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Old 08-18-2008, 05:09 PM
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Default Stinkin turkeys eating my food plots

anyone have any ideas to keep turkeys out my food plots before the germinate? or it a lost cause? went back after a week on my last one to find at least half of it picked clean, with evidence of the perps!
stinkin pieces of crap! let it grow, then eat it.




even this doe is chowing down on the new sprouts.
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Old 08-18-2008, 05:24 PM
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Default Re: Stinkin turkeys eating my food plots

Try this.......once Turkey season opens, let me in there to thin them out! HA!
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Old 08-18-2008, 05:27 PM
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Default Re: Stinkin turkeys eating my food plots

Make a Hillary Clinton scarecrow.
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Old 08-18-2008, 10:47 PM
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Default Re: Stinkin turkeys eating my food plots

We used to rig up some chicken wire over the plot while its growing up. Got a bunch of rebar and tied the wire to it about 12" off the ground. Im assumin your plots are small so if you want to put in a little extra work to help them grow up this wont keep them out completely but it will help.
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Old 08-19-2008, 09:23 AM
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Default Re: Stinkin turkeys eating my food plots

might have to devise something like that, thanks. yea that arent huge, just little patches weaving in and out of trees. all of them probably make up less than a 1/8 acre
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