JDog Posted June 25, 2014 Report Share Posted June 25, 2014 For those who may never have seen a crop of linseed I took this picture in the field next to my house this lunchtime. The flowers open in the sunshine and close at night. I have seen pigeons feeding on linseed in it's early stages but I have never had a decent bag over the crop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted June 25, 2014 Report Share Posted June 25, 2014 what are they growing it for..........oil .....linen......soil improver...the bee's.....do you know ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harnser Posted June 25, 2014 Report Share Posted June 25, 2014 If I remember correctly the blue flower is linseed for making linseed oil and the white flower one is flax used for making linen . Harnser Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich1985 Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 I have had some unreal sport over linseed and some brilliant bags unfortunately for me it isn't grown on my permission any more. Once had a 17 acre field that couldn't be combined because of the wet and it was still there in November, pigeons went barmy on that field for weeks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 Like a lot of things, the pigeons interest in linseed seems to vary from area to area and also depends on what alternatives are available. When I lived in north Kent I had some cracking bags over drilled linseed and again after harvest, but in south Kent the birds don't seem to be so interested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
la bala Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 There is a beetle that lives on linseed plants, if you crush one they absolutely stink of linseed oil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 Like a lot of things, the pigeons interest in linseed seems to vary from area to area and also depends on what alternatives are available. When I lived in north Kent I had some cracking bags over drilled linseed and again after harvest, but in south Kent the birds don't seem to be so interested. Your right there Cranfield ......We used to grow linseed and I would shoot a few when it was 4 or 5ins high and then nothing else , at that time we also grew Lucerne and the pigeons liked that more than the linseed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Harry Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 I had about 100 acres by my house last year and no pigeon action on it at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich1985 Posted June 27, 2014 Report Share Posted June 27, 2014 This is strange, you would think what 1 pigeon likes another would? If linseed was still grown on my permission I could gaurante pigeons. Can't say I've seen much in Norfolk now at all though. Interesting stuff!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitetail Posted June 27, 2014 Report Share Posted June 27, 2014 Pigeons tend to feed on linseed up until it's maybe 2-3 inch high and if your lucky enough if the farmer is late harvesting it then , when it was farmed around here it was block farmed and that's hard work . I've a fondness for linseed because it was the first crop I shot a hundred pigeons on with my air rifle . On the whole bags tend to be steady compared to peas or spring rape, I haven't seen it grown in the last five years or so , maybe with the black grass problem we're having and farmers having to grow three different crops it might be grown again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted June 27, 2014 Report Share Posted June 27, 2014 This is strange, you would think what 1 pigeon likes another would? If linseed was still grown on my permission I could gaurante pigeons. Can't say I've seen much in Norfolk now at all though. Interesting stuff!! Might be what other crops are in the area at the time the linseed is in that part of the world, through past expereance it was never a crop we looked forward to shooting any decent bags off . One year the field was under a good flight line and a lot of the pigeons I shot had no intension in going on the linseed but were drawn in to a good spread of decoys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cocknee Posted June 27, 2014 Report Share Posted June 27, 2014 I have Never shot a bag of pigeons over linseed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortune Posted June 27, 2014 Report Share Posted June 27, 2014 I have Never shot a bag of pigeons over linseed. me neither. just don't seem to want to know anything about it. Fro memory most of the linseed crops have just been mowed off as if it is some sort of break crop or something was wrong with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matty* Posted June 27, 2014 Report Share Posted June 27, 2014 Were i am located last year there were two feilds of linseed around 5 miles apart. One feild had hundreds on and my mate had some good bags. The other feild i did not see one pigeon on it at anytime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fisherman Mike Posted June 28, 2014 Report Share Posted June 28, 2014 There is a beetle that lives on linseed plants, if you crush one they absolutely stink of linseed oil. That was John Lennon and it was actually Marijuana... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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