neil Posted October 6, 2003 Report Share Posted October 6, 2003 The day didnt start to well,i woke up a bit late but once i rushed around a bit it got a bit better .I,ve been working on farm all day about 10 miles away from home,at about 10 o clock the farmer brought me out a cup of tea and we got chatting,as we talked a flock of about 100 rooks landed in a field of maize that had just been cut one thing lead to another and the bottom line is i've got another farmer to add to the list,his words were "come up whenever you like,dont worry about phoning just carry on" B) .He farms veg basically, cauliflower, lettuce broccoli,potatoes etc etc.Apparently his big problems are pigeons and rabbits (has anyone decoyed over lettuce??) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red_stag88 Posted October 6, 2003 Report Share Posted October 6, 2003 Drama, English, Physics, Chemestry, History, English, Maths, Biology, Prep. I know what i would rather be doing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil Posted October 7, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2003 A self employed electricians life is full of exitement one way or another red stagg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M ROBSON Posted October 7, 2003 Report Share Posted October 7, 2003 Neil We have several farms that have alot of Brocolli and Cauliflower. They can provide some steady shooting during the slow months of May and June. The birds tend to hit the plants when they are 6" high and the new shoots are coming up. They will go back to the same plants each day and eat the shoots till you are left with a patch of stumpy plants while the rest are fully grown, if left unchecked they can cause alot of damage. A magnet and a couple of flappers are all you need on the large plants. rgds Mark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil Posted October 10, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 10, 2003 Thanks for the advice Mark,Have you ever shot over lettuce?apparently they have had problems in the past so i will watch and see what happens (i'm not sure if they go for the young plants or the mature ones) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M ROBSON Posted October 11, 2003 Report Share Posted October 11, 2003 Sorry Neil none of the farms we shoot grow lettuce. The farms in our area that do tend to grow it under polythene until it gets to a good size then uncover it. There are always balloons to scare the birds off after that so I've never actually seen many birds on lettuce fields. I dare say they would eat it given half a chance, although you may find your farmer friend is being a bit over protective of his high cash crop and the "problems" may only be a handful of birds. rgds Mark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teal Posted October 11, 2003 Report Share Posted October 11, 2003 Thanks for the advice Mark,Have you ever shot over lettuce?apparently they have had problems in the past so i will watch and see what happens (i'm not sure if they go for the young plants or the mature ones) Hi neil, lettuce has virtually no nutritional value, so from a pigeons point of view it would make sense them eating something higher in energy (proteins carbohydrates even fats like the oil in oilseed rape which is some of the best food for energy) Following this principle I would highly doubt seeing pigeons eating lettuce, it'd be like them eating grass, they could but it would be pretty pointless. For grass I think the problem is there stomach doesn't has the capability to digest it, even rabbits and horses - which always eat grass -don't digest grass properly and so don't get the full energy from it, cows are the only true masters of it of course If this guy says he's had problems it may be that the pigeons are eating 'weeds' using a broad term for any other plants which are growing amongst the main lettuce crop. He's probably more worried about them sh*tting on it. They always say rabbits like lettuce, but I've never had any lettuce fields to know if this is true. Its probably a beatrice potter myth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil Posted October 11, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2003 thanks both of you,you are probably right,i'vegot to go oversometime next week to have a walk/drive round with him as he has a couple of footpaths etc,so i will quiz him a bit more and keep you posted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammergun Posted October 12, 2003 Report Share Posted October 12, 2003 William - Rabbits do get the full nutritional value from grass. They are **** eaters!!!! They eat their own ***** to get the benefit of digested food. Their gut produces two types of ****, the hard droppings we see scattered around, and also the soft pellets eaten directly from the anus. This is known as "coprophagy". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Columbus Polumbus Posted October 12, 2003 Report Share Posted October 12, 2003 HG is right, the pellets are white first time round, anyone for rabbit stew??? I dont think I get enough nutritional value from my steak an kidneys pies first time, I always need two but hell I am not going to start on the path to human coprophagy........... no bloody way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teal Posted October 12, 2003 Report Share Posted October 12, 2003 William - Rabbits do get the full nutritional value from grass. They are **** eaters!!!! They eat their own ***** to get the benefit of digested food. Their gut produces two types of ****, the hard droppings we see scattered around, and also the soft pellets eaten directly from the anus. This is known as "coprophagy". Cool thanks for telling me that!! Gross, but cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammergun Posted October 12, 2003 Report Share Posted October 12, 2003 The soft pellets I have seen weren't white, but rather similar in colour to what you get after eating a Korma curry and several pints of lager!! I remember seeing a little girl getting her nose licked by a pet rabbit once, which she soon stopped when I told here where its tongue had been!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red_stag88 Posted October 14, 2003 Report Share Posted October 14, 2003 My labradors have a tendancy to eat horse and cow ****. :lol: Any one esle noticed this. No we dont starve them before you ask. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAMMER BURT Posted October 14, 2003 Report Share Posted October 14, 2003 my dogs will eat any kind of **** that they find just a dog thing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Columbus Polumbus Posted October 14, 2003 Report Share Posted October 14, 2003 Mine too, as I understand it there is still a lot of nutrition left in horse **** and my dogs love it, it can be a sign of nutritional deficiency if they have just started doing it, otherwise just don't let them lick you face Must be different grass HG but I must say when I said white, it was for descriptive purposes only they wouldn't be Dulux white or anything like that. Can't remember the last time I saw a rabbit in my local or curry house tho'......................... seen plenty of FOXY chicks tho' that I would like to donate some of my off white tincture to ............................. alas the boy is just dreamin again!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leon Posted October 14, 2003 Report Share Posted October 14, 2003 Col Pol you need a good sixteen year old to sort you out mate! Can't you talk your missus into getting a secertary? you could do the interviews!!! jsut a thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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