Ping ****** EVERYONE*******

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Meep meep


Could this be the origin of the phrase to "give someone a ducking"? Although, when I last got ducked, it was celebrating a sailing victory rather than any gang rape. The chance for a gang rape doesn't arise often when you sail a single-hander.

So Just what do you do with your other hand?

 

[Crankarm]

No, that's definitely wrong. A Mallard is a type of duck, and a hen is a chicken.

It may be that Mallard drakes and ducks mate for life. On the other hand, Mallard drakes have been known to drown a duck they are trying to gang rape. Nature ain't cute.

I've been at my sister's, seeing the beauty of having a Sky box to record Oli's favourite programmes automatically. Whenever he fancies, he can see Chuggington or Peppa Pig or whatever. And I've almost learnt to operate the thing! I suspect he'd like Roadrunner et al too, although he is very train-centric.

I do know that a Mallard is a duck. My only error according to you is calling the female Mallard - a hen. Why would a Mallard mate with a chicken? Durrr ............!

The drake's glossy green head with white collar, yellow bill and deep chestnut breast is a combination not found in any other widlfowl. The female (hen) is a much plainer mottled brown. The Mallard is the ancestor of all farmyard ducks.

Who suggested nature is cute or are you trying to imply I am, which I haven't?

 

[Arch]

oh dear, sense of humour failure.....

I know what Anas platyrhychos looks like, thanks.

(and I knew and spelt that right without looking it up!) We did a whole module on the origins of modern domesticated species during my MSc.

Now, the Aurochs, there's an ancestor to be proud of...

 

[Norm]

Did you know that a mallard and hen mate for life? A mallard is very protective of his hen especially against other usurping mallards trying it on with his missus.

No, that's definitely wrong. A Mallard is a type of duck, and a hen is a chicken.

I do know that a Mallard is a duck. My only error according to you is calling the female Mallard - a hen. Why would a Mallard mate with a chicken? Durrr ............!

Well, I reckon you are both wrong.

Meep meep

 

[Crankarm]

Well, I reckon you are both wrong.

Meep meep

Heheheheheeeee...........

Nice one Norm.

.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

oh dear, sense of humour failure.....

I know what Anas platyrhychos looks like, thanks.

(and I knew and spelt that right without looking it up!) We did a whole module on the origins of modern domesticated species during my MSc.

Now, the Aurochs, there's an ancestor to be proud of...

Without injecting myself into a maelstrom of flying feathers, what and where from did Hens originate? (That's the Chucks what lay eggs for us Homo Sapiens and lay down their lives for our Sunday dinners)

 

[catalan chris]

kentucky??

 

[wafflycat]

Without injecting myself into a maelstrom of flying feathers, what and where from did Hens originate? (That's the Chucks what lay eggs for us Homo Sapiens and lay down their lives for our Sunday dinners)

If you are referring to 'domestic' chickens they originate from jungle fowl: Gallus gallus

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

If you are referring to 'domestic' chickens they originate from jungle fowl: Gallus gallus

Ah thanks Waffles - yes indeed domestic chickens. And Gallus gallus are endemic where in the world .............? Google, here boy, here

(No NOT Kentucky )

 

[Mille]

kentucky??

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Ah - Wikipedia has it that "conventional wisdom" says domestiction of Gallus gallus occurred in India but recent genetic evidence now has it that it happened in Vietnam 10,000 years ago.

 

[Arch]

If you are referring to 'domestic' chickens they originate from jungle fowl: Gallus gallus

For goodness sake, give me ten more minutes, I'd have got in first....

Waffles is right.

Introduced (to Britain) in a big way by the Romans, according to current archaeological evidence, probably not as part of the original Neolithic agricultural package - the big new thing was sheep, which were not native to the British Isles. They (the influx of people and/or ideas that brought agriculture to Britain) may have brought cattle too, but they could also have domesticated native Aurochsen. Pigs we already had, as wild boar, and the 'domesticated' pig didn't differ a huge amount from boar (just smaller - a typical feature of large domesticates) right up until the 18th C and the introduction of Far Eastern pig genes - the floppy ears and snub noses we see in most breeds today.

 

[Arch]

Oh, and the Romans also brought a few elephants to Britain, to impress the locals. How cool would it be if they'd gone feral....

 

[Dayvo]

Without injecting myself into a maelstrom of flying feathers, what and where from did Hens originate? (That's the Chucks what lay eggs for us Homo Sapiens and lay down their lives for our Sunday dinners)

Bloody 'ell, 26x25! Do you have boiled eggs for Sunday dinner?!

We'll have a whip-round for you!

 

[Dayvo]

Oh, and the Romans also brought a few elephants to Britain, to impress the locals. How cool would it be if they'd gone feral....

We wouldn't have noticed, Arch! They'd have gone underground!

In fact they may well have done!