Planting a Beaver Swamp with Rice for Ducks

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Planting a Beaver Swamp with Rice for Ducks | A Family Tradition

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We bring the kids along for the annual "Planting of the Rice". We plant a drained beaver pond with pre-soaked agricultural rice. Come along with us!

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@terryporche9059 13 күн бұрын

Great job with kids going along to help.

@waveoglesby2920 Ай бұрын

I’m hoping to plant rice next year in one of my impoundments. I live just west of Raleigh so I enjoy following you and all your hard work!

@Yellowlab247_NC_Outdoors Ай бұрын

Do it! Thanks for following along

@cervus-venator Ай бұрын

Very cool. I see you were really hot from all of that work. Re-ding my brown top today about killed me as I spread it with a bag spreader this time. That was a lot of walking in the hot sun.

@Yellowlab247_NC_Outdoors Ай бұрын

Was overcast for most of the work but sun popped out at the end and it was hot! Good luck with the millet! Finally got some rain

@bobcostas1331 Ай бұрын

Hi - river seed refuge sells pre soaked rice. They say it needs keep cold in the water. Do you cool your water when you soak?

@Yellowlab247_NC_Outdoors Ай бұрын

This is Ag rice, very different than the wild rice that River Refuge sells. Their rice has to be cold soaked to break dormancy, this does not. We only soak to speed up germination. I am learning that water seeding it dry is easier and works just as good as presoaking, if not better. Thanks for watching!

@WorkingManOutdoors Ай бұрын

How wrapped up in red bugs and ticks were yall when you got done? I have to go out in long pants treated in Permethin or I get wrapped up every time! Good job though, been thinking about doing this. We are in NC also

@Yellowlab247_NC_Outdoors Ай бұрын

None reported! We have a good path in there and once you’re in the swamp it’s not bad. I got Rocky Mountain fever a month ago from a tick in Chatham county, that sucked

@WorkingManOutdoors Ай бұрын

@@Yellowlab247_NC_Outdoors Had that before, do not endorse! LOL

@josephcioni5293 Ай бұрын

Do wild hogs impact rice or would you not recommend rice if you have hogs?

@Yellowlab247_NC_Outdoors Ай бұрын

No idea but if I had to guess they will make a mess of it! Deer don’t seem to mess with it and neither do the coons.

@nathanielchoate69 Ай бұрын

I have volunteer millet out competing my rice. Is there anything I can do or will the rice still grow?

@Yellowlab247_NC_Outdoors Ай бұрын

Ah man that's tough. Millet is going to grow a lot faster and may win the day. I am not versed in rice herbicides, but I am betting there is not much that kills millet but not rice unless it is a Clearfield variety of rice. I could be wrong

@nathanielchoate69 Ай бұрын

@@Yellowlab247_NC_Outdoors gotcha. Thanks. I’m just gonna let nature take its course and see what happens. I’ll probably spray the volunteer millet next year with roundup before I plant rice if the rice doesn’t end up doing too well

@Yellowlab247_NC_Outdoors Ай бұрын

@@nathanielchoate69 Seed is seed if it will all produce, good luck !