By Chris Hitzeman | April 13, 2012
What's the recipe for a great spring pheasant hatch? 1 Cup of warm dry fall, dose of warm dry winter and sprinkle in a smidgen of warm dry spring. Walla, a wonderful dish of increased pheasant numbers!
By Chris Hitzeman | January 23, 2012
If you live or know anyone in or near the midwest of the country you'll know that the winter of 2011-2012 has been one of the most mild winters on record. On January 5th Armour South Dakota logged a 70 degree high temperature. 1 degree short of the record high. The same week Minneapolis clocked in a record 52 degree high temp. One for the books.
By Chris Hitzeman | October 11, 2011
Just when you'd thought you'd seen it all, as far as weather goes in South Dakota, it does a 180 on you again. In the last 2 weeks I have spent more time at the farm and also talking with UGUIDE Pheasant Camp Owners about the upcoming season. I also got to ride in a John Deere combine for the very first time. On Oct. 1, while mowing some edges of CRP fields, I saw a week old pheasant that could barely fly. It looked more like a chick than poult. I saw another brood of 8-10 birds that had no coloer on them whatsoever.
By Chris Hitzeman | September 20, 2011
SD GFP Road Counts are out...Down, Down, Down....Now what?
It's been 2 months since our last report in July. Much has transpired since then. I had to finish mowing my new CRP blocks the first week in August and I would say without a doubt that that week I have seen the most birds on the roads and in the CRP cover all summer. Even as a landowner out working habitat on your farm it remains difficult to assess real bird numbers due to all the cover available for young broods to escape into.
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U-GUIDE South Dakota Pheasant HuntingTM, also a habitat organization, proudly supports Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever in its efforts to improve and sustain wildlife habitat around the country.
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