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EEDER-CRIBS area simple way to provide a reliable food source next to existing cover. Added to a wintering , • - , :.....o&. .....,,r,e} a tit** site, cribs can do much to help pheasants ems-.. , meet the challenges of winter. ,.; To successfully compete with winter's $ �' 'y..7 temperatures and snows, pheasants must ,,,,.,w_o- ' have dense natural cover, a reliable food ' ..tp •«,1 w source and minimum disturbance. The J ,., =f• ' Iv-. "� ,, , �Ii i'x� winter cover preferred by the birds is usually :-'t t• , : ` ,. ' a large marsh with tall emergent vegetation. r - • " �!',# If the wintering site also has planted woody -, ' �' ' ; -,, cover to help keep the snow out of the marsh, _ - ' ` "' it is even better. Pheasants will also use ''a► '.r,, • r,•• _= shelterbelts or woody cover plantings. The ..�'� .•'>: �; r.; most attractive plantings have at least ten `�;; `' 4; . `t rows of trees with four rows of conifer on the south and east sides. The plantings should be L 4_ • one to three acres in size and at least 15 years old. Location is important—an open windswept The preferred winter pheasant foods are site adjacent to a marsh or ten row shelterbelt 0 corn, soybeans, sunflowers, sorghum or is ideal. other small grains. The best way to provide food is with a planted and managed food plot. If for some reason a food plot is not possible, a feeder-crib, preferably filled with ear corn, can be used as an alternate food CONSTRUCTION DETAILS source. Feeder-cribs, although useful for emergency feeding, have proven their Feeder cribs are very simple to construct. Theyconsist of a 12 foot length of 39 inch 9 greatest worth as an annual management woven-wire fencing with six inch stays tool. They should be used at suitable sites each and ever ear. formed into a cylinder. With a diameter of Y Y about four feet and filled with ear corn, this crib is sufficient to feed 30 pheasants for 120 LOCATION IS THE KEY days. The crib design helps prevent the corn from being buried by snow and reduces scattering of the corn by pheasants and other Feeder-cribs work best when placed in an animals. The cribs are large enough to hold open, windswept area adjacent to a large about 20 bushels of ear corn, which reduces marsh or other secure winter cover. Such the need for'constant refilling. This locations make it easy for the birds to find the woven-wire cylinder is then stapled to a 4' x crib and tend to prevent the crib from being 4' wood platform,. The platform is placed on buried by blowing snow. A high spot with a some old blocks, stones„old fence posts, southern exposure is ideal. etc., to keep it a few inches off of the ground.