Author Topic: Certainly not Slugs (Read 6256 times)

davyw1 · « **on:** November 20, 2012, 21:36:09 »

Had a vissitor in a garden i am looking after

gavinjconway · « **Reply #1 on:** November 20, 2012, 23:05:14 »

Looks like they have cabbage explosion syndrome.. or been nibbled by a rogue deer??

saddad · « **Reply #2 on:** November 21, 2012, 00:47:32 »

Sheep/Cattle can do a similar job...

Digeroo · « **Reply #3 on:** November 21, 2012, 06:40:19 »

All mine are netted against deer. We have problems with sheep sometimes too.

pumkinlover · « **Reply #4 on:** November 21, 2012, 07:23:24 »

I thought that happened when they are going to flower?

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Looks like they have cabbage explosion syndrome.. or been nibbled by a rogue deer??

Love that one GavinC!!

davyw1 · « **Reply #5 on:** November 21, 2012, 16:50:28 »

A Rabbit with a very short life expectancy

RobinOfTheHood · « **Reply #6 on:** November 21, 2012, 21:18:06 »

My hens. Little buggers.

At least the yolks are a nice colour.

carolinej · « **Reply #7 on:** November 22, 2012, 10:48:54 »

Looks like a strimmer has been at them

taurus · « **Reply #8 on:** November 22, 2012, 12:37:28 »

They look like the ones I forgot to put the net back on one evening when I had been weeding

Re net-ed and they did pick up. Pigeons in my case.

davyw1 · « **Reply #9 on:** November 22, 2012, 15:04:25 »

Quote from: taurus on November 22, 2012, 12:37:28

They look like the ones I forgot to put the net back on one evening when I had been weeding Re net-ed and they did pick up. Pigeons in my case.

Its a very tidy rabbit........for the time being

jimtheworzel · « **Reply #10 on:** November 23, 2012, 12:32:20 »

DIG EM UP and dump em, they have gone past there best !!

davyw1 · « **Reply #11 on:** November 23, 2012, 15:18:14 »

Nothing wrong with them Jim they will only get chopped up when they go in the pan, so will the rabbit

planetearth · « **Reply #12 on:** January 01, 2013, 08:07:01 »

That is pigeon damage. Stretch some pea netting over the cabbages, works a treat.

Aden Roller · « **Reply #13 on:** January 01, 2013, 17:38:21 »

Quote from: planetearth on January 01, 2013, 08:07:01

That is pigeon damage. Stretch some pea netting over the cabbages, works a treat.

Spot on I'd say.

Pigeon pie anyone?

planetearth · « **Reply #14 on:** January 09, 2013, 10:20:35 »

Agree with other commenters, that is without doubt pigeon damage.

Also agree with the pigeon pie suggestion - get an air rifle!

davyw1 · « **Reply #15 on:** January 09, 2013, 13:04:50 »

I hate to disagree about pidgeon damage since when could a pidgeon dig a hole for roots and and s***e carlings

Robert_Brenchley · « **Reply #16 on:** January 20, 2013, 19:42:34 »

It certainly looks like pigeon. What size are the diggings? Could you have rats or mice as well, or is it big enough for rabbits?

lottie lou · « **Reply #17 on:** January 20, 2013, 21:10:28 »

Could be badgers. Neighbour had a lovely bed of red cabbages with all the top half of the heads all neatly eaten.

davyw1 · « **Reply #18 on:** January 21, 2013, 08:41:05 »

Not Rats, not badgers, not mice, and not pigeons.
I can walk out of the gate of my allotment and look at multitude of wood pigeons sitting in the fields but they dont come onto the allotments.
Badgers cant get in because of the security fencing and my own fencing, also the are meet eaters not vegitarians so they dig up your garden looking for grubs
Mice, i have never known to eat mature cabbage but will trim the tops of your seedlings and vole will take the stalk as well.
Which makes me wonder about other threads on the subject of crop damage, where, for example pigeons getting the blame for damage being done by rats.
All animals usualy leave droppings where they have been eating so thats the first thing you look for.
They all eat in diferent ways a rat wont touch any veg top but will go along a row of beetroot or swede knoring a little out of each.
A rabbit will trim the top off any veg onion, leeks cabbages its no fussy but one thing it will always do is dig down for roots inbetween eating whats readilly availible and leave droppings.

So i am not assuming it was a rabbit i know it was a rabbit

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Author Topic: Certainly not Slugs (Read 6256 times)

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