Owens Nutrition Game Shooting Supplies

Game Shooting Supplies

	Game Shield
Use	A natural low cost product for adding to water to promote healthy game birds.
Ingredients
Usage	Add to water - cannot overdose
Description	As 70% of the immune system is associated with the gut wall it is essential to maintain gut health. By promoting a healthy gut flora, Game Shield Liquid helps maintain efficient feed digestion and intake, especially when birds are stressed by disease or adverse weather conditions.

	Holdgame
Use	Powerful game attractant to encourage birds to stay in feeding area.
Ingredients	Aniseed
Usage	1 litre per tonne of wheat or maize.
Description	In the period of change from highly palatable grower pellets, birds are tempted to wander. "Holdgame" counters this by giving wheat or maize a strong aniseed and spice aroma. This powerful attractant quality helps keep birds in the feeding area. Ideal for feeding in flushing areas like game cover.

	Supreme Game Mix
Use	A high quality all purpose game mixture providing full season cover.
Ingredients	1.50 kgs Sunflower 4.25 kgs Buckwheat 0.50 kgs Kale Seed (treated) 2.50 kgs Game Maize 1.00 kgs White Millet 1.50 kgs Linseed 2.00 kgs Forage Peas/Vetches 0.75 kgs Mustard
Usage	14.00 kgs per acre pack (31lbs/acre)
Description	Provides a range of food source to attract both big and small birds. Robust and varies in its cover production, making it a must for quality shoots. It is also eligible for wild bird cover under the set-a-side-scheme.

	Supreme 'pro' Shoot Mix
Use	A superb mixture, designed for rapid establishment at a sensible cost.
Ingredients	4.50 kgs Buckwheat 0.50 kgs Forage Rape 1.25 kgs Sunflower 0.25 kgs Kale Seed 1.50 kgs Linseed 1.50 kgs White Millet 3.00 kgs Forage Peas/Vetches
Usage	Seed Rate12.50 kgs per acre pack (28lbs/acre)
Description	An ideal choice for a limited budget or for larger shoots with many acres to seed. It creates a varied cover and provides a good mixture of food sources for all game bird types.

	Supreme Quinoa/kale Mix
Use	A specialist blend of hardy kale varieties, plus Quinoa.
Ingredients	1.00 kgs Quinoa 0.50 kgs Keeper Kale 0.75 kgs Thousand Head Kale
Usage	2.25 kgs per acre pack (5lbs/acre)
Description	Provides both excellent cover, plus a high protein feed source via Quinoa. Suitable as a game strip on the field margins of arable land. It can also be used for set-a-side. Our Supreme Quinoa/Kale mix is supplied in 5lb packs at a realistic seed rate, thus providing real value for money. It can be sprayed with a residual herbicide pre-drilling, but there is some risk to the Quinoa content

	Supreme Maize/millet Or Maize/sunflower Plus Sorghum
Use	Used to treat pre-emergence plus a surround or approach sowing of Sorghum at approximately 5 to 7 kgs per acre may be appropriate.
Ingredients	10.00 kgs Game Maize 3.00 kgs Sunflower or White Millet
Usage	3.00 kgs per pack
Description	A two or even three way optional mix or it can be sown with a 'surround' of Giant or Dwarf Sorghum. This mix produces an attractive approach cover. It is a very useful tall game cover mix. Any of the three species combine exceptionally well to create a warm and very striking cover throughout winter shooting months.

	Supreme Rapid Crop Mix
Use	This mix is an exceptional blend specifically designed to provide quickly established dense cover. A flexible sowing date from May to mid/late August. (Very useful to patch up early game blend failures). It can also double up as a livestock feed mixture, giving the user flexibility in planning covers and crops over an estate or farm.
Ingredients	1.25 kgs Forage Rape Seed 0.25 kgs Kale Seed (Treated) 0.50 kgs Red Clover 0.50 kgs Fodder Radish 0.25 kgs Green Globe Turnip 1.25 kgs Mustard
Usage	4.00 Kgs per pack (8.31lbs/acre)
Description	Exhibits good drought tolerancy. Shows versatility to broadcasting into standing cereal crops or onto winter barley/winter oats stubbles. The inclusion of fodder radish assists against Club Root, (brassicae sickness), thus boosting good establishment potential. Could be sprayed with a residual herbicide pre-drilling, with some risk to the clover.

	Supreme Extra Hardy Mix
Use	This mix is a proven game cover blend for harsher sites and very open locations. Ideally suited to sporting estates and shoots in the North and Scotland.
Ingredients	6.00 kgs Tic Beans 3.50 kgs Tares/Vetches 6.00 kgs Buckwheat 0.75 kgs Yellow Blossom Cover 6.00 kgs Triticale 2.25 kgs Linseed 0.50 kgs Hereford Kale
Usage	25.00 kgs per acre pack (56lbs/acre)
Description	A generous seed rate is recommended in order to ensure good crop cover on known sites where establishment is often difficult. Extra Hardy gives both excellent cover and a diverse food source for birds. Best sown from April to Late May and can be utilised for brooding.

	Supreme Nesting Mix
Use	This nesting mix is primarily for longer term use (minimum 2 to 3 years). Provides good accessible cover, particularly for small birds such as Partridge. Alternatively it can be sown around duck ponds and surrounding areas. Contains nectar producing plants that attract a range of inspect species compatible to small bird life.
Ingredients	0.75 kgs Sweet Yellow Blossom Cover 1.50 kgs Longer term Red Clover 1.00 kgs Crested Dogstail 0.75 kgs Canary Grass (P. Aquatica) 2.50 kgs Sainfoin 0.50 kgs Timothy Grass 1.50 kgs Cocksfoot Grass
Usage	8.50 kgs per acre pack (18.80lbs/acre)
Description	This mixture has a wide sowing window and can be sown from late March to early August. After full establishment, we advise a very light 'topping' at the end of year one. Post emergence weed control available.

	Supreme Small Bird Mix
Use	TA superb annual small bird mixture, ideal for Partridge and Quail.
Ingredients	0.50 kgs Jonty 5.50 kgs Linseed 2.00 kgs Mixed Millet Blend 3.75 kgs Tares/F. Peas Blend 0.25 kgs Stubble Turnip
Usage	12.00 kgs per acre pack (26.40lbs/acre)
Description	Produces an exceptionally good lower level cover that provides quality feed too. Easy to establish from late April onwards, over a range of differing sites and locations and is easily accessible to this type of game. This mixture provides an excellent varied food source throughout the shooting season. It gives reasonable winter hardiness, whilst allowing easy access and therefore protection to smaller bird species.

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