Wildacker
In a Wildacker is a special, from hunters agricultural area worked, with the purpose that in her wild food and cover can be found from enemies.
Reason and goals of wild game farming
The aim of game farming is to offer the game a species-appropriate grazing area , which it can also use to cover and protect against predators and human-made sources of interference. These wild grazing areas are often available in times of the year when other agricultural areas have meanwhile been harvested or have little vegetation (time of need), because the vegetation of the wild fields is usually left standing. This is particularly important in winter and early spring, as the game can then only meet its energy needs with difficulty and has to draw on its own reserves. Wild fields can limit or even make feeding that would otherwise be necessary.
In addition, the prevention - or at least the reduction - of game damage to forests and fields is a further motivation for setting up a game field.
Creation of the wild field
The location of a game field should accommodate the habits of the local game. A distinction is made between wild fields in the forest and those in the field . Wild lands in the forest are usually applied in a sunny, quiet and open location near the area where the wild its debut has. Wild fields in the field should be in areas that are rarely visited by humans (set aside areas, forest edge strips, unprofitable arable land between field wood islands, etc.).
If necessary, the creation of wild grazing areas is subject to restrictions under state law; If necessary, these must be checked beforehand in consultation with the responsible lower hunting authorities . In addition, all nature conservation and water law provisions must be taken into account.
If possible, the soil is tilled and sown with agricultural machines. The addition of fertilizers (nitrate, phosphorus, potassium, etc.) is very important for the palatability, growth and stability of the wild grazing plants and should only be avoided if there are already good nutritional values. A green manure in the form of cover crops , which are sown in Vorherbst for this is another way of improving the soil nutrient. The pH value is increased with lime fertilization.
Typical plants on the Wildacker
In addition to the pure wild grazing plants, those of the catch crops common in agriculture are also suitable. If the plants are to serve as food also in winter, then frost-medium-resistant and frost-hardy plant species should be selected. The cultivation of game fields is preferable to monocultures, because mixtures offer all game species a varied and at least two-year food basis. Depending on the region, there are tried and tested seed mixtures that are particularly suitable for the respective region.
Annual, perennial and perennial plants are suitable for the wild field.
- As annual plants are z. B. corn , oats , buckwheat , mustard, sweet lupine , and marrow stem cabbage .
- Perennial plants (tolerate or need a winter) can be found in perennial rye, winter rape, winter beet etc.
- As perennial plants, for example, permanent lupins , clover (but alexandrine, fenugreek and Persian clover are annual) and Jerusalem artichoke are chosen .
Game species that visit the wild field
The wild field is visited by almost all game species. The bowl game to which, inter alia, the deer , fallow deer , roe deer and wild boar are found primarily here food. Small game species - such as pheasant , partridge or brown hare - find not only specific food but also privacy protection from natural predators. Foxes , martens and other predators hunt their prey spectrum here, which has found itself to feed on the wild field. But also particularly protected animal and plant species in the fields use wild fields as a substitute for extensively used fields. This also applies to stonechats and whinchat , various types of insects, and field herbs that have no chance on the intensively used arable land.
literature
- Jörg Rahn, Revierarbeiten , Blv Buchverlag , 2007, ISBN 978-3-8354-0211-9
- Fritz Nüßlein , The practical handbook for hunting customers , pages: 224, 227, 2006, ISBN 978-3-8354-0020-7
- Hans Elven, Wildäcker and Wildremisen , Düsseldorf, Est-Est-Verlag, 1938
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Aboling, Sabine. 2007. "Importance of wild fields for species protection" published by NLWKN. Nature Conservation Information Service Lower Saxony 27 (2): 109 - 113