Headless chicken
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- Location
- West Wales
Ours didn’t come up for 12/13 days. But you could easily find the seed
Maize 2022
- Thread starter pappuller
- Start date
dowcow
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- Location
- Lancashire
Mine went in on the 21st May and about half of it was showing 2 days ago. It should all be through by now. Weed is growing too.
More to life
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- Location
- Somerset
some contractors drill mighty deep 4" evenI can't find any seed
How deep does it get planted? There's moisture in the ground about an inch down
Jdunn55
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- Location
- Helston, cornwall
That might explain it, I didn't look very deep
I'll give it a week before I panic
Ours went in too deep in my opinion. But up in 9 days
ollie989898
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Absolutely no need for this in Somerset.
More to life
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- Location
- Somerset
depends how dry it is
ollie989898
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It's Somerset- it will rain sooner or later.
ridger
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- Location
- Tyrone, Northern Ireland
He might have planted the seed upside down
More to life
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- Location
- Somerset
but not always when you want it
frederick
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- Location
- south west
You don't want the rooks finding it too easy.
- Location
- North Norfolk
Also depends what dressing you have. As we are losing the bird deterrent dressings, drilling at 4" will be our only option if you do not want the seed eaten.
ollie989898
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Drilling it deep in my mind may risk a staggered germination which in some ways is worse for bird attack.
Will Blackburn
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- Location
- Cheshire
Squirrel attack is worse than bird IME.
More to life
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- Location
- Somerset
Saw on twitter a farm lost 15-20 acres to birds
Martyn
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- Location
- South west
f**king birds! Lovely even crop here couple days ago vast majority of 12 acres decimated.
ollie989898
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Cripes, I've seen bird damage but never every fudging seed from edge to edge like that.
Martyn
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- Location
- South west
Funny thing is iv not spotted a single bird on it
dowcow
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- Location
- Lancashire
Seem to be quite a few crows on mine when I go look at it. It has been a terrible year around here for crows on bales too from what I've heard. A few hours from baling and the bales are like pepper pots, but you can only shift so many an hour and if you have a hundred or so to shift they are going to get pecked unless you have a good fleet of trailers.
dowcow
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- Location
- Lancashire
Just returned from a walk around my maize. The noise of the crows as I approached meant I was dreading what I would find at the other side of the field. Actually.... no real crop loss at all. There were beak marks all over the place between the rows, but it looks like they've just been pulling the sods up. It was what I considered to be a terrible job of ploughing if not for a dose of glyphosate to kill the docks, shallow ploughed after grazing this spring, after being cultivated and harrowed a few times so lots of fluff wasn't buried even before the power harrow came along. Basically I wanted a lot of the old pasture to be mixed up with the FYM at a depth for the maize roots to grow into initially. It looks like that old turf is keeping the crows happy, and they are leaving the maize shoots alone, for now.