i made more out of charging for pigeon control than i did the crop this year !
no shortage shooters willing to pay
Is there any skill in growing an economically viable crop of OSR?
- Thread starter richard hammond
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i made more out of charging for pigeon control than i did the crop this year !
no shortage shooters willing to pay
ollie989898
Member
This forum is near plagued by people looking for land to shoot pigeons, rabbits and air guns on. Yet folk complain about having to control rats and pigeons?
You couldn't make it up. I've have the place virtually patrolled 24/7 by armed folk.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
£20 quid a day they can come whever they like. Metal detectors too. It's leisure, not a service.
ollie989898
Member
Sounds fair enough to me. I'd insist they were insured and would only allow a select bunch to be present.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
I'd insist on a copy of their insurance, a reference, and would limit number and spread them out. Detectorists would have a maximum area a day. Plenty of temporary grass here now.
paid for a good family ski holiday last year, hard to believe anyone give this away !
i take photocopy of gun licence and suitable insurance in exchange for a permit and map
too cheap - they pay £50 a day pass or £75 for a weekend, have a waiting list
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Do you advertise it on the pigeonshootingforum?
- Location
- East meath/dublin
Fucck me !! Dont worry about the beetles get the pigeon feed drilled .
With that many sheep waiting to be sheared at 50 a day who cares if it never makes the combine !!!!
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Fucck me !! Dont worry about the beetles get the pigeon feed drilled .
With that many sheep waiting to be sheared at 50 a day who cares if it never makes the combine !!!!
I bet folk would pay you £25 to come and shear a couple of sheep.
lloyd
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
£70 ha on pigeon control you've been done over!
Most people make money out of this .
Looks like your true costs of growing OSR would make
interesting reading .
lloyd
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
Shhh
ollie989898
Member
Drill some volunteer OSR and some barley in a cover crop mix. Throw wheat around like it's going out of fashion (screenings from drier be great). Get paid for folk to shoot off it.
Spray off crop in spring and put barley in. There you go, double cropping...
I have a friend who went all over Somerset shooting crows and pigeons off crops for me. He always said he didn't understand people paying to shoot driven game.
Spray off crop in spring and put barley in. There you go, double cropping...
I have a friend who went all over Somerset shooting crows and pigeons off crops for me. He always said he didn't understand people paying to shoot driven game.
lloyd
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
You need to cover your own back with your own insurers too!
3rd party liability that most businesses would have covers you I would imagine
most shooters are covered by membership of BASC and CPSA etc
lloyd
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
Had this conversation with my insurers and ended up paying a small
premium to make sure .
Check the detail of what the BASC covers my insurers weren't happy that
it covered everything.
How have I been done over?! I’m taking into account all of the time we spend chasing pigeons in the winter, and the money we spend on rope bangers etc. Time is not free. Maybe I’m one of the few who actually take things like this into account? My true costs are minimal. Farm saved seed, total 180kgs N, kerb, a gramnicide for volunteers, 1 fungicide, glyphosate, pigeon scaring, direct drill, roll with a dose of slug pellets from the rolls.
lloyd
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
Simple why are you spending £70 ha on pigeon control?
You have this down as an expense when properly managed it
could be an income.
Because looking after a large osr from pigeons takes a lot of time, some years are worse than others. £70 is absolute max But I would rather err on the side of caution than ignore blatant costs.