Food Plots for Dove

[TexasBob]

Are food plots for Dove legal? I know you can't bait them. I will have access to a place this fall and want to increase my odds of success. Open to any tips on what and when to plant if they are legal. Place has a pond but is not agricultural so no grey area to the rules in that regard.

[Spearchunker]

Watching

I plan to plant for the first time this year. I have 30 acres in Royse City near powerlines and one tank.

Hybrid sunflowers and maze strips.

[7sdad]

Back in the 70's I've "heard" of guys taking a 5 yard dump truck full of maze and spreading it around the field a few days before season. Of course I never seen it myself just something I heard.

[Walker]

It is legal to plant for doves but not legal to spread (bait) for doves. Stupid law. You can plant millet, milo, sesame, what ever you want and enen shred or let the grain run out the back of a combine but you cant spread any by hand or with a feeder. Stupid law..

[Silvey]

I plant about 4 acres of millet and then mow it down around August. Cover crop it called. Perfectly legal.

[Low Fence]

Perfectly legal

Just a tip I’ve learned over the years. If you plant a dove field where there are already good(ish) dove numbers you can really maximize the potential BUT…….

If you think it’s a “build it and they will come” project, I’m here to tell you. You’re wasting time and money. Dove fields are expensive to establish one that is even useable for the bird. You can go on guided hunts for what it cost to plant and “groom” a field

[Low Fence]

Watching

I plan to plant for the first time this year. I have 30 acres in Royse City near powerlines and one tank.

Hybrid sunflowers and maze strips.

You should be in the chips! If you own it, I’d plant native sunflowers and be done with it once and for all!!!

[.243 WSSM]

If you have hogs I would steer clear of milo and millet and lean towards sunflowers and sesame. They will mow that milo and millet down in no time and you wont have any food for the dove left

[Low Fence]

I’d stay away from milo all together it’s hard to grow, and scatter…. And it’s tough on your soil

[Radar]

If you have hogs I would steer clear of milo and millet and lean towards sunflowers and sesame. They will mow that milo and millet down in no time and you wont have any food for the dove left

Dem hogs love sorghum and maize too

[Low Fence]

I planted black oils several times and one year was a bumper crop. About 2 weeks before season a herd of hogs went through the field and ate every single head in the field. Like you took scissors and cut em off. I can’t imagine the calories they consumed in 2 nights. These heads were all 6-7” in seed

[Etxnoodler]

You should be in the chips! If you own it, I’d plant native sunflowers and be done with it once and for all!!!

This is the only way to go in my opinion. A little disturbance every year or 2 and they should come back on their own. Drought tolerant, buy seeds once, don’t need special equipment to plant easily. Light disk or burn. Drop seeds over a longer period of time if you don’t mow them

[LivinADream]

You should be in the chips! If you own it, I’d plant native sunflowers and be done with it once and for all!!!

Where you buying the native seeds?

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[Etxnoodler]

Turner seed sells them. Common native are what you want most likely. If you can get some maximillian going too it will extend seed drop for later season.

[SCHC]

I’ve had good luck with brown top millet. East to plant and grows like a champ.