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I EMERGENCY FEEDING cloth is sufficient. However, if the corn is III cracked or contains a mixture of screenings, With good planning and extensive use of a double wrap of the hardware cloth will be food plots and feeder-cribs at key sites, needed. emergency feeding of pheasants is usually As shelled corn feeders are very prone to not necessary. However, there are sometimes tip, they should be secured to posts, fences additional scattered flocks that could use or small trees if at all possible. some help, and during severe winters some Shelled corn also works very well spread emergency feeding may be desirable. on the ground at a site, such as a farmstead, The best way to handle these situations is to where the corn can be conveniently make small cylinders of woven-wire fencing replenished every few days. Usually, such (about 20" in diameter) and fill them with ear flocks have a relatively bare spot where they already have been observed scratching for corn. Shelled corn is often the only type of corn food. Spread some shelled corn at this site, that is readily available for an emergency and keep adding to it as it becomes feeding program. Shelled corn is more necessary. In such a location it is important to keep distributing the food at that same site as difficult to use because it is so easily covered the birds will keep looking for it there. With by blowing snow. One system that worked this system, set out just a little corn at the well during the winter of the 1983-84 feeder program was to make a 20" cylinder of 1/2" beginning, and theni keep adding to it. If all hardware cloth. If the corn is of good quality, the corn is dumped at the beginning, it may a single wrap or thickness of the hardware be buried by snow and never found by the IIIbirds. %` of r,:, { vr, 7 , t . : ` , 4.0,:'..;‘, 5�, •,v,''• Remember, the feeder-crib is a �y f management tool to be used . -� g y 9�5aM c, P. l+ � ` each and every year when a , a+ ,,..k.4.,; food plot cannot bb provided. �, .,, i yr-i*i:40 Arr. - ,_a, .c. tin-t 4'' v l"S. �d., to ,e ' < Fi. -r#,,,, w RR ti, As these smaller feeder-cribs are very prone to tipping over, secure them to posts, fences This brochure was produced with the or small trees if at all possible. Placement of cooperative efforts of the Section of Wildlife emergency feeders should be at the same and the Bureau of Information and type of sites described for feeder-cribs. Education. III