Mole Soil

cemetary · February 10, 2016

How many guys have given this to the birds and what benefit do you think it gives the birds. :smiling-scarecrow-329:

yeboah · February 10, 2016

How many guys have given this to the birds and what benefit do you think it gives the birds.

Alf baker used to bag it and take it home to his Doos if he was working in country sure he was a glazier ?

Never tried it but used to take 100 s of moles out of old mans traps

Kyleakin Lofts · February 10, 2016

I've never given it, but know of some that do. I've heard they really like it, so if nothing else it keeps them happy and contented. Plenty of mole hills in the next field from my loft.

Delboy · February 10, 2016

Used it all the time at my last loft location which was in the middle of a field. The doos seem to find what they need out it m8.

tomd · February 11, 2016

Used it all the time at my last loft location which was in the middle of a field. The doos seem to find what they need out it m8.

Hi Del Leen Boers was a great believer in using this-he used to fill a nest bowl with the soil and put it in the loft

Delboy · February 11, 2016

Hi Del Leen Boers was a great believer in using this-he used to fill a nest bowl with the soil and put it in the loft

Seemingly it contains natural antibiotics but im not sure about that. My grandfather used to ask me to go and collect the newly formed mole lum, that's what they called it then.

paddymac · February 11, 2016

A lot of the old fanciers swore by it and the benefits it had on their birds. Sadly very few mole hills here in our local area.

philg50 · February 11, 2016

Funnily enough,a mole has started throwing up lums across some grass bank at the back of my garden ,my dad when he was alive was a keen gardener and collected the earth for the greenhouse he said it was full of the stuff to enrich young plants ,stuff being i suppose minerals to us ,i never used it for the birds and dont suppose i will but it is a coincidence.

harry h · February 11, 2016

I collect it and put it into an oven proof dish into the oven at 120 for about

an hour or so to dry it out, then mix it 50/50 with some grit my birds love it.

hotrod · February 11, 2016

My old man used to get it for the garden ,he had cuts of 4/5inch clay pipes about 2ft long stood them on end around 20 of them filled them with the mole soil and grew his carrots in them for showing ,he said it had no stones in it so the carrots would grow nice and straight , he changed it every year with the old stuff scattered around the garden .

Roland · February 11, 2016

Fantastic. I have a couple of 3 x 3 foot boards. I fetch some in a sack and spread on the boards. Pigeons go mad for it. (Couple with grated lemon as good as you will get .... and is free. After about 3 days I re - sack it and take it back. Have no room on garden now, which is very good for it. Once a week is ampful.... birds tell you when finished with.

lanarkshire lad · February 11, 2016

I have some stock pigeons that get out into an aviary ive seen me getting some soil from the flower bed and giving them it in a pot but I stopped that I was feart incase a fox or cat was pissing in it so I stick to the clay blocks.

Roland · February 11, 2016

I think I would do the same I did with the baths lanarkshire lad. Leave on a board in the aviary. I released all my stock - birds when I was building this loft.... catching and basketing them because I was still in the throes of building etc. Was Mid April and due to the weather I was way behind.

William Reid · February 12, 2016

Hope I'm not the only one :emoticon-0136-giggle: . I have never ever heard any of the old and some great fanciers I have known over the years discuss/talk about Mole Soil .

Roland · February 13, 2016

Aye Billy, be that as it may :emoticon-0136-giggle: But many did. Ceratinly those in or near the countryside who knew something.... and didn't waste good money on money making concerns lol.

dunc50 · February 13, 2016

Hope I'm not the only one . I have never ever heard any of the old and some great fanciers I have known over the years discuss/talk about Mole Soil .

what a load of old wifes p... mole soil dear me, the fancy can come up with some crackers, :emoticon-0136-giggle:

Roland · February 13, 2016

Why do sea - gulls etc. follow the plough? Mind most if the land is dry.

Bird brain eh! Makes one wonder just who processes as such.

Of course in dry weather Worms are no where near the top. Besides that the amount of sea gulls / birds covering the ground would mean that they would have to share 1 between 20 birds lol

Soil salinity is the salt content in the soil; the process of increasing the salt content is known as salinization.[1] Salts occur naturally within soils and water. Salination can be caused by natural processes such as mineral weathering or by the gradual withdrawal of an ocean. It can also come about through artificial processes such as irrigation

Salinity from irrigation can occur over time wherever irrigation occurs, since almost all water (even natural rainfall) contains some dissolved salts.[2] When the plants use the water, the salts are left behind in the soil and eventually begin to accumulate. Since soil salinity makes it more difficult for plants to absorb soil moisture, these salts must be leached out of the plant root zone by applying additional water. This water in excess of plant needs is called the leaching fraction. Salination from irrigation water is also greatly increased by poor drainage and use of saline water for irrigating agricultural crops.

Hence why Mole hills are thrived upon. :emoticon-0137-clapping:

One only has to see the results when turning over the earth in a chicken run ... No worms etc. But they go mad for the salt, the minerals etc. Struth!