How to Create Rabbit Huts, Grouse Habitat and Turkey Nesting
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- Creating rabbit huts through rabbitat improvements can explode your turkey and grouse numbers all at the same time! Here is how we have been adding to our small game populations #s on the home farm in MN...
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Since I planted switchgrass on my small parcel 5 years ago - my small game and turkey sightings have dramatically increased. Enjoyed your video!
That is great to hear Cris...and a lot of fun too!
Love it! A rabbit sanctuary. How cool is that.thanks Jeff
What weed spray is recommended for switchgrass and wont kill the grass not sure if Par III will work
Simazine for Spring pre emergent
Good luck with all your tree cuttings on your rabbit farm. The few rabbits I have will eat hundred of newly planted trees every year down to nothing
Where do you place rabbit huts in relation to deer bedding?
Hi Brian! They are all in edge habitat...lots of them near die bedding. However, I let the type of habitat best for rabbits and their security dictate where they went, with a priority on the supporting nearby cover of briars, shrubs, downed timber and the availability of hing cut trees.
Do the huts help protect the rabbits from foxes?
Yes...and especially birds of prey!
I miss my small game hunting
. I spend so much time in a treestand hunting deer that killiing squirrels and rabbits has gone by the way side. Time to get back to my roots a few times a year.
Dude, this is awesome!! I want rabbits, turkey, and grouse!!
Thanks a lot Mike...man it's an enjoyable process to!
I have some rabbits on my property I have been seeing I’m gonna put some huts out for them so they can stay around longer
I grow up hunting rabbit over beagles, loved that time outdoors with Grandpa!
Amen Jim! Such precious memories!
Nice! You have encouraged me to making two on former videos. I have four pallets, currently, and plan to make my next one soon. My wife and I enjoy sitting out on the front deck, drinking a cup of morning coffee, all while enjoying all our wildlife. Thanks for all you help and knowledge, Jeff!
Nice Terry that is awesome to hear! We do too...very enjoyable 😊
I’m guessing I already have great rabbit habitat because they are everywhere. They have already killed so many fruit trees that I bought and planted chewing the bark in the winter. At dusk to dawn, there might be 8-12 in my yard. I consider them a nuisance. Can I ship you a boatload of rabbits? lol
Haha...ship away! They are great food for predators!
I'm trying to put a screen up along a power line on my property. I can't put any tree that gets too tall as the power company comes every few years and cuts back anything close to the lines. I was thinking miscanthus giganteus as its pretty cheap and makes a thick screen. Does miscanthus offer any type of habitat for rabbits and other small game?
It can be escape cover but no food or browse. Great choice! Make sure 3 to 4 rows...2 to 3' spacing
YES, I remember my first pellet gun, squirrels didn't stand a chance, rabbits oh my did it take work to harvest that rascally rabbit. Your right Jeff those were the days
Man...they sure were!
Jeff, any advice on how close you can place the pallet stacks to each other and still benefit from each one? For example, I have a sloped strip full of briars and scrub trees about 200' long, would it be excessive to make 3-4 piles on that strip?
Crazy how bad of a winter you had, Jeff. Here in WV, it was the second warmest on record with essentially no snow to speak of.
Crazy RS! We've been in awe of folks mushroom hunting already 😊
love your channel I learned alot about setting up my property, what do you do about your neighbors illegally baiting..( and its not just a little either) its illegal to bait in our state
Hi Ray...I would happily turn them in 😊
I’m about 20 mins from your place Jeff and have seen 5 timber rattlers in the past 4 years. I have the same opinion as you about them. - Great video
Family is such a huge part of land ownership! A bit envious here. It’s been a month since I’ve been on our land!
For sure Len...well at least you aren't missing much right now with all of that snow you guys have on your land!
Great video definitely enjoy these if they ever remake Of Mice And Men you are LENNY loves to tend the rabbits
Haha...thanks Craig!
Just got 15 pallets to put in the woods and cuttings on order, love your content! Curious what you recommend doing with stands of paper birch and black locust?
Thanks Jeff, made 3 last week didn’t hinge cut just threw a bunch of limbs over top. Hope it works
Brilliant! Thanks, Jeff!!
You are very welcome!
Question. On my 100 acre lease in GA mountains we have a lot of Coyote sightings. So, would increasing rabbitat influence more coyote activity?
This is the pertinent question. I sure as hell don't need anymore of a reason to attract coyotes.
What are your favorite wildlife conifers?
Great video WHS team!
Thank you very much Hunter!
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Thx, great idea & well done
Thank you very much!
Thanks Jeff!
You are welcome Isaac!
I have deer hiding thier fawns in my brush piles made with pallets.
That's pretty cool!
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 thank you! I thought so too!
Great content 👍
What jacket are you wearing, if you don't mind me asking sir?