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I want to work my food plots a little bit this weekend (March 1). I want to throw clover and chicory in some spots that are bare or thin in my 1st year plots. Problem is, I've been seeing birds in these plots. Season opens in MS March 15.

Do you think its too close to season opening to be screwing around in the places I plan to hunt?
 
I don't think so. corn and beans planting comes right in the middle of our turkey season in at least our farms there hasn't been a problem that I know of.
 
I think he is worried about messing up the birds not the legal side of it. im not sure of the legal side is on ms I would look into that to as roost is right in that side of it. my have read it wrong though. tractors don't seem to mess up turkeys or deer. four wheelers may a little but they should be back. I would do it this week if you don't get it in this weekend I wouldn't plant it til I hunted it at least once. but I don't think itll do much harm to them. turkeys love fresh plowed ground or a nice clean field.
 
Plant away, it shouldn't bother them in the least. If anything they will enjoy playing in the fresh dirt. I wouldn't worry at all.

I've hunted them in active timber operations and pine stands which were still on fire after being burned and the birds were doing their normal thing.

Turkeys are very tolerant of human intrusion as long as they feel they aren't in danger it seems.
 
I'm thinking about having a hay field I hunt partially tilled up on one of my leases outside of Springfield to attract turkey. I may wait until the week before opening day. It has crop fields around it and are use to hearing farm machinery. I don't know if it will attract turkey or not, but told it will. Plus, I'll plant a food plot there later.
 
Just be careful when tilling one up and don't leave huge turned over dirt piles. You want to beak it up and somewhat smooth it back out so they can walk and scratch at it. If you leave big clumps and leave it real rough it can have an opposite affect. Those clumps get super hard once wet then dried out and then it's just a pain in the --- to walk on
 
Ren is correct that it needs to be smoothed out for them to like it.

I remembered this afternoon about back in my youth having a place that late one season the farmer turned and drilled a 200 acre field with soybeans. Naturally it rained on it and as they began to germinate I think every bird in the county showed up there. On any given morning there would be 20 different breeding flocks in the field each sticking to their own little fiefdom. Decoys were illegal at the time, so learning to out wit them became an art for me and my buddies. We would watch where they pitched down and dig shallow graves to lay in and covered ourselves in burlap to blend in. Needless to say we had some spectacular hunts.
 
Setterman said:
Plant away, it shouldn't bother them in the least. If anything they will enjoy playing in the fresh dirt. I wouldn't worry at all.

I've hunted them in active timber operations and pine stands which were still on fire after being burned and the birds were doing their normal thing.

Turkeys are very tolerant of human intrusion as long as they feel they aren't in danger it seems.
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I agree, I killed one a few years back that I located as he was shock gobbling at chainsaws and falling trees.
 

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