Pigeons in osr?

[serf]

Do drones keep them off?

Pay per fly , win win

 

[Yogibear66]

First post here but my friend and I help reduce pigeon numbers on a couple of farms in Northumberland. He lives up there but as I live in N.Yorks we would be happy to help (and tip) from N.Yorks to Northumberland. Both of us are insured and discreet.

 

[Wilksy]

Managed 14 Saturday before they stopped coming, I’d say a flock of getting on for 1000 on some poor bugger else’s Rape off in the distance, flocks should start to break up mid feb and we can make some progress, and roost shooting, love shooting!

 

[quattro]

If someone could develop a spray that stops them eating osr they would make a mint

 

[Gormers]

Wondering if pigeon’s like conventional Osr better than hybrid?
My Ardvark getting hammered at the minute

 

[lloyd]

Wondering if pigeon’s like conventional Osr better than hybrid?
My Ardvark getting hammered at the minute

NO

 

[LH10]

Wondering if pigeon’s like conventional Osr better than hybrid?
My Ardvark getting hammered at the minute

They love my aurelia and PT303

 

[Gormers]

Got local lads organised to give the gray hoard’s a hammering today
Not a pigeon in sight…not seen one

 

[Renaultman]

Got local lads organised to give the gray hoard’s a hammering today
Not a pigeon in sight…not seen one

I think they all have the pigeon version of social media and put a post up when there's a gun about.

 

[DDD]

Pigeons have eased off a bit in the last 2-3 days. I don't know where they've gone, but i'm sure they'll be back. Is there less about this year??

 

[Gedd]

Just starting to come onto mine now been on everyone elses have a man comes on a morning fires a few shots and moves them on but getting persistant now

 

[thorpe]

Pigeons have eased off a bit in the last 2-3 days. I don't know where they've gone, but i'm sure they'll be back. Is there less about this year??

ill tell you where therve gone , here!

 

[Fubar]

Its so frustrating. Drilling late to avoid the csfb attacks, spent the autumn battling with slugs, you think you've got a half decent crop and then the feathered locusts arrive. We haven't even had a particularly cold winter. I dread to think what would happen if we had a sustained period of frosts.
Will be drilling early next year weather permitting. Any osr drilled early August round here looks brilliant, let alone the amount of N it will already have in its leaves compared to mine that has already had a dose of 'gold prills' to try and get it to grow away from the pigeons.

 

[Wilksy]

Seems particularly bad for pigeons this year, but as usual some fields get ignored others get hammered, flocks will start to break up in the next couple of weeks and hopefully be able to make a dint in them, 25 is the best I’ve done, keep them off for the day but push them to someone else’s

 

[Laggard]

Anybody know of any banger ropes for sale in Suffolk please?

 

[ajd132]

Nearly at it constantly here, putting out ropes, putting up rockets and kites. Keeping them off is absolutely vital especially with csfb larvae in the plants. If it gets eaten by pigeons it won’t grow back.
rape growing away nicely now and had 40kg/n last week. Hopefully be out of the woods in a few weeks.

 

[teslacoils]

Pigeons have eased off a bit in the last 2-3 days. I don't know where they've gone, but i'm sure they'll be back. Is there less about this year??

No there are loads.

If you've got maize game strips, get them topped and put a chap with an airgun in the hedge. He'll bag hundreds.

 

[DDD]

Seems particularly bad for pigeons this year, but as usual some fields get ignored others get hammered, flocks will start to break up in the next couple of weeks and hopefully be able to make a dint in them, 25 is the best I’ve done, keep them off for the day but push them to someone else’s

I see you wrote....... Some fields get hammered and some are ignored. What are peoples thoughts about the affect this has on yield ??

 

[Wilksy]

I see you wrote....... Some fields get hammered and some are ignored. What are peoples thoughts about the affect this has on yield ??

This is something I’ve wondered, obviously some graze it with sheep, and I get it’s losing the heart of the plant that knackers it but areas that pigeons have hammered never recover as well, I watched some pigeons last week, they left their roost and flew probably a half a mile over rape fields to get to one particular field, now if survival is about calories spent finding calories how is that natural? if you can stop them getting that foot hold on your field early on you’ll get less damage long term, I did it for a farmer on his peas, went and shot it every other day for a week, ended up they wouldn’t decoy and cleared off somewhere quieter, for good

 

[DDD]

This is something I’ve wondered, obviously some graze it with sheep, and I get it’s losing the heart of the plant that knackers it but areas that pigeons have hammered never recover as well, I watched some pigeons last week, they left their roost and flew probably a half a mile over rape fields to get to one particular field, now if survival is about calories spent finding calories how is that natural? if you can stop them getting that foot hold on your field early on you’ll get less damage long term, I did it for a farmer on his peas, went and shot it every other day for a week, ended up they wouldn’t decoy and cleared off somewhere quieter, for good

They have returned back to me again !!!!