Planting oats?

[Sam McMichael]

I'm doing this backwards by asking advice after I have already sown the grain. Last year, I added lime and fertilizer but never planted anything. Yesterday, I harrowed and put out the oats. Will They produce enough to maybe help in late season in December? If not, at least it will help over the winter. Do I need to cover the seeded area with hay? I can imagine a lot of it being eaten by birds without it. As you can guess, I am not a farmer.

Lastly, why did hard work not leave me as a young guy with such a sore back? That tractor should be named Teddy Roosevelt, because it is a rough riding SOB!
 

[Pat B]

I use an old cyclone fence gate to drag over newly planted seeds to cover them. This will help keep the birds from eating them all.
 

[Friend]

After my oats are coming up and visual bare areas, I oversees with winter wheat.

When not overseeding with winter wheat, the deer  would crop the oats to the ground and I would have a dirt foodplot from March until planting a fall season plot. Now my foodplots are attractive  all season.