Will Pheasants Eat Milo?

I sent my husband to get birdseed yesterday saying I want millet for the ground birds and he got the cheap mix that is maybe 5% sunflower with an equal mix of millet, cracked corn, and milo. Much of this is not being eaten in spite of the cold. :( I will try to get the better stuff next time we're out, but wonder, will pheasants eat this type of mix? If so, I will place it along the fence line, where we've seen them recently.

I meant to tack on this photo of one of our visitors. :)

According to 'Ask.com', pheasants are one of the few birds that apparently relish milo along with turkeys (I assume they mean wild turkeys) and doves.

Just on a whim, I did an e-search for your query and the first site to pop up answered your exact question. I guess that if one can remember to do a search, meaning ME, the answers are out there for a variety of stuff. Not as much fun as an answer from a experienced bird watcher but what the heck, now we both know something new... now, if I just had some wild pheasants to test it on but not very likely in my suburban neighborhood. :o(
Steve

That is good to know. One of the children went out today and saw all those red seeds on the ground. Our Morning Doves do not come much in the winter, so hopefully those Pheasants will come by and fill up.

About posting what I could have looked up, I enjoy getting an answer from forum members I trust. For some reason, I always think of this site first.

Every statement on the internet is going to have an equal and opposite statement staring back at you. :) It was especially bad when we had a bird mite invasion. All that crazy info out there. So you know what I did? Wrote a blog post, adding more noise to the cacophony. :) But within my post, I told people to do what I should have done to begin with, call my local extension office. I sure hope people take that advice, because it is by far one of my most visited posts, getting hits nearly every day even in the winter months. I wrote that in the summer of 2012.

And I got way off topic here.

OT is ok by me and the 'looked it up on the internet' comment applied to me as I usually forget that there is information out there if I can just remember to do the search...
As to doves, I have all three of the most common species at my feeders year round and I don't believe I've found much of anything they WON'T eat although... the Mourning Doves seem to be the most timid while the White Wings seem to be the biggest bullies with the Eurasian's falling somewhere in between the other two. Quite frankly, I think I'm having trouble attracting other feathered visitors simply because of the overwhelming dove population locally.
Steve

I am having the same problems with doves. Too many Eurasian - I ran out of corn, so they emptied the other feeder with better seed in just a couple of hours this morning, then knocked it over and rolled it around. And I have one white-winged, it and the squirrels are the only things that stand up to the Eurasian. I am going to try different food in different feeders. Squirrel chow furthest away, cracked corn for doves next, black sunflower seeds & suet closer in, and nyjer & water right up next to the house.

Pollen, How about two bird baths? One close and one all the way out to the furtherest feeder.

Well, the furthest feeder would end up being closer to my neighbors Koi pond. I figure the outcasts can drink there - and the neighbors are the ones that started feeding the blasted squirrels in the first place!

LOL

Have any of you tried those feeders that only allow small birds in? It does exclude Jays and Cardinals, though.

No Cardinals here & the Blue Jays would probably prefer the Squirrel food, so they would be less likely to come to the seed for small birds anyway. I don't have one of the feeders that excludes birds by weight. Some wire that excludes them by size would be easy to do - but would interfere with photography. Plus a lot of my birds are types that prefer to feed on the ground or table top. I don't think they would like exclusive feeders.