Chinkapins?

[big rockpile]

Anyone ever try raising Chinkapins here in Missouri for Deer and Game?

big rockpile

[Old Vet]

I have tried but they don't produce good. The Arkansas Forestry Commision uset to put out a pack for the game and fish for food plots. Usualy they contained 5 each of plums two types of oak (Red and White) Pecan walnuts and lespedisa. Now all I need is the deer to eat them.

[big rockpile]

Well the ones I'm thinking of getting are 3-6 foot tall already.Hoping they will draw more Game than what I already have.

big rockpile

[Old Vet]

I live in northern Arkansas just south of Harrison. The chinkipins here do not produce well except for this year. They are good for attracting animals if they produce. I live along the Buffalo River and there are some along it that sometimes produce but they are also many animals that will eat them before they are ripe.

[WolfWalksSoftly]

Originally Posted by big rockpile

Well the ones I'm thinking of getting are 3-6 foot tall already.Hoping they will draw more Game than what I already have.

big rockpile

The trick to attracting Deer, is to get one of those Deer Crossing signs, and put it up where your property meets the road

[gran26]

A few years ago we tried something called "Chinese Chestnut". These seemed to resemble the chinkipins my dad talked about growning in northern Arkansas when he was growing up in the 20's. They produced abundantly. However, the thorny outer shells
caused havoc on lawnmower tires and bare feet. We did not care for the taste and
eventually got rid of the trees.

The squirrels loved them tho.

[EDDIE BUCK]

Around here there are a few chinkapin bushes but they never get larger because somekind of blight or disease keeps killing them back to the ground. If you happen to find a bush with the nuts on it the squirrels haven't found it yet but when they do its a hot spot for hunting them. Eddie
http://www2.volstate.edu/jschibig/ozark_chinkapin.htm

[Randy Rooster]

Ive got a chinkapin tree behind my house thats probably 20 feet tall and is loaded with nuts this year. Ive been wondering if they were human edible?

Eddie- Yours have probably got the Chestnut blight that has about wiped out all the eeastern forest chestnuts. The two trees are closely related. im sort of worried mine might have the blight as I see a couple of branches have died back this year.

[big rockpile]

Originally Posted by WolfWalksSoftly

The trick to attracting Deer, is to get one of those Deer Crossing signs, and put it up where your property meets the road

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[texican]

They're extinct around here... I remember eating them up through high school... they were very sweet meated... what I'd do to have a grove of them...