Certainly not Slugs

[davyw1]

Had a vissitor in a garden i am looking after

[davyw1]

[gavinjconway]

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

[saddad]

Sheep/Cattle can do a similar job...

[Digeroo]

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

[pumkinlover]

I thought that happened when they are going to flower?

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

Love that one GavinC!!

[davyw1]

A Rabbit with a very short life expectancy

[RobinOfTheHood]

My hens. Little buggers.

At least the yolks are a nice colour. 

[carolinej]

Looks like a strimmer has been at them

[taurus]

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]

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]

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

[davyw1]

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

[planetearth]

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

[Aden Roller]

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

Spot on I'd say.

Pigeon pie anyone?

[planetearth]

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

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

[davyw1]

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

[Robert_Brenchley]

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]

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

[davyw1]

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