rikki
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tdr1nka said:There's a few old regulars who've gone missing of late.
All the more tea for us then!!
I'm not old, or a regular.
More tea please.
Tea? (Part 1)
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I'm not old, or a regular.
More tea please.
rikki
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wafflycat said:
How close did they get?
I've kept [domestic] geese, and they would make light work of a couple of cats.
The smart thing for a goose would be to fly away. But if something is on their territory, they will have a go.
Cats aren't stupid either, so they wouldn't stick around for a fight when they could get hurt.
wafflycat
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rikki said:
Within a few yards. It was *hilarious* to watch. The felines had distinct delusions of grandeur. Mind you one of the felines weighs only six-pounds and yet she *knows* that if only she could get her, now almost fangless, jaws clamped on that deer's jugular, she'd have it. She would... she knows it. She chased it up the entire length of the field at the back of the house, which is several hundred yards long. She's the same one who leapt out of a first floor bedroom window to take out a male pheasant... She also put the fear of god into a nearby dog... She also chased a heron away from *her* stream... Yet none of my cats bothers the two hens, nor the normal garden birds (small rodents being the preferred prey).
wafflycat
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- middle of Norfolk
Morning all! Tea's up! Toast on the go...
wafflycat
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- middle of Norfolk
Hens now fed, watered and henhouse cleaned out. Felines fed & watered. Husband fed & watered. Student son still snoring...
Amanda P
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- York. Well, York-ish...
longers said:Excellent mouse that Uncle Phil.
Is it true that mices are pretty much incontinent and wee all the time?
I don't know if they wee all the time. They usually wee when handled... but then I might do that if I was in the grip of a creature <pauses for calculation> four thousand times my size.
Well, woodmice do anyway. Harvest mice, they're just like, whatever, man. Bring it on. Hey, do I look OK? Are my whiskers straight?
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Uncle Phil said:
You met my mouse then?
He also said, "of course I can swim" and "admire my round tummy"
Amanda P
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... and yes, tea would be splendid, ta.
We had chickens for a bit. No problems with them and the cat or the dog. They just stared them down. They were a bit wild, though (the chickens, not the cat or dog) and wouldn't go to bed in their coop. One snowy day a fox came and killed them all. It buried one in the compost heap and another in the vegetable patch; the other two were never seen again. It was a sad day and we've never got around to having any more.
If we're not going to be away from home this spring, we might try another batch. We'll try and find some that are a bit more used to living in a run/coop. The last lot came from my duck-rearing mate's place... the chickens there have the run of a fox-proof-fenced field of about four hectares, so they didn't like being in a run and insisted on roosting in the bushes, not in their nice safe shed.
We had chickens for a bit. No problems with them and the cat or the dog. They just stared them down. They were a bit wild, though (the chickens, not the cat or dog) and wouldn't go to bed in their coop. One snowy day a fox came and killed them all. It buried one in the compost heap and another in the vegetable patch; the other two were never seen again. It was a sad day and we've never got around to having any more.
If we're not going to be away from home this spring, we might try another batch. We'll try and find some that are a bit more used to living in a run/coop. The last lot came from my duck-rearing mate's place... the chickens there have the run of a fox-proof-fenced field of about four hectares, so they didn't like being in a run and insisted on roosting in the bushes, not in their nice safe shed.
spandex
I love Dr D
I have just got back from shopping with Mickle and it was hell. But the best bit was when over the tannoy comes a message saying can all the costumers make shore you have the right trolley. Mickle
Mickle
spandex
I love Dr D
But I need tea
*thank you mickle* and yes the sweets are mine
*thank you mickle* and yes the sweets are mine
Mickle
wafflycat
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Uncle Phil said:
If I may humbly suggest you consider getting some ex-battery hens? Mine are *prolific* layers, love scratching about in the garden and have no problem sleeping in a henhouse at night. When you first get them, they are *pathetic* creatures, often de-beaked and minus many feathers (so so much so, that they are referred to as the 'oven readies'), plus they've never seen the light of day until the day you get them and are used to (regretfully) being locked in a space so small they can't move much at all. Once you get them and they are introoduced to a more free-raneg way of life, they quickly develop normal hen behaviours and become real characters.
spandex
I love Dr D
It was grate I was meeting him at the till and was just about to put some sweets the there when I spotted that the trolley he had was twice the size and had no beer in so
me "mickle where is our trolley?"
mickle "ther... S**t where is it"
so we go hunting to find a small kid standing just by our one
kid " did you take a big trolley"
mickle and I pause
er er er
mickle "I may of done"
kid "can I have it"
mickle "i'll tell you I will go and get it for you"
then over the tannoy comes a message saying can all the costumers make shore you have the right trolley
mickle runs off and comes back bending down to the kid saying "do not tell any one it was me"
me "mickle where is our trolley?"
mickle "ther... S**t where is it"
so we go hunting to find a small kid standing just by our one
kid " did you take a big trolley"
mickle and I pause
er er er
mickle "I may of done"
kid "can I have it"
mickle "i'll tell you I will go and get it for you"
then over the tannoy comes a message saying can all the costumers make shore you have the right trolley
mickle runs off and comes back bending down to the kid saying "do not tell any one it was me"
tdr1nka
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LOL!!
I stood in a 'baskets only' line with a trolly piled high and wondering why people were either looking at me sternly or laughing.
This was in an American supermarket in the Eighties and I'd never encountered this sort of thing at my local Tesco at home.
I stood in a 'baskets only' line with a trolly piled high and wondering why people were either looking at me sternly or laughing.
This was in an American supermarket in the Eighties and I'd never encountered this sort of thing at my local Tesco at home.
Amanda P
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wafflycat said:
Having read your numerous posts on the subject, that was the very thing I had in mind to do. We only took the duck man's hens because they breed all over the place and he had more of them at the time than he knew what to do with. (And there was one he was afraid of - she went for him every time he tried to take her eggs).
And for all other chicken-related advice, I know where to find The Oracle.
If we do this, can you suggest any other witty battery-related names? Did you ever have a Di, for example?
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