6
Done it doves. A little off topic; you guys notice other critters using you mineral? I see squirrels, birds, yotes, coons, etc. Seems everything likes mineral not just deer. If it was legal to have minerals out, I’d tell you I had a lotta fox tracks and rodent tracks around it after that last snowfall. |
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Post by biglakebass on Jan 1, 2021 10:43:49 GMT -6
Its not legal for minerals up there???
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Post by Satchmo on Jan 1, 2021 11:25:47 GMT -6
Its not legal for minerals up there??? Not legal at my place either, but the bunnies still hit my old mineral pits and stumps. |
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Post by biglakebass on Jan 1, 2021 11:40:26 GMT -6
I thought only cwd and surrounding areas it was banned. There is no cwd by the cats place.
I havent kept up at all on feeding or mineral bans.
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Post by Satchmo on Jan 1, 2021 11:51:47 GMT -6
I thought only cwd and surrounding areas it was banned. There is no cwd by the cats place. I havent kept up at all on feeding or mineral bans. I know they went 2 counties west of the central MN zone because the 1st county is small. |
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Post by Bob on Jan 1, 2021 11:53:55 GMT -6
Its not legal for minerals up there??? Our whole property is illegal. It naturally has 2-3lbs sodium per acre, lots of calcium and phosphorus, and a 6.0 pH dumps all kinds of micros on the surface every day of the growing season. Throw in a little gypsum to supercharge it all, and it makes Mosaic look like a mule and cart outfit. Walz is gonna need to ban geologic biochemistry to stop us. He better gird up for a fight, cause this cat ain’t going peacefully. It’ll look something like this. Be the only cat driving a four wheeler... |
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Post by Catscratch on Jan 1, 2021 12:56:35 GMT -6
I can't keep up with your guys's regulations and who can or can't do what. It's much simpler here; buy a tag, hunt in the appropriate season with the appropriate weapon. Don't be stupid.
I assume the mineral and feeding bans are tied to possible disease spread.
SD posted this and now I'm on the verge of running to town and buying a bag or two of poultry grit and oyster shell to put stations out for the quail. Not sure I see a "need" to build a station to keep sand dry, but dumping some bags out can't hurt. A healthy flock is sure to be a productive flock. With that said I'm still trying to figure out how to avoid soybean toxicity in the quail when the main crop grown is beans.
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Post by batman on Jan 1, 2021 13:22:58 GMT -6
I can't keep up with your guys's regulations and who can or can't do what. It's much simpler here; buy a tag, hunt in the appropriate season with the appropriate weapon. Don't be stupid. I assume the mineral and feeding bans are tied to possible disease spread. SD posted this and now I'm on the verge of running to town and buying a bag or two of poultry grit and oyster shell to put stations out for the quail. Not sure I see a "need" to build a station to keep sand dry, but dumping some bags out can't hurt. A healthy flock is sure to be a productive flock. With that said I'm still trying to figure out how to avoid soybean toxicity in the quail when the main crop grown is beans. Hawks may learn where the quail like to gather grit. If it concentrates quail the predators may follow. I let 30 coturnix quail go in the yard of my place one year. Bobcats set up shop in the yard by an ash tree and ate them all in a few days. Bones and cat shit all around that tree. |
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Post by Catscratch on Jan 1, 2021 14:36:45 GMT -6
I can't keep up with your guys's regulations and who can or can't do what. It's much simpler here; buy a tag, hunt in the appropriate season with the appropriate weapon. Don't be stupid. I assume the mineral and feeding bans are tied to possible disease spread. SD posted this and now I'm on the verge of running to town and buying a bag or two of poultry grit and oyster shell to put stations out for the quail. Not sure I see a "need" to build a station to keep sand dry, but dumping some bags out can't hurt. A healthy flock is sure to be a productive flock. With that said I'm still trying to figure out how to avoid soybean toxicity in the quail when the main crop grown is beans. Hawks may learn where the quail like to gather grit. If it concentrates quail the predators may follow. I let 30 coturnix quail go in the yard of my place one year. Bobcats set up shop in the yard by an ash tree and ate them all in a few days. Bones and cat shit all around that tree. Good call on the hawks. I was just out goofing, watched a hawk fly by, and thought to myself that people should start shooting them again. Had thought I would throw grit out in thickets. I never intentionally put a ground bird in the open without overhead cover. The bobcat thing relates to a thread I intend to start later about switchgrass, predators, and edge cover. Are coturnix survivors? I know locals that release raised bobwhites and pheasants but say survival rates suck. |
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Post by batman on Jan 1, 2021 14:38:37 GMT -6
Coturnix were pretty stupid. We did 25 jumbo brown quail this summer and I heard their calls less than a week.
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