well, planted chufas in 2 spots, about 1 acre total for the first time 3 weeks ago. Made the trek to spray weeds this wknd, showed up to first plot and it looked like a desert. No weeds, no chufa, just a tremendous amount of turkey tracks, scratchings, and droppings. LOTS of turkey sign, but they hammered the chufas.

Went to the other plot on the other side of property and had roughly half the plot still standing in chufa. i sprayed them but ray charles could have seen the scratchings and tracks in this plot too. It looked like they just found them and were hitting them hard too. I pulled up some and they had nuts under them. I bet the remaining ones dont stand a chance of lasting more than another week.

I was hoping some would last in tot he spring but the pea brained birds aint gonna let that happen

Least you got turkeys! I'm not sure we even have any birds anymore. Never had many.

What was in the plots before? That's incredible that the hit you that hard on a new chufa plot. I'd plant again.

nothing, one was just a field we never plant the the other was an end of a fall deer food plot

Had the same thing happen to me 2 years in a row, planted 2 fields and they were destroyed by September

Sounds terrible

My uncle planted a 4 acre field of them with a row planter. Never seen a hog there until that summer. A hog will find a row and walk it out 400 yards. He said it looked like it had been chisel plowed

Chufa growers live a tough life. There's no solution I know of for turkeys eating the seed.

racoons got mine. quarter acre field totally gone in a week. The few plants that still had them you could see the small bb size nuts on the roots. Dang coons. time to break out the coon cuffs!!!