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Title: What A Week - Animal related!!!
Post by: prink13 on July 27, 2007, 12:33:56
What A Week
1st - One of my chickens dies :(
2nd - Found half a rabbit behind sofa - hubby threw it in kitchen bin!!!!! 2 days later - maggots all over kitchen and pantry floor >:(
3rd - Whilst removing a large baking tray from oven, heard a "knock knock knock" made me jump (nobody ever knocks at our door), burnt my arm, went to front door, nobody there - then I spot a Green Woodpecker sitting on my fence, knocking on the back of my little jam sales shelf unit! :o
4th - the episode with the stoat, culminating with me stood in road, calling my cat, with a pair of enormous BBQ tongs in my hand and covered in beetroot juice! Must have looked like I'd just massacred something, and was looking for the next victim!  ???
5th - My one remaining chicken has learnt to fly! So tonight I've got to clip her wings!

Be glad to have a nice quiet, hopefully uneventful, weekend!

Kathi ;D
Title: Re: What A Week - Animal related!!!
Post by: lorna on July 27, 2007, 14:39:29
OK Kathi have decided to avoid driving past your house in the next few day, you may have reason to be in the road with those enormous BBQ tongs :)
Happy/peaceful weekend to you and Jon.
Lorna
Title: Re: What A Week - Animal related!!!
Post by: prink13 on July 27, 2007, 15:05:14
Thanks Lorna, think I'll just try and avoid any animal exploits for the weekend!

Kathi
Title: Re: What A Week - Animal related!!!
Post by: OliveOil on July 28, 2007, 07:47:29
Ooo Kathi only clip ONE wing!!  If you want more chooks come to my place and take your pick, I have too many and wanting to cut down.
Title: Re: What A Week - Animal related!!!
Post by: Rosyred on July 28, 2007, 20:55:49
What a week sounds a bit like mine. Mean't to be going on holiday on Monday but my car broke down on Wednesday and I can't drive it at all and we use it to pull a trailler tent. The person who was going to look after the chickens can't now and I fell over a pushchair and hurt my knee. There is more but i'll leave it at that. :)
Title: Re: What A Week - Animal related!!!
Post by: prink13 on July 29, 2007, 17:32:10
OO, only clipped one wing, and kept her in the taller fenced area for a day, will let her run out tomorrow to check if clipping has worked - thanks for offer on chickens, but really want Orpingtons, so I can eventually sell offspring!

Rosyred - hope your week away goes OK, I know what you mean about a c ar to tow a trailer tent, we have a folding camper, and could no way tow it with our second car - it's a Smart Car!!!
Title: Re: What A Week - Animal related!!!
Post by: OllieC on July 29, 2007, 17:59:37
When I was a kid dad clipped all of our chickens wings. Both sides!!! He didn't know that this just makes them fly at 3 times the normal speed! hahaha. I can still remember these kamikaze chooks zooming about the place, completely out of control.
Title: Re: What A Week - Animal related!!!
Post by: prink13 on July 29, 2007, 18:19:19
Ollie C - LOL I love it, can picture it myself now! ;D
Title: Re: What A Week - Animal related!!!
Post by: Paulines7 on July 29, 2007, 20:24:20
Quote from: prink13 on July 27, 2007, 12:33:56
What A Week
........ 2nd - Found half a rabbit behind sofa - hubby threw it in kitchen bin!!!!! 2 days later - maggots all over kitchen and pantry floor >:( ...................

Kathi ;D

Now what is John doing hiding half a rabbit behind the sofa?    ???  I bet he tried to put the blame on your two lovely putty tats.   ::) ;D ;D
Title: Re: What A Week - Animal related!!!
Post by: prink13 on July 29, 2007, 20:40:24
Well Jon does have strange hobbies - but we rae sure it was Kahlua!! ;D
Title: Re: What A Week - Animal related!!!
Post by: OliveOil on July 29, 2007, 22:51:08
I have a black bantam orpington cockeral you can have he's gorgeous and was ringed but it fell off so couldnt give you his number as i didnt write it down.  he's as big as my LF orpington... but you cant have her as he is mums.

(http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j68/Aromagical/orp2_edited.jpg)

He's on the left, but much bigger now, photo taken about a year ago.
Title: Re: What A Week - Animal related!!!
Post by: prink13 on July 30, 2007, 10:25:37
MMmmmmm - now that does give me something to think about - Thanks, I'll get back to you by end of week one way or the other  :D

Kathi