primos32
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how high on the food list is honeysuckles to deer?
Honeysuckles
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Very good food for winter.
Double wammy. Good food and even better cover. I f you can find a
rather large patch of honeysuckle, you can bet, if there is a
good buck around...he is using it. Winter or not. There seemed to
be larger honeysuckle thickets years ago, but maybe it's just my
imagination.
These type thickets are hard to hunt, but you can find "pockets"
where you can see. Play the wind and be ready at any moment....
all day long. These type areas are sanctuaries to good bucks and they often get up and move around a bit in the middle of the day.
rather large patch of honeysuckle, you can bet, if there is a
good buck around...he is using it. Winter or not. There seemed to
be larger honeysuckle thickets years ago, but maybe it's just my
imagination.
These type thickets are hard to hunt, but you can find "pockets"
where you can see. Play the wind and be ready at any moment....
all day long. These type areas are sanctuaries to good bucks and they often get up and move around a bit in the middle of the day.
CopperHead77
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With last yrs bad acorn crop I saw numerous deer almost everytime I hunted a particular spot,it was overlooking a thicket that was full of honeysuckle,needless to say I spent alot of time there!
BowGuy84
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glad to see this on here. I know the benefits of honeysuckle, but my question is how can you transplant it? I want to get a couple of pockets going on our place to increase the natural browse.
primos32
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this is kinda of why i asked this question because i was thinking bout doing the same thing...
BSK
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In winter, without food plots or agriculture, honeysuckle is at the top of the food preference list.
Unfortunately, transplanting it into a situation with a decent deer density is difficult because they quickly consume the young transplanted vines. Basically, if you don't already have honeysuckle, it is because the deer are preventing it from growing. Honeysuckle is now a plant that grows basically everywhere.
The only way I've seen it successfully transplanted is by puting the core plant behind a wire fence. The deer can then eat just the honeysuckle that grows beyond the fence while the core stock of the plant is protected.
Unfortunately, transplanting it into a situation with a decent deer density is difficult because they quickly consume the young transplanted vines. Basically, if you don't already have honeysuckle, it is because the deer are preventing it from growing. Honeysuckle is now a plant that grows basically everywhere.
The only way I've seen it successfully transplanted is by puting the core plant behind a wire fence. The deer can then eat just the honeysuckle that grows beyond the fence while the core stock of the plant is protected.
BowGuy84
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Thanks for the info. I got some growing on the fenece behind my house that I could move and fence off...we already got a boat load of green briar and black berry.
Stake down some chicken wire over the core plant and let deer eat what grows out of it. It is invasive so if the deer dont keep it ate down to well, you will have alot of it eventually.
