What food to use attract turkeys
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From: DonVathome
30-Jan-18
What can I use to draw turkey’s? Currently they only pass through my property. Trying to figure out what food I can use to keep them here. Not for baiting.
From: stick n string
30-Jan-18
Clover is great, the hens love to "bug" in there with the poults. Barley has been a great turkey food for us, they like to pick the heads and its extremely cheap/easy to grow.
From: GhostBird
30-Jan-18
Chufa
From: woodguy65
30-Jan-18
Chufa
From: dizzydctr
30-Jan-18
Chufa
From: White Falcon
30-Jan-18
Corn, corn, corn! In a feeder.
From: BUCKeye
30-Jan-18
Clover and alfalfa
From: stick n string
30-Jan-18
Does chufa provide anything for them into the spring, or is that pretty much a fall feed provision? I have considered putting some of that in when our ground but I thought I read somewhere that the tubers don't provide for them into the spring.
From: woodguy65
30-Jan-18
Perfect time of year for prescribed burn, turkeys love burned areas, and all the new growth.
From: Bigdan
30-Jan-18
CORN
From: Timbrhuntr
30-Jan-18
I never saw a turkey on this property in 5 years of hunting there but knew there were turkeys around. I decided to set up a section as a sanctuary and put up a corn feeder mainly to supplement the deer in the bad winters and keep them around well as a pleasant surprise I know get this.
From: Timbrhuntr
30-Jan-18
and this
From: dizzydctr
30-Jan-18
It's hard to beat a feeder with corn and/or wheat just in the woods from a good chufa patch. However, at least in my state, you will have to take the feeder down in the spring to legally hunt the area.
From: t-roy
30-Jan-18
dizzydctr........ can you explain what is going on in the pic you posted? Did you go in and dig up the chufa or was that done by the turkeys?!?!
From: TrapperKayak
30-Jan-18
Light brown gravy...
From: dizzydctr
30-Jan-18
t-roy All those holes in my chufa patch were made by turkeys scraching up the chufas. If you look closely in the foreground you can see the ground covered in turkey tracks. I'm hopeful they will still be around come spring season if they don't eat all the chufa up by then.
From: Panhandle Bob
30-Jan-18
The chufa spots on our property are scratched up like dizzydctr's pic
From: t-roy
30-Jan-18
Holy cow! It looks like a bomb zone!
From: drycreek
30-Jan-18
Henscratch ????
From: swampokie
30-Jan-18
Bahia grass. Ive saw em strip seed heads for hours. Cheap and it will spread into your deer plots and crowd out all desirable forbs. Don't really think id plant it but the turkeys love it beyond anything else! If you also run cattle its hard to beat
