Planting for Ducks

[specktator]

Was talking with the farmer of my lease this week and I plan on going meet with him later this week to show him blind locations so he can bush hog around them. He said he planted a little bit of millet and encouraged me to bring Japanese or brown top millet with me to throw out around my blinds if I would like. Any advice on what kind of millet I should go with? Or something else that would grow easily, maybe rice? How many acres would a 50 pound sack be good for? I have never planted it before. I hunt a type of marsh impoundment south of White Lake would be the best way to explain it. It's leveed all the way around and they drain it every summer and pump water back on it before teal season. So it is dry right now.

[wtretrievers]

Brown Top goes a loooong way. 20-25lbs covers 1 acre.

[Paulox86]

If it's never been planted before, it takes about 2# fertilizer to 1# of millet seed. I'd say about 25# per acre of seed. G&H seed will help you. Buy enough and they will give you the spreader cart to use.

[meaux fishing]

I would plant Japanese Millet it grows well in standing water. Browntop is actually better for well drained soils. If you need a broadcaster you can come borrow mine. I have one that you pull behind a 4 wheeler and one that works on the pto of a tractor. Id say 15-20lbs an acre

[MarshRat89]

Originally Posted by meaux fishing

I would plant Japanese Millet it grows well in standing water. Browntop is actually better for well drained soils. If you need a broadcaster you can come borrow mine. I have one that you pull behind a 4 wheeler and one that works on the pto of a tractor. Id say 15-20lbs an acre

This or G&h sells a waterfowl mix. If you get it in the ground soon you'll be ready for teal season. Most millet takes 60-70 days to mature.


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[Reefman]

Originally Posted by meaux fishing

I would plant Japanese Millet it grows well in standing water. Browntop is actually better for well drained soils. If you need a broadcaster you can come borrow mine. I have one that you pull behind a 4 wheeler and one that works on the pto of a tractor. Id say 15-20lbs an acre

Meaux be right. Japanese Millet for duck ponds. Teal and greys luv it!

[specktator]

Originally Posted by MarshRat89

This or G&h sells a waterfowl mix. If you get it in the ground soon you'll be ready for teal season. Most millet takes 60-70 days to mature.


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Yeh that's why I wanna plant it this week. I'm gonna go to Chastant Bros right next to Dink's locksmith shop on Pinhook in Lafayette. They have Japanese and brown top.
Thanks for offering cart Bob. I'm just gonna spread it with some hand spreaders. I don't know how bad mud is going to be out there. Gotta cross a few pirogue ditches that may have a little water in em.

[Quackhead62]

not to hijack the thread but anybody knows of anything that I could throw in a duck pond that can't be drained to give ducks a lil extra food to eat on.

[Duckaholic]

Spec,

I would plant everywhere BUT around my blind. That way there is no doubt that you aren't bush hogging or knocking down any planted seed when making or knocking down the vegetation. That's where most people get in trouble with baiting. They plant then knock it down while making a spot for decoys. Better off not using any planted material around your blind and go natural...

Good safe plan would be to leave an area a tractor pass around your blind un- planted then stir it up. Most don't know the baiting regs, Just saying....

[Super Spook]

Seth, I have found ducks like Japanese millet better in my experience.

Like he said above just plant outside of your pond. We had one field we left as refuge last year because someone planted too close to the blind.

[specktator]

Looks like I'm gonna go with Japanese millet. Thanks for the input guys. And I will stay away from the blind with it.

[Cajunsim]

I have used jap millet, seed rice and sudan sorghum mixes in past with good results in both sprout/stand. Only issue I have had was to put water on sorghum too soon and killed it off. I used 50 lb of 2 of them and hand spread over 4-5 acres with good results (intent is for crawfishing also). Deer love the sudan also-not a bad result.

Chastant sells out of Jap millet pretty quick and does not reorder. GH in kaplan may have. Hanks in Rayne was out. Happy Hunting.

[cgoods17]

if i had a choice and could control my water year around, i would not waste a penny on any kind of seed.......

why not have a variety of food, kind of like a buffet..... WET SOIL MANAGEMENT!!!!!!

[bluewing]

Originally Posted by Quackhead62

not to hijack the thread but anybody knows of anything that I could throw in a duck pond that can't be drained to give ducks a lil extra food to eat on.

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[Paulox86]

Originally Posted by specktator

Looks like I'm gonna go with Japanese millet. Thanks for the input guys. And I will stay away from the blind with it.

Why is everyone so concerned with planting close to the blind? You can hunt planted millet just as long as you hunt planted/grown seed and not broadcasted seed.


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