Pile of dead earth worms

[Joe Boy]

Just out spraying and spotted this.

It's in a small gap in one row of the crop

This is the first chemical application since pre em roundup and butisan.

Any ideas what may have caused it?

 

[Joe Boy]

They are nearly arranged in a line were the front tine of my Claydon drill ran

 

[nick...]

Maybe a fox has puked up
Nick...

 

[spin cycle]

Maybe a fox has puked up
Nick...

+1...look like they've been eaten and excreted?

 

[Joe Boy]

Could be. It would have had to of found a good source of worms to eat they many. Or are the worms eating the fox sic and it was a on the strong side for them.

 

[Joe Boy]

Or could be a lovely badger eating all my worms. Won't get anywhere with the direct drilling if the badgers eat that many worms.

 

[Cutlerstom]

Just out spraying and spotted this.

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It's in a small gap in one row of the crop

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This is the first chemical application since pre em roundup and butisan.

Any ideas what may have caused it?

Yep, my guess is a badger spew

 

[Joe Boy]

Oh well. At lest it's nothing I've done. (Apart from being a bit lax in terms of badger control).

 

[Sonoftheheir]

What plants are they?

 

[crazy_bull]

What plants are they?

Borage, my bees are on holiday in Essex at the moment on borage but not sure if it's on your farm.

C B

 

[llamedos]

Fox or Badger vomit

 

[ridger]

If I ate all those worms is be sick to

 

[llamedos]

A good sign? at least the worms are there in volume enough for the varmit to gorge on enough to make its self sick.

 

[BigBarl]

looks like a very self-conscious fox with bulimia. Either that or it clearly didn't like the fox equivalent to the tape worm diet!?

 

[Chae1]

Was the field ploughed?

 

[Joe Boy]

No I ran my curved tine subs oiler in the autumn then Claydon drilled last week of May with the rape spoons.

 

[Exfarmer]

Do you harvest with a stripper? Went past a crop of borage the other day and thought it had been stripped

 

[Joe Boy]

No swath and then pick up with a draper pick up header.

 

[Robigus]

No swath and then pick up with a draper pick up header.

What part of Essex are you? There is some nice looking borage near Halstead.