Pigeos back feeding hard

[Cookiemonsterandmerlin.]

After a couple of slow weeks as the birds have paired up and had a good couple of hours on some linseed drilling .

 

Finnished with 39 in three hours the birds have had a complete change and was really focused on decoying .

 

Now this year I have alot peas to proctect as I have in recent years given the birds a bit of a rest for personnel reasons.

 

But I think this year I will have kick on and protect the 3000 acres of peas.

 

ATB OTH

[proTOM1]

After a couple of slow weeks as the birds have paired up and had a good couple of hours on some linseed drilling .

 

Finnished with 39 in three hours the birds have had a complete change and was really focused on decoying .

 

Now this year I have alot peas to proctect as I have in recent years given the birds a bit of a rest for personnel reasons.

 

But I think this year I will have kick on and protect the 3000 acres of peas.

 

ATB OTH

 

Have over 14 fields of peas and still very few touching them ,most i found late this afternoon on the peas was 80 rest of my fields had just a handfull .

 

They hitting your peas now then ?

[activeviii]

i have peas and linseed next to each other. the peas are up a few inches and the linseed is about an ince. more birds on the linseed.

 

Phil.

[proTOM1]

i have peas and linseed next to each other. the peas are up a few inches and the linseed is about an ince. more birds on the linseed.

 

Phil.

 

 

I have more pigeons on rape and young sugar beat fields ,tho might start seeing them on the peas soon as all my maize strips have no gone and the rape is well up

[Cookiemonsterandmerlin.]

Pea variety seems to be key I have kept a detailed history of crop and variety and bags over the last five years.

 

It makes intresting reading I have found diffrent pea types affect pigeon intrest and the one field that I shot over 5000 from drilling to ploughing in was Genki if I have writen it right is the one that attracts pigeons the most.

 

Others there not so keen on I will have to dig it out for more detail .

 

I have been shooting most of the birds now on white clover and well eated down OSR.

 

Kind regards OTH

[activeviii]

I have a couple of farms that have bear OSR patches so i will have a look at them tomorrow and let the birds build confidence on the linseed. will ask what the pea variety is this year. i have a few on Saturday on the linseed, after opening the crop of 30 birds it was linseed in most with only 2 with pea and 3 with hard maize. half the birds were running on empty.

 

 

 

Phil

[motty]

Hmmm.. I normally have access to around 1200 acres of peas, but i've never really kept a list of which variety i shoot pigeons over, though i have a list. I do know that in certain areas the pigeons will always be on the peas and in others they won't get touched- i'll be making a note of the varieties more now. My farmers generally drill them from the start of march to the end of may, so they're well staggered. I normally start keeping my eye on the peas at about this time- my first bag of any note on peas last year (93) was on may 23rd.