Food Source question

[Gobblechicken4]

I am considering and planning my 2024 deer and turkey food plot plan and was wondering if Turkey will eat sunflower seeds?

I am considering sunflowers and milo instead of corn planting due to price. If I do that, and the plants remain through the summer/next winter and into the spring, will turkey eat the falling seeds?

Thanks in advance?

[Greg Massey]

Plant clover... will last several years if maintained ....

[Notsoyoungturk]

Turkeys will eat sunflowers, milo, millet, sorghum, chufa, et... but Greg is right.  Deer and Turkey both love clover and it is a lot less work.  If, however, there is a lot of clover around, your seeds will provide something new and desirable.  One man's opinion; it and $1.70 will get you a cup of coffee at McDonalds (or just drink diet coke like me).

[Gobblechicken4]

Thanks for the replies. I'll defiantly have clover in my rotation. What i have is that I've recently pulled about 20 acres from row crop production and will be putting in a mix of native warm season grasses and varieties of food sources.

THats why I'm look at some other- less common to me options as well.

[St. Augustine Strutter]

Turkeys will eat sunflowers, milo, millet, sorghum, chufa, et... but Greg is right.  Deer and Turkey both love clover and it is a lot less work.  If, however, there is a lot of clover around, your seeds will provide something new and desirable.  One man's opinion; it and $1.70 will get you a cup of coffee at McDonalds (or just drink diet coke like me).

Is there a particular type of clover that turkeys prefer over others? 

[Greg Massey]

Turkeys will eat sunflowers, milo, millet, sorghum, chufa, et... but Greg is right.  Deer and Turkey both love clover and it is a lot less work.  If, however, there is a lot of clover around, your seeds will provide something new and desirable.  One man's opinion; it and $1.70 will get you a cup of coffee at McDonalds (or just drink diet coke like me).

Is there a particular type of clover that turkeys prefer over others?

We plant Ladino clover and some red clover ... Ladino is the best for our area ... Whitetail Institute ... Clover .... 

[WV Flopper]

 GD

[Kylongspur88]

Plant sunflowers for the doves, clover for turkeys. More often then not when I cut open a turkey to see what's he's been eating there's clover in there.

[St. Augustine Strutter]

Turkeys will eat sunflowers, milo, millet, sorghum, chufa, et... but Greg is right.  Deer and Turkey both love clover and it is a lot less work.  If, however, there is a lot of clover around, your seeds will provide something new and desirable.  One man's opinion; it and $1.70 will get you a cup of coffee at McDonalds (or just drink diet coke like me).

Is there a particular type of clover that turkeys prefer over others?

We plant Ladino clover and some red clover ... Ladino is the best for our area ... Whitetail Institute ... Clover ....

Thanks, I am located in South Georgia and would like to get some clover plots started.  One type of clover i have read about turkeys liking is Durana.  I believe it is a type of white clover that has smaller leaves.

Any experience with that?

[g8rvet]

I planted a mix of forage oats and crimson clover on one side of my 3 acre field.  Millet on the other for dove.  The millet is now down and the turkeys did come in to it a few times.  The oats are up now and the clover started before it turned cool.  My plan is to mow the oats in the spring to allow the crimson to grow through.  I will watch the reseed rate next fall and will either do it again (if not enough established clover). I hunted a place for years that he only redid every 3 years or so.  Always had early spring crimson and the turkeys loved it. I have killed birds on that property that looked like they had stuffed a spinach salad in the their crop.

My plan is to broadcast the oats again in September, then mow the clover.  After you spread the seed and then mow it, the mowed clover keeps in moisture and allows the seed to grow.