Back up at the shoot

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

Glad the guns appreciate all your hard work Stav Looks like it's going OK for you , long may it continue. 

[Stavross 16,085]

1 hour ago, FOXHUNTER said:

Glad the guns appreciate all your hard work Stav Looks like it's going OK for you , long may it continue. 

Cheers mate 

it has gone well, 2 more days in December and then they get a good rest from the 18th until the 8th of January so that will give me a bit of time to feed them where I want them, there’s a fair few woodcock come in on that moon

[Longshanx 833]

9 hours ago, shovel leaner said:

Looks like a great day Stavross . I do like the look of that pork and apple pie, I am reaching through the interweb  and nicking a virtual slice , and my word , it’s tastes as good as it looks !!!

I can assure you SL it was delicious, especially when accompanied by a nice port

[Baldcoot 2,352]

Just a heads up for them that do ,wheat just hit £240 a ton here

[BenBhoy 4,706]

31 minutes ago, Baldcoot said:

Just a heads up for them that do ,wheat just hit £240 a ton here

Christ that's some mark up! Avg price from ahdb end Oct/Nov is £188 delivered. I don't see why price so high as this years uk harvest is head & shoulders above last year.  

£240 seems especially high though mate, that's almost bread grade prices! 

Edited November 22, 2021 by BenBhoy

[Stavross 16,085]

The price of fert has doubled, milling wheat isn’t  a kick in the arse off 300 quid now, some one told me last week where they are that oilseed rape tipped 600

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

Yep I was speaking to a farmer telling me he paid 300 quid for fertiliser in the Spring and said that was daylight robbery but glad he got it as now quoted £700 

[Baldcoot 2,352]

10 hours ago, BenBhoy said:

Christ that's some mark up! Avg price from ahdb end Oct/Nov is £188 delivered. I don't see why price so high as this years uk harvest is head & shoulders above last year.  

£240 seems especially high though mate, that's almost bread grade prices! 

They're all blaming shortage this ,lorry driver that Ben I'm afraid profit is all they want and bugga everything else

[Stavross 16,085]

Back up to feed today after the weekend shoot, I didn’t see massive amounts of birds but there was birds in all the feed areas and they were on the feed as soon as I put it down, I’ve put another ( special ) feeder out with the camera on it, FH will know what this is for

there’s a few fallow knocking about early now the weather seems to have turned, there was a definite chill in the air when I was there today 

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

Great stuff mate , were those fallow near the special feeder ?

[Stavross 16,085]

4 minutes ago, FOXHUNTER said:

Great stuff mate , were those fallow near the special feeder ?

Yeah, I’ve put it at the top of the ride over the piggeries, stepped out into the field and they were about 90/100 yards to my right on the ruff side of the piggeries, it was only about 3:15

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

42 minutes ago, Stavross said:

Yeah, I’ve put it at the top of the ride over the piggeries, stepped out into the field and they were about 90/100 yards to my right on the ruff side of the piggeries, it was only about 3:15

Good to see , forecast is awful for the weekend , 40 mph gales

[Stavross 16,085]

Yeah, it doesn’t look good, I’ll be back feeding probably early Saturday morning so I’ll check the camera, hopefully there will be a few on it

[Dervburner 2,549]

With this bird flu, and regulations coming on the 29th, I’ve knocked the larsens off for the moment. Still getting plenty of squirrels so need to get round to setting a couple of feeders up. Pop goes another weasel ..........

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

Just popped out for an hour local and called this nice big dog fox in with the hare call. Only playing for a minute and he just appeared at caller , never saw him come in