The Irish Hare

[dodger 3,056]

Some spots I go there abundant others steady then there's places were you get oddens so the latter I leave alone as much as I can to bounce back no other option but if others don't do the same then it's a no goer, then there's the summer hunters n rifle lads at night but think one of the biggest threats to hares now is the buzzards seems to be wick them now all over the place now..

Edited May 1, 2016 by dodger

[WILF 48,307]

Hares def enjoy set aside .

I also believe intensive farming re pesticides and insecticides has a negative effect.

I agree mate, that definitely can't help.....also round my old area they never left headlands, it was all farmed right to the edge of the fields.

[WILF 48,307]

I do a bit metal detecting

Iv a load of permission that me and Pop detect

It's a arable farm that used chemicals

When digging down to a signal if you come across any worms they are thin sickly grey looking things

Same scenario on pasture that ain't seen chemicals and the worms are big fat healthy pink looking things?

And we eat what comes out that ground as well as the stuff blowing in the wind whilst they spraying getting in water supplies on our washing ect ect ect

And we wonder why cancer and ADH or whatever it is kids get nowdays .

I wholeheartedly agree mate, I have made the decision on the farm to keep chemical dosing to an absolute minimum.

And I dont use any chemicals on the veg, I just let nature take its course.

 

The next couple of weeks will see my first harvest of mutton and pork, along with the poultry that should see me not have to buy any meat again......it will be all home reared.

[WILF 48,307]

I have bred or reared rabbit, lamb, pork, goat, chicken and goose......just got turkeys in the baker waiting to hatch.

 

Need to get a bit of fishing in now and shellfish collecting and the jobs a good un;)

[WILF 48,307]

Get a decent size pond dug and stick it with

Trout

Good relaxing pastime and now and then a meal at the end of it.

But then there is the worry of teaching the kids the dangers of water .

No need mate, surrounded by good fishing......The Moy is only 20 minutes away and the Atlantic coast 45 minutes.

I am going to do a decent size pond on my other land but that will be for reared and wild ducks.

[AKA-BRINDLE 879]

Land i walk regular not far from me the owner had i think a English heritage grant...the whole lot was setaside...he made a big fuss about conservation...but the fact was his land held little in the way of wildlife...compered to neighboring arable farm land which had a healthy population of hares...this large area of setaside beacame a haven for fox...so much so he had to hire in guns to trim them out...the land where i see the highest concentration of Hares is all arable with a little cattle...i dont believe modern farming is a problem for Hares as they clearly prefer it among the crops...arable land that borders on woodland is where i see the most...good game keeping/predator management also helps imo...no coincidence that the highest number of Hares i see is on an estate where the gamekeeper has the most sought after digging dog in the district

[secretagentmole 1,701]

 

hundreds of them here,

just need a war on them rushes were their hiding.

im on the way lol....narrated by Mal Stevenson......someone would want to tell him he sounds like a right depressing c**t lol

 

Well we all know Packham is!

[AKA-BRINDLE 879]

Theres a couple of fair size rabbit warrens on that patch...one right on the border of the two farms...last night coming down there you can see all the rabbits feeding out on the crops...they prefer it among the crops imo

[trigger2 3,196]

i enjoyed that jigsaw. i found part interesting about where the easter bunny gets its name. i always wondered how it come about.