Lapwing nest predation
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I haven't looked at the breakdown of figures. It's irrelevant really, but the information is readily available to anyone who wants to study it in more detail. But yes, "illegal" immigration is factored into the net migration figure.
My main point was that migration currently isn't having a significant impact on our food resources.
kevtherev
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Where I stated above 1950s style farming should be changed to low input farming as the point I was making was farmers in the 50s had limited access to chemical inputs.
That really didn’t come into widespread fashion until the 1960s 70s with the drive for production with capital grants for improvement and the vast changes that brought to uk agriculture as a whole.
Trends change patterns move.
I suggest you Google
"agrochemical use in the 1950s uk"
You might be in for a shock!
The 1950s were considered "the golden age" for pesticides, which were largely unregulated (think DDT for starters), and artificial fertiliser use was booming.
Are you sure that's what you want to go back to?
In the keepers shed defiantly, I know of Strychnine is a highly toxic, bitter, colourless crystalline alkaloid used primarily as a pesticide for small vertebrates. It is extremely dangerous and, if swallowed, inhaled, or absorbed, causes severe muscular convulsions, "awake seizures," and death by asphyxiation
Then all the other types from that era
kevtherev
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Most definitely not
Bit of Cymag could be useful though.
We didn’t use pesticides here in the 50s and barely use any agrochemicals or heavy amounts of fertilisers.
Mostly use muck and cycling of nutrients.
Low bought in inputs.
Non arable too so slightly different to other farming areas.
Its not a lack of food SD - its the idiots that waste so much and the regulations that also make so many businesses do the same
Chitterlings now your talking especially when heated up
Yep I used to have to clean them. 1/2" Thick peeled hazel stick thread on and clean then turn inside out and clean that side. Wash the hodge out and then plait the chitterlings put them in it and sew up. Mother used to cook it and we mainly had it sliced cold the next day with vinegar bread and butter. Preferred that to hot. Salting hams in a lead trough, saltpetre round the bones to keep the flies out and hang in the kitchen or washhouse.
Happy days, far less complicated all you needed was a warm place, clothes and good grub. Maybe a catty and half a dozen rabbit snares as well.
Your last post brings back a load of memories
Especially as a youngster helping my father deliver papers standing on thr running board of the car n calling at Mabel’s
Farm n being told to cut your own slice of smoked bacon which was hanging from a hook in oakbeam in the roof of the kitchen
Thing is Granny’s house was only half a mile away .
Also I’d never seen a single yolked egg until I was10 years old I thought all eggs were double yolked
Especially as a youngster helping my father deliver papers standing on thr running board of the car n calling at Mabel’s
Farm n being told to cut your own slice of smoked bacon which was hanging from a hook in oakbeam in the roof of the kitchen
Thing is Granny’s house was only half a mile away .
Also I’d never seen a single yolked egg until I was10 years old I thought all eggs were double yolked
Back to nests and eggs. Like most country kids I collected eggs, Lapwings were about in their hundreds. 5/- a doz from a posh bloke was what I got for their eggs, just took one from each nest. It took me a long while to get a carrion crow's egg and even longer to get a magpie's for my collection. Those days every farmer and keeper shot the nests out and we had songbirds everywhere.
Smellydog
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As a kid I use to climb to crow and magpie nests to tip them out. Dreys I would stab with a long blade. Had many a squirrel run across my shoulder but most left early where my mate was waiting to give chase with the air gun.
Hunted squirrel with bows too. My mate made new arrows one time and skewered a squirrel in a low hawthorn only for us to observe the squirrel chew the end of his arrow off before it's demise.
You are probably too young but used to get 1/- each for squirrel tails from Govt. Got better rates sometimes from Horace Friend at Wisbech, they paid well for Jay's wings and stoat tails as well.
Bo Diddley
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Jesus... I thought my Chromebook was fcuked, I don't know what you did crowkiller but you used several reams of blank paper in your post
Bo Diddley
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And we waste too much because it is cheap, and we consume too much as well. An easy life is a wasteful life.
crow killer
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I had trouble in replying, couldnt see it, bit strange ??, pressed post reply and nothing happened.Jesus... I thought my Chromebook was fcuked, I don't know what you did crowkiller but you used several reams of blank paper in your post
Ive just downloaded it as an audio book. Will give it a listen as I trundle around
Brad93
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I've just finished it today. Very sad and somewhat depressing.
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