Duck

Type: warm season annual mixture Wildlife Dealers

Uses: Many waterfowl species will benefit from habitat improvements like supplemental plantings. These same habitat improvements will also attract more mallard duck, the most popular and most sought after water fowl species in the U.S. Cover, food and shallow water are the basic habitat requirements needed for good waterfowl management. Ducks are mostly herbivores, characterized as grazers and seed eaters, and have diverse diets of grasses, forbs, seeds, fruits, acorns, cultivated crops and aquatic plants. Food plantings of seed producing plants around the edges and in waterfowl impoundments can provide excellent food and habitat for waterfowl.

Pennington's WingMaster Duck Mixture is a combination of seed (including Japanese millets, Proso millet, Buckwheat, and Grain Sorghum) which produce plants that will make an excellent food source for ducks. . Planting food along water edges, in the impoundments, or in low areas that will flood during the winter are excellent ways to increase habitat and hold more birds on your property. Pennington's Duck Mixture is tolerant of some flooding, however water should be held off until plants are fully mature or about 80 days after germination. For dabbling ducks or puddle ducks that feed in shallow water, levels should be kept in the range of 6" to 18" inches deep once flooding occurs.

Some practical pond management such as thinning or removing non-mast crop trees along the water's edge could help to increase sunlight exposure to the soil thus increasing natural food supplies from seed-producing weed and grass plants. Also carefully controlling water levels in waterfowl impoundments helps provide good growth for your supplemental food source and encourage natural food supplies to grow. Waterfowls are federally regulated migratory birds, and you should pay close attention to federal and state regulations regarding field management.

Planting Date: April - July
Rate: 40 lbs. covers one acre or 1 lb./1000 sq. ft.
Depth: 1/4"

Best For: Duck, Dove, Pheasant, Rabbit, Quail

40 lb. bag $51.95

Best For: Deer, Turkey, Duck, Dove, Pheasant, Rabbit, Quail

Plants 1 Acre

Uses: The mourning dove is a migratory game bird that has four basic habitat needs: food, cover, water and grit. These habitat needs must be met to produce more local nesting birds and to attract migratory birds during the season. With the popularity of dove hunting on the rise, hunting clubs and field managers are seeking ways to compete with nearby fields. Planning, understanding the birds and providing necessary habitat will go a long way toward having a successful hunt. Doves also need a water source within one mile of their food source. In addition doves need grit (small bits of gravel and larger grains of sand) in their diets to help grind food in the gizzard. Gravel roads and roadsides are a perfect location for birds to find this grit. Doves are seed eaters with about 99% of their diet in late summer and fall made up of seed. Pennington's WingMaster Dove Mixture is a combination of small seeded millet, grain sorghum and sunflower that will provide a plentiful supply of seed for doves. This seed combination will mature in a staggered effect with some plants producing seed in as little as 60 days while others take 110 days. It is important to plant WingMaster Dove mixtures no later than May 15 so the plants will have time to mature and shatter seed. Later plantings or time-delayed plantings are preferred if late season hunts and additional field manipulation is required.

Planting
Date: April - July
Rate: 40 lbs. covers one acre or 1 lb./1000 sq. ft.
Depth: ¼"

Best For: Deer, Turkey, Duck, Dove, Pheasant, Rabbit, Quail

40 lb. bag $42.95

Best For: Turkey, Duck, Dove, Pheasant, Rabbit, and Quail

Plants 1 Acre

Type: warm season annual mixture

Uses: Want more quail? Provide habitat for brood-rearing, nesting, loafing, roosting, and protection from predators and inclement weather and they will come. Food plots that produce open ground at chick level with overhead cover make ideal areas for quail chicks to be effective insect predators. With over 90% of chicks' diets made up of high protein insects its first few weeks of life, insect producing areas are critical to their survival. In addition, a healthy quail population will need a good supply of seed producing plants to provide a consistent year round food supply. Pennington's WingMaster Quail Mixture is a combination of seed producing plants that will provide an excellent food source, cover, and brood-rearing areas. These seed producing plants include White Proso millet, Browntop millet, Sunflower, Japanese Millet, and Orchardgrass.. Throughout the late spring and summer months WingMaster Quail mixture will be producing seed for foraging quail. In a staggered effect, this seed mixture will have plants maturing and dropping seed to the ground over a long period of time. From about 60 days after germination in early summer and extending into the winter, WingMaster will provide an abundant supply of seed.

Planting
Date: April to June
Rate: 40 lbs. covers one acre or 1 lb./1000 sq ft.
Depth: ¼"

Best For: Turkey, Duck, Dove, Pheasant, Rabbit, and Quail

40 lb. bag $46.95