The revenge of the stripey socks - a DFW adventure

Piquant_2

fayjmck wrote: »

Naughty captain!

Unix if you put the donkey in the soft top - you'd be OK:rotfl:

Slightly traumatised here - went home to help a pal get a couple of trees from the ones I have - her dog (somehow under a tiny part of the fence) got in with the chickens - both are OK I think. The damn mutt caught one though and its now got a very very bald patch on its bottom. No skin broken.

Whilst the chooks previously didnt mind the dogs outside the cage - now they don't like it.


Unfortunate I know - I think I truamatised them more my grabbing them by any means possible and holding them away from the dog til she caught it. The two clucked off ok when we finally got it sorted BUT when I left they had sat all close together in a corner of the fruit cage. I just hope they are OK - poor ladies. x

Poor little lady with a bare bottom :rotfl:Bless them, sure they'll be okay, but they probably won't lay you any eggs for a day or so!

Pippilongstocking

Inspecting chickens bottoms very closely for any potential damage - not the funnist thing in the world to do.

I fear I may be scarred for life - I never wanted to see any bit of a chicken THAT close up.

Pippilongstocking

Maybe I will call her bare bum barbara from now on.

Poor wee thing.

Piquant_2

fayjmck wrote: »

Inspecting chickens bottoms very closely for any potential damage - not the funnist thing in the world to do.

I fear I may be scarred for life - I never wanted to see any bit of a chicken THAT close up.

Being a vegetarian I may be missing the point here but don't you see a chicken's bare bottom when you roast them?

Lemon_Tree

if you're throwing toys out of the pram you must have been in my work place today, i came within a hairs breathe of telling one of my team exactly what i think about her and her attitude! Good job i left the office at lunch time.

I'd love chickens, OH would eat them out of eggs but i'd love some. not sure about the space though, but would love information about how much space they need.

Pippilongstocking

Piquant wrote: »

Being a vegetarian I may be missing the point here but don't you see a chicken's bare bottom when you roast them?

I know what you mean Piq - normally I am pretty strong about most things but this little chicken wasn't like the ones that sage and onion goes into. It was in my arms all wobbly, alive and breathing funny i feel so bad - the hole in the fence was tiny but the silly dog got through.

And - I now know where the eggs come out((((( - shudder-))))), as I see them as little henny folk I don't think of them as 'meat'. I was too busy looking for puncture holes and to see if it was ok poor lamb.

I may be going soft in my dotage!

Karmacat

Vegetarian here too, Piq and Fay - I'd like to keep chickens some day, for eggs - I think there's a covenant against it here, although my property is freehold.

What a traumatic day you had, Fay! Between the dog and the chickens and the little lad. My day was quite ordinary - computer work, then travelled to London to do my once-weekly stint there.

And now its the weekend!

Pippilongstocking

Karmacat wrote: »

Vegetarian here too, Piq and Fay - I'd like to keep chickens some day, for eggs - I think there's a covenant against it here, although my property is freehold.

What a traumatic day you had, Fay! Between the dog and the chickens and the little lad. My day was quite ordinary - computer work, then travelled to London to do my once-weekly stint there.

And now its the weekend!

KK I wonder if you can ask for some kind of dispensation that lets you keep them?? I haven't bought an egg since we got the ladies in September. I only got two because I guess we can use up /swap the egg production from 2 hens. I had six before at an old house and we were overrun with eggs - which in theory sounds great but it did get a bit time consuming washing them and putting them into boxes. BUT it is a good way of making decent extra money.

This morning I leapt out of bed to see the hens were OK only one hen in the hen run - paniced ran up garden in pj's and wellies.

Peered into the hen house expecting the worst.

And proceeded to traumatise the poor hen in the quietly laying an egg:rotfl:phew all the ladies are fine - but I am now ready for my morning coffee.

Islands are supposed to be stress free what a week.

Pippilongstocking

KK if you are reclaiming things in the garden etc - you might want to read The thrifty gardener by Alys Fowler.

She is passionate about making gardening cost almost nothing and recycling all sorts of things in the garden - we are going to try her idea of growing house plants from the store cupboard - seemingly you can grow chickpeas, chillis, coriander, sweet potatoes etc and a whole lot more. You might enjoy it for ideas?

I have only been to London twice in my whole life - once on the train for the day when we lived in Oxfordshire and once a couple years ago for the weekend to visit a pal. I have to say I did surprise myself by liking it very much.

Karmacat

Hi Fay.... if I was planning to be here long term, I probably would ask for a dispensation to keep chickabiddies.... but my plan, such as it is, is to pay off debts, become mega-wealthy by trading and s*d off around Europe and America in a camper van, then off to the rest of the world using hotels. I'll probably live somewhere else before I retire, but I'd never contemplate staying here permanently - just as an example of how hilly the area is, you can't see the house from the end of the back garden because the hill is so steep. Its a nightmare for oldies (I'm at a different life stage from you, can you tell? :rotfl:). Not that I'm there yet, but I'm seriously thinking about it.

The book sounds really interesting - I'm a big fan of permaculture and recycling/reducing, how do you mean tho, growing plants from the storecupboard - like, literally, having a daylight bulb in a cupboard and growing things in there? Sounds fascinating.

London - wow, you've only been there twice? I was a bit of a lost soul in my twenties, and its my theory that most people like that end up in London, at least for a while - if they're lucky, they find themselves and probably move on, tho not always.

Okay, thats enough hijacking of your diary!