milky Barley

[Harnser]

Had a drive around the farms today and saw that two of the early drilled winter Barley fields are just going milky . Shouldnt be long before the birds start to drop in for a feed .

 

Harnser .

[UKPoacher]

I was in Cyprus last week and they were already harvesting barley. The rape was already gone. A few of the smaller barley fields were being cut by hand and the barley was being stored in sheaves. The pigeons swarmed allover it once the workers had left.

[bullet1747]

Ive been shooting over some peas (sat under some oak trees), this is backed up to a barley field do pigeons wait till they have cut the barley or wen its just about ripe

[Whitebridges]

Looking at this from a shooting point of view, yes it's nice to shoot over a bit of laid.

Most of it these days is short in the stem and thick as yer wrist. Stands straight and is rigid as a fence post, even in huge torrents of rain and hurricanes. Progress.

[Cookiemonsterandmerlin.]

I think like whitebridges that laid corn is rare now with the short stem of the new crops.

 

Its got to be nearly 10 years since a I have shot a decent bag over laid anythink .

 

Bullet its when its milky and soft tends to be the first two weeks of june in the south the birds will find high pylons and search for flat patchs or tramlines.

 

Kind regards OTH

[M ROBSON]

It's got a lot to do with how much Nitrogen is put down on the field. We get a lot of farmers spreading cow manure on their own fields. We normally get a good few blown patches every year, and occasionally we get a whole field laid! But then we can get some good wet and windy weather up here!

 

It's at least 4 weeks away for us yet!

 

Mark.

[yickdaz]

Ive been shooting over some peas (sat under some oak trees), this is backed up to a barley field do pigeons wait till they have cut the barley or wen its just about ripe

you get pigeons on any patches that go over with rain and wind when the barley and wheat heads have formed properly and will feed on it until it is harvested.they love the wheat especially when it has that green tinge to it because it is soft and milky like m robson has said about barley and easy to digest and feed to any young birds on the nest had 100 bags on green laid wheat almost yearly.

[magman]

No Barley for me this year but plenty of wheat so will have to wait a few weeks longer for the fun to begin :blink:

[activeviii]

i have just been over one of he farms and one filed out of the 4 has gone flat. big areas and its just starting to change colour with the milky goodness coming though. the peas on the other farm are about the size of barley grains so i might be spoilt for choice.

 

Phil

[bigt1754]

I've been winding my farmer mate for ages that if the rain doesn't flatten some of his barley, I'm going out with the crop circle machine. :hmm: :hmm:

 

He said he's put loads of grow regulator on, but its still nearly 5 feet in places

 

 

Bigt