Author Topic: Chickens (Read 8869 times)

teresa · « **Reply #20 on:** November 13, 2003, 23:07:01 »

Oh Colin what a shame, I know vet fees can be expensive but a good vet will let you pay over so many months if the bill is large.
Also their is the PDSA if your a pensioner on your own etc you can get free treatment and all they ask is a donation. You can pick up a form from the local vets.
If all else fails their is the RSPCA will help.
So no need to have an animal suffering does not matter what animal you have cat,dog mice or chickens you have to have commitment for them and you know when they are not well.
I knew a woman years ago who thought more of her pets then of her children. Yep it takes all sorts.
Teresa

Palustris · « **Reply #21 on:** November 15, 2003, 13:42:18 »

At last the ducks have been persuaded to leave their pen and wander the great outdoors and here they are.

Mrs Ava · « **Reply #22 on:** November 15, 2003, 20:13:23 »

Okay, good duck story! A neighbour of my nan and gramps in rural Devon built a wee water feature in their small backgarden. She is a real bird lover and always lays on a delicious spread for our feathered friends, when low and behold, one day, a pair of ducks arrived to feast. A few weeks passed, and they became regular visitors to her water feature, and they decided to call it home! Within days, a nest had been built in the herbacious border, and before she knew where she was, she had mum, dad and 9, yes I said 9, ducklings waddling around her (small) garden! You can imagine the state of her ornamental water feature with all those guys in it! They still visit daily for lunch and supper, arriving in V formation through the sky, all 11 of them.

tim · « **Reply #23 on:** November 15, 2003, 21:06:58 »

OK - chickens, ducks - just come to Bourton-on-the-Water for ducks - they start out with 10+ chicks each and when you look again, there's only one? - sad life? - but to the point - 'Birdland' is one of the local attractions - when (now almost 50ish) daughter ( then about 6) was leaving the then school in our village, a MACAW dropped onto her shoulder - and wouldn't leave - and she became a very honoured person!!

Next? - Tim

Colin_Bellamy-Wood · « **Reply #24 on:** November 15, 2003, 23:19:26 »

Eric, thank you for the photo of your beautiful ducks. My NDN would be so envious if he could see them - yours put his in the shade.

EmmaJane, what a lovely story about your grandparents neighbour. It must be a magnificent sight to see them flying, and even more exciting to know that they are flying to them for lunch. They are so lucky.

Palustris · « **Reply #25 on:** November 15, 2003, 23:45:12 »

Taken a while but they have now found one of our ponds and spent the afternoon clearing it of duckweed. Fortunately they decided that they would go back in their pen at dusk. They don't half make a mess of their water. Interesting to see if they manage to find the big pond. We have hundreds of wild ducks flying over (the Shropshire meres are only a few miles away), but have only seen them on the pond once and found an abandoned clutch once. (Yes it was abandoned, we kept an eye on it, but the eggs disappeared one night.) Still would like another female though.

teresa · « **Reply #26 on:** November 16, 2003, 00:29:08 »

Oh Eric the photo is lovely the drakes are beautiful and you want more lovely.
Emma that was a lovely story of your nan and her ducks.
Teresa

legless · « **Reply #27 on:** November 16, 2003, 13:24:16 »

i would love chickens but they're too much of a commitment at the moment. also a bloke down our lotties lost 60 chickens and 12 ducks to vandals last week, all in one night. i won't go into the details, its absolutely horrific what the people did but it certainly makes you think carefully about the security of the site. his plot backs onto some houses, i can't believe no-one heard anything.

beautiful ducks eric!

MagpieDi · « **Reply #28 on:** November 16, 2003, 15:10:12 »

Unbelievable!....Legless.... a fox, yes, but vandals , very sad and shocking. I just can't understand why?? for God's sake do they attack harmless creatures?

teresa · « **Reply #29 on:** November 16, 2003, 15:56:49 »

I blame the parents and schools for not educating youngester in the joy of haveing a pet and understanding animals in general.
A fish in a tank is fine and looks pretty, but for a child it has to touch a animal and feel the heart beating to appriciate the importance of life in all things living.
I remember my son now 30 comming home as a child from boys brigrade saying why do we eat Gods creatures. Being a farmers daughter found it hard to explane to him and it took a while believe me. Because we had a dog,cat and 6 hens at the bottom of the garden.
The schools should take children to a farm to pet the animals and so should parents on a regular basics. The next generation would be better off for it.
Legless did the police/RSPCA get involved the vandles should be sent to a farm to work as a sentence they might learn something.
As for the people in the houses people are too frightened to go out when its dark thats the real shame of times to come. If they had done some may have been saved.
Teresa

legless · « **Reply #30 on:** November 16, 2003, 19:17:17 »

the police are involved and its been on the front page of the two local papers but i doubt they'll catch them. they have appealled for witnesses pointing out that the people who did it must have been scratched to bits.

i understand what you're saying about fear keeping people inside, it is a very sad state of affairs.

busy_lizzie · « **Reply #31 on:** November 16, 2003, 19:27:02 »

Jo, Saw the article in the local paper and was shocked and digusted by what went on. Can't believe any sane person could be so sick and warped as to kill those poor birds in that way. It knocks your faith in human nature, and must have been devastating for the poor plot owner. What a horrible thing for him to have to face. It goes beyond vandalism doesn't it? busy_lizzie

legless · « **Reply #32 on:** November 16, 2003, 19:37:52 »

i just can't imagine what was going through their heads. and that poor bloke to turn up in the morning to that.... i see him quite often and i just don't know what to say to him.

i love to see the chickens down the allotments, i really hope i can have some soon (hubby has promised that when we move next i can have some land and some livestock!!)

Colin_Bellamy-Wood · « **Reply #33 on:** November 16, 2003, 22:08:11 »

Jo, when you can get round to speaking to the poor fellow, would you add our commiserations to yours.

As in the G&S Mikado, the authorities should make the punishment fit the crime - but of course, they are too weak minded.

legless · « **Reply #34 on:** November 16, 2003, 23:10:16 »

i will do that colin. :)

jethro · « **Reply #35 on:** November 17, 2003, 12:17:26 »

I keep livestock and have done for the past 6 years, and you expect to lose some to the fox.
The same thing happened to me i lost 60 hens, 30 ducks, 3 goats and 6 geese in one night. The police said they must have had at least a transit van, and yes no one saw or heard anything. It is sickening but you just have to get on with things and grin and bear it.

Doris_Pinks · « **Reply #36 on:** November 17, 2003, 15:53:28 »

I was talking turkey to the farmer I get my Christmas goose from. She was saying that they keep the turkeys on a different farm to the one they do business from, because it has been known elsewhere for the whole lot to disapear into a truck overnight...... >:(

jethro · « **Reply #37 on:** November 18, 2003, 15:25:08 »

Saw a good one driving to work, i decided to go the scenic route, and near a farm a woman had 2 hens out for a walk with leashes on them :o i tell you i nearly crashed the car. Now i like livestock but to take them for a walk :-/ , please get a life.

Tenuse · « **Reply #38 on:** November 19, 2003, 00:05:59 »

We walked past a farm a little while ago, which had alpacas on it - quite a head turner!

Didn't know you could "grow" llamas in Sheffield!

Ten x

Doris_Pinks · « **Reply #39 on:** November 19, 2003, 00:23:34 »

We have a large Llama farm near here, they look really amusing as a herd in a field, sorry but they always seem to have a haughty air about them! (gone right off them after being spat at by one I was feeding!)
And Jethro as for leads, my kids take their Guinea Pigs for walkies on a lead.........puuulllllllleeeeaaasssee! Poor things, luckily they just sit there and nibble grass so the novelty wore off! ;D

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